Piql - Making Data Immortal

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MAKE

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IMMORTAL

Protect Your Critical Data Today and Preserve Records, Culture and Memory for the Future

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Imagine a magical gateway connecting our digital world to the timeless past. It’s a place where digital information can find a safe home and be transformed into something that lasts forever.

Blending cutting-edge innovation with trusted tradition, we deliver world-leading solutions in data protection and long-term preservation. We are here to challenge the established, - to make data immortal, - to ensure that information and knowledge will always be authentic and accessible.

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As pioneers and innovators in safeguarding irreplaceable data, Piql is the preferred choice for organisations, institutions, and individuals who value the availability and authenticity of their data. Regardless of whether you are a business owner, a government agency, or a cultural institution, Piql offers customised solutions to meet your unique needs. With a commitment to preserving legacies and ensuring the accessibility and authenticity of data for future generations, we are more than just a data storage company. Our advanced technology and timeless values empower clients to protect and preserve their most valuable information, safeguarding it from current and future digital threats. We invite you to join us in revolutionising the way organisations protect their data. Welcome to Piql.

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Our mission is to empower organisations to safeguard their invaluable data, ensuring its accessibility and authenticity. We protect for your operational resilience. We archive so that you can ensure trust. We preserve so that the world can remember.

CORE VALUES

Innovation

Boundaries are continuously pushed to meet evolving needs.

Integrity

Transparency and trust are key to every interaction.

Collaboration

Working together to achieve shared goals.

Excellence

Delivering quality that grows confidence.

Sustainability

Minimizing our environmental impact for a greener future.

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Solving the Digital Storage Crisis

In today’s digital age, it is crucial to ensure the integrity and accessibility of valuable information. However, transitioning from physical archives to digital formats can be challenging, as it requires time and expertise that many organisations lack. Traditional storage methods quickly become outdated, resulting in costly and risky data migrations which often lead to data loss or corruption due to software glitches, hardware failures and human error. Long-term digital preservation is therefore essential to safeguard this critical information for the future.

CHALLENGES IN PROTECTING AND PRESERVING INFORMATION

Vulnerability to cyberattacks

Risk of physical damage Ensuring data authenticity and integrity Data degradation over time Technology obsolescence Problems with future accessibility of data

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What sets Piql apart

Tailored to your needs

If you need to protect critical or sensitive data for disaster recovery, archiving or long-term preservation purposes tomorrow, we can provide customised solutions to keep your data secure, accessible and authentic.

Tested and trusted

We rigorously test and validate our technology to ensure it protects against the erosion of time, physical threats and digital risks.

Integrated with cloud services

piqlConnect provides a cloud-based data lifecycle management service, and Arctic World Archive (AWA) protects the world’s cultural heritage for future generations.

Global reach

From GitHub to the Vatican Library, our global network spans 30+ countries, delivering innovative solutions to world-renowned organizations like the European Space Agency and UNICEF.

We innovate and create secure, robust, self contained and sustainable technologies and solutions that are purpose-built to withstand digital threats and the test of time.

Sustainability

The piqlFilm technology requires no energy as it relies on analog technology. Storing just 1% of the world’s data in the Arctic World Archive could significantly reduce CO₂ emissions over the next century.

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Revolutionary piqlFilm

For over 185 years, photosensitive materials have been used to preserve visual information. Building on this legacy, the piqlFilm offers a durable solution for storing analogue and digital data alike. It achieves long-lasting, reliable preservation by encoding binary data in super-high resolution QR codes. The piqlFilm is unique due to its passive, migration-free technology. This technology requires no servers or energy consumption, making it an eco-friendly, long-term storage solution. It meets your resilience, cybersecurity and archival needs, ensuring your information is kept secure and accessible for generations. As a leading provider of unique, non-hackable and immutable data storage solutions and services, we ensure that what matters most is never lost, whether you need to protect, archive or preserve.

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Secure Sustainable Future-proof Migration Free

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piqlFilm

UNIQUE FEATURES

The most secure storage medium

Unhackable and immutable.

Technology independent

Data can be retrieved tomorrow or at a point in the future, independent of specific technology or vendors.

Low energy consumption No servers, cooling systems or energy are needed.

Visual representation

Documents and images can be represented in a human-readable format.

Migration-free

It is self-contained and self-descriptive, and does not require migration.

Human-readable metadata

The film contains metadata written in a human-readable format.

Long-term durability

The film has passed laboratory testing, ensuring it will last for 1,000 years. Successful checksum verification and read-back were carried out.

Learn more about piqlFilm

PIQL.COM/TECHNOLOGY/FILM

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Our technology

Piql’s Technology: Safeguarding Your Most Valuable Assets

Combining advanced hardware, software and optics, our technology ensures the security and preservation of your data. From piqlFilm to piqlConnect, we safeguard data against the effects of time, physical threats, and digital risks.

piqlFilm

A physical information carrier, photosensitive film, where digital data is encoded as super-high resolution QR codes. Immune to technological failure and environmental deterioration. Web-based platform that provides secure access to data stored online and on piqlFilm. It enables the straightforward management, retrieval and sharing of digital archives.

piqlConnect

piqlWriter

Highly precise hardware that writes digital data to piqlFilm, ensuring optimal storage and longevity. Darkroom required.

piqlReader

Award-winning hardware responsible for high speed verification and retrieval of data from piqlFilm, ensuring reliable access for future generations.

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Our services

As data protection, archival, and preservation specialists, our team offers a variety of services tailored to your needs. With Piql, you can confidently store your data and rest assured it’s securely protected and guaranteed accessible whenever you need it.

Consulting Services

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Digitisation and Digital Transformation We specialise in converting analogue documents, images, and videos into best practices digital formats while helping organisations integrate digital technologies to drive efficiency and innovation. Whether you are starting an archiving project or pursuing digital transformation, our expertise will ensure a successful outcome. We can support you throughout the process, covering everything from pre-digitisation planning and information security to post-digitisation support and compliance.

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Contact us to find out more.

Data Protection

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Protect your most sensitive and critical data from cyber threats and physical risks, while ensuring you have guaranteed access whenever you need it.

Archive

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Create well-organised archives and enrich them with metadata to allow for easy searching and retrieval of valuable information.

Digital Preservation

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Ensure long-term preservation of your data with our migration-free, OAIS (ISO 14721)-compliant approach, which delivers enterprise-grade security, accessibility, and reliability.

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Our Holistic Service Journey - that solves your pains and gives you gains

Various forms of data transfer to Piql is supported; e.g. through piqlConnect, SFTP or API.

Access to data residing online, in the Frozen cloud and on piqlFilm data is enabled through piqlConnect.

Consulting Services to help scope, manage and execute projects within data protection, archival and digital preservation. Manage information flows and much more.

All kinds of digital data, digitised and digitally born, can be ingested through piqlConnect.

CONSULTING

DIGITISATION & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

DATA STORAGE (PIQLCONNECT)

Online, Frozen Cloud On-Premise

Digitally born data

Data transfer

Stored at client’s premises

Access

PIQL CLIENT

Archival planning

Data ingest

Storage configuration

Consulting

Stored in local piqlVault

Stored in Arctic World Archive

Project outline

Offline piqlFilm

Analogue information

Digital transformation

Piql’s secure and immutable, migration free and permanent, sustainable, offline and off-grid storage medium.

The client can choose where to store the piqlFilm. If it is stored in a local piqlVault or in AWA, it remains the ownership of the client.

Digital Transformation supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Creates added value for data.

Digitisation of all kind of physical media including audio-visual content, objects of art and large monuments in 3D.

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Introducing piqlConnect, your ultimate solution for lifecycle data management. piqlConnect is more than just a platform; it’s your gateway to effortless protection, archival or preservation of your valuable data.

piqlConnect is a secure, cloud-based platform that integrates seamlessly into your workflow. Offering top-tier security and a user-friendly interface, it allows you to easily store, access and protect your data, safe in the knowledge that it will always be easy to search for, find and retrieve when you need it.

Your gateway to secure digital preservation

THE POWER OF PIQLCONNECT

Seamless Cloud Experience

Effortless navigation and management of your digital archive with cloud-based access and a user-friendly interface.

Hybrid Storage Solution

Online accessibility and offline storage, ensuring long-term preservation and security in line with OAIS (ISO 14721) standards.

Discover how Piql can safeguard your most valuable assets through piqlConnect PIQL.COM/CONNECT

Integrated Management of piqlFilm Manage and safeguard your data on piqlFilm, offering permanent, unhackable, immutable protection – offline and off-grid.

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Engineered for Permanence. Designed for Peace of Mind.

Tailored to your needs piqlFilm’s super-high resolution nano-film can store data for over 1000 years. It offers protection against cyber threats, electromagnetic interference and radiation, ensuring unmatched data security and integrity. Migration-Free By storing data in open-source archival formats on piqlFilm, you can eliminate the need for repetitive migrations, avoid data corruption, save time and reduce long-term costs. Unalterable A true WORM (Write Once, Read Many) medium is used to store data, making alterations or erasures impossible. Authenticity guaranteed. Future-Proof Data retrieval is technology- and vendor-independent. For disaster recovery purposes, you only need a light source, a digital camera and a computer. Sustainable Piql minimises energy use and carbon footprints, ensuring secure data preservation without compromising environmental responsibility, leading the way in sustainable data management.

Maintenance-Free Storage No need for constant upkeep — keep your data safe and secure with maintenance-free storage, and focus on what matters most.

Searchable Your data remains fully searchable in a standard IT environment, providing quick and easy access whenever you need it.

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Built for Trust. Chosen for Excellence.

Magnetic tape

Optical Disk (CD)

Hard Disk Drive

Cloud

Microfilm

Secure from cyberattacks

EMP Immune

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Offline format

Instant retrieval

True WORM*

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Visual data

Digital data

Offline availability

30 years

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30 years

500 years

1000 years

Long lifetime

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Vendor independent

Confidence in data integrity and security A partner in preserving valuable data Expertise in long-term data preservation Simplified workload for clients Progressive approach to data storage

Technology independent

Migration free

Self contained

Sustainability

* WORM = Write Once Read Many In reality limited to 6-10 years due to obsolescence of supporting hardware and software. Cloud is using a combination of Hard Disk Drives and Magnetic Tape and is offered as a service. Depends on the application

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Arctic World Archive®

The purpose of the Foundation is to preserve the world’s memory, heritage and knowledge for the benefit of future generations, enabling them to remember, understand and learn – and ensuring the perpetuity of this legacy.

As one of the founders of the Arctic World Archive® Foundation, we at Piql are committed to preserving the world’s digital memory. The Arctic World Archive® (AWA) offers unmatched security for the piqlFilm, the world’s digital memory, with an offline and off-grid vault on Svalbard — an Arctic island located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, between northern Norway and the North Pole.

Photo: Vidar Ibenfeldt, Norwegian National Museum

The Arctic World Archive® serves countries, authorities, organisations, and companies that want to contribute to the world’s digital memory and requires secure storage for valuable or irreplaceable information with guaranteed future access. The archive holds global treasures, including deposits from the National Archives of Brazil and Mexico, the National Museum of Norway, the Vatican Library, the European Space Agency and UNICEF, to name but a few. AWA has so far received more than a hundred deposits from over 30 countries worldwide.

Stored deep within permafrost in ideal climatic conditions, the piqlFilm is safeguarded in the most secure “digital embassy” on the planet, with access provided only when needed. This special service is made possible through a unique agreement between AWA and Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK), a state-owned Norwegian mining company. AWA (in collaboration with Piql) ensures the eternal preservation of digital data and operates the service, while SNSK is responsible for the security and monitoring of this unique vault, located in one of the most geopolitically stable places in the world.

Learn moreabout AWA ARCTICWORLDARCHIVE.ORG

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Success stories Explore real-world examples of how Piql has helped organisations protect and preserve their valuable data. From safeguarding business critical or society-critical information to preserving memory and cultural heritage, our solutions have made a difference. Our success stories demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of our technology and services, highlighting the tangible benefits of choosing Piql for your data protection archival or long-term preservation needs.

“The goal of Enresa’s Information Managers is to leave the most valuable data in the best possible way for next generations of users and Piql guarantees this vision.ˮ

María Sáenz de Miera – ARCHIVE MANAGER Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos, SA (ENRESA)

“Before we were introduced to Piql, we wrote a 10 point wish list for an ideal preservation solution. Piql met all requirements on that list.ˮ

Jahn-Fredrik Sjøvik – CTO National Museum of Norway

“Our dream is to convert our historic manuscripts to Piql, and thus be able to give this information to the next generations and to the future.ˮ

Luciano Ammenti – CIO Vatican Library

Read more about our client stories PIQL.COM/CLIENTS

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Piql Partner Network

Operating worldwide, we have locations across the globe to meet our customers’ needs. From our headquarters in Norway to our Arctic facilities and beyond, we are dedicated to delivering top-tier service and support. Discover how Piql can help you protect your most valuable assets by exploring our global locations.

Schedule a visit to one of our facilities today.

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Learn about our Partner program and find our Partners PIQL.COM/PARTNERS

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Every Case Has a Solution. Together, We Will Find a Way.

Get in touch with our experienced team today.

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VERSION: JULY 2025

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