Digital Bedrock

05/04/2026

Thank you Thomas Coughlin for visiting at . We always enjoy your insights and observations.

NAB featured content preservation, digital storage solutions and cloud services and storage to support the growing needs of the media and entertainment industry.

03/25/2026

Today’s NPR Marketplace Tech segment on “Why digital archiving is more than store and ignore” features the second part of an interview with CEO Linda Tadic. In this segment, she explains basic aspects of digital preservation. There’s a nice shout-out to Puerto Rico public broadcasting station WIPR and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at the end.

Digital archivist Linda Tadic at Digital Bedrock explains why you should regularly maintain your digital media and shares her success and horror stories as a digital archivist.

03/03/2026

NPR’s Marketplace Tech segment on “Digital Archiving and the Global Memory Shortage,” featuring an interview with Digital Bedrock’s CEO, Linda Tadic.

Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes speaks with Linda about how the rapid construction of data centers, driven by tech companies rushing to power their AI models, is contributing to a global data storage media and memory shortage. You can listen to Part 1 here: https://tinyurl.com/2me87uzr

Part 2 is scheduled to air later in March and will focus on digital preservation and the work we do to protect client data.

AI data centers are buying up a lot of the world’s supply of computing memory, causing a global shortage. That’s having an effect on digital archiving efforts.

02/13/2026

Preservation Strategies for Film and Digital Media

Thursday, February 26, 2026
6:00 PM 9:00 PM

The SMPTE Hollywood Chapter is holding two events on film and digital preservation in February and March. These events are FREE and you do not have to be a SMPTE member to attend. The audience should include archivists, engineers, technologists, post-production, creators, and others. Speakers for the Thursday, February 26th, event on Film & Digital Preservation include CEO, Linda Tadic. Both events are being held at the Culver Theater: 9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA. Come join a lively discussion!

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Industry experts will discuss archiving, restoration, and other aspects of media preservation.

02/04/2026

Digital Bedrock is excited to sponsor the Digital Preservation Summit 2026. On Thursday, Feb. 5th, Linda Tadic will present a session on “Building Sustainable Digital Preservation Programs” from 9:55AM-10:15AM PST. Register with the code DB50 to get 50% off the conference fee: https://tinyurl.com/2mmhsry8

01/27/2026

What’s the difference between backup, archiving, restoration, & preservation? They’re related, but serve different purposes. If you’re attending the HPA Tech Retreat, join Linda Tadic at a breakfast roundtable to discuss this topic on Tuesday February 17. She’ll lead the discussion, but the focus of this morning chat is for attendees to learn from each other. More information at

The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management, and dissemination of content.

01/22/2026

We’re honored to be a sponsor of the Henry Stewart DAM and Museums and Digital Preservation Summit 2026: This annual online event brings together museum professionals from around the world to discuss how they manage and preserve digital assets at their organizations. Linda Tadic will present a session on “Building Sustainable Digital Preservation Programs” from 9:55AM – 10:15AM PST.

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11/19/2025

Digital Bedrock is proud to return as a sponsor to AMIA’s annual conference, being held in Baltimore December 2-5. We’ll have a booth in the Pavilion (Booth # 212), and CEO Linda Tadic is presenting in two sessions: “It’s All On Tape: Case Studies in LTO Technology,” where’s she’ll describe Digital Bedrock’s use of LTO as its preservation storage media and give an update on LTO technologies; and “DIY Digital Preservation Tips for Independent Producers, Part 1: The Problems,” a brief overview of some of the topics presented at the IDA “Are Your Films Future-Proofed?” workshop in September 2025.



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As the world’s largest international association of professional media archivists, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) is uniquely poised to bring together a broad range of experts. Members represent corporate and national archives, media companies, libraries, historical societies, l...

11/06/2025

It’s World Digital Preservation Day (https://tinyurl.com/3xctezjv) Do you know where your digital assets are? Are they healthy and protected?

10/21/2025

iPRES is the international digital preservation conference, taking place this year in Wellington, New Zealand, November 3-7, 2025. Digital Bedrock is proud to be a sponsor, and CEO Linda Tadic will be participating in two sessions: A conversation between attendees and representatives of storage infrastructure, including both cloud storage and alternative models, with Linda representing Digital Bedrock’s approach to sustainable and secure data storage as part of a digital preservation solution. In addition, Linda will showcase one of Digital Bedrock’s simple tools that helps clients perform basic appraisal and selection of their data prior to preservation in the iPRES Digital Preservation "Bake Off."

More about this year’s iPRES, including online sessions, can be found here:

Join us in Wellington, New Zealand, the cultural and creative heart of Aotearoa, for iPRES 2025 -- the 21st International Conference on Digital Preservation. iPRES 2025 will take place at the state-of-the-art Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre, and online, from November 3rd to 7th ...