Yotta partners with Piql for long term information preservation service

Data centre firm Yotta Infrastructure said it is partnering with Norwegian data storage technology developer Piql to introduce this service in India. Yotta Preserve will work with the government, industry and museums and the movie industry to provide a long-term storage solution that will allow them to indefinitely store information.

“Different industries require to archive data for future reference. Yotta Preserve - powered by Piql can store analog, digital, video, audio, manuscripts, and every form of content available on earth. Yotta Preserve delivers the best of both worlds, data archived can be secured physically and accessible digitally”, said Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO, Yotta Infrastructure. The data would be stored using the technology solution from Piql at Yotta’s data centre in Mumbai.

Piql uses a photosensitive film to store digital information that can survive for any length of time. He said that this is the only data storage service that is offline, digital, and migration-free and also uses photosensitive film – piqlFilm - to store data.


The service will allow users to archive information at the Arctic World Archive (AWA) in Svalbard, a declared demilitarized zone by 42 nations and one of the safest places on earth.

AWA is home to manuscripts from the Vatican Library, political histories, masterpieces from different eras (including Rembrandt and Munch), scientific breakthroughs and contemporary cultural treasures.

Piql’s film-based preservation technology has been tested to last for centuries with guaranteed future accessibility. This means that no matter what technology is available in the future, all preserved films will be restored in authentic form and quality, said Rune Bjerkestrand, Managing Director of Piql.

Piql has already worked with some government organisations in India and the partnership will allow it to reach out to more customers through Yotta. The technology ensures that the archived data is unalterable and secure, he said. While the data is stored in physical mode and additionally is searchable just like a digital storage medium.