The project, which will be carried out on behalf of the state's Department of Industry and Resources, will involve the remastering and migration of approximately 80,000 legacy tapes to high density 3590 media technology.
Due to the age of many of the data sets, it is expected that a significant proportion of the tapes will be suffering from damage or deterioration.
SpectrumData plans to use specialist data recovery techniques, and along with their wealth of experience in data recovery and data migration are confident they will achieve a better than 98% recovery rate.
"The awarding of this contract to SpectrumData is evidence of our growing dominance in the market place and our reputation as Australia’s leading data migration specialist," stated CEO, Guy Holmes.
"Our world class proprietary software and data recovery techniques allow us to migrate data faster and more accurately than anyone else in the industry."
During 2004, SpectrumData was awarded a 3 year multimillion dollar contract with the federal government department Geoscience Australia to provide similar data migration services - the largest of its kind ever awarded in Australia.
“Given the size of WA's petroleum and natural resources sector, it is a great privilege to be chosen as one of the WA Government's preferred suppliers for this very important and exciting project. It reaffirms our approval and rating as a long term government supplier at both a state and federal level.
