Digital Bedrock

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 ...

09/30/2025

What do you think digital preservation means for cinema and broadcasting workflows? Digital Bedrock is honored to take part in the Solutions Hub Post Production area at the upcoming SMPTE https://summit.smpte.org/2025/beginMedia Technology Summit (https://summit.smpte.org/2025/solutions-hub-stage). This annual conference focuses on media innovations, solutions, and technologies. It is one of the only peer-reviewed, non-commercial conferences for media technologists who set the international standards that make broadcasting, radio, and cinema run. CEO Linda Tadic (a past SMPTE James A. Lindner Archival Technology Medal Recipient) will be at a table happy to discuss how digital preservation serves as the “post-post production” in the workflow chain.

Dates: October 14-15, 2025. Location: Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, CA

The Media Technology Summit is SMPTE’s annual conference focusing on media innovations, solutions, and technologies. As one of the only peer-reviewed, non-commercial conferences of its kind, each day of the Summit features something new, including four days of programming, two days of exhibits, a ...

09/19/2025

Are you a filmmaker wondering how to preserve your digital elements? Here are links to the resources Linda Tadic shared for the workshop the International Documentary Association (IDA) hosted on September 12, 2025.

Presentations, papers and tools

08/13/2025

It has come to our attention that a software company is mis-appropriating our name as being affiliated with them. If you search on the internet for "Digital Bedrock," be sure to go to the link that has our URL address and logo, not the false one: https://www.digitalbedrock.com/ We are taking action on this false association.

Digital Bedrock offers secure data preservation and archiving service protecting any type of digital content. Our digital preservation system manages data health and format obsolescence. Archive data is redundantly stored offline for disaster recovery, with optional online cloud storage. We offer

07/30/2025

We’re excited to take part and meet all of you at ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2025. Digital Bedrock will be at the Expo - Booth 603. Come by and say hello to CEO Linda Tadic and learn about how our digital preservation services can help your organization! https://archives2025.expofp.com/?digital-bedrock