Swiss Picture Bank is the only online service built specifically to preserve your images for decades. It is the insurance for your memories. Our revolutionary security system combines five different technical and commercial defenses to make Swiss Picture Bank the safest place for your photos.
The core of our technical infrastructure is the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, a cutting edge WORM (write once, read many) long-term data archive. It is supported by three independent backups: a hard drive array located in a second data center; a magnetic tape system housed in a Swiss bank vault; and a second magnetic tape system housed in a Swiss army bunker in the Alps engineered to withstand atomic, biological and chemical attack.
But superior hardware isn't enough to promise decades of secure storage. It's equally important that the service remains active for all those years. That's why our final security measure isn't another layer of technology; it's the backing of the Picture Guarantee Foundation.