No organization is exempt from the government, legal and competitive pressures to store more data for longer periods. At the same time, organizations are trying to do more with flat or falling IT ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks. Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery ...

Backups and data archives have a lot in common with one another. After all, both are geared toward data preservation. In some cases, backups may even be used as a substitute for a dedicated archive ...

We all know that we should back up our priceless data, but we always seem to forget just how valuable that data is until the next crash or stolen laptop. Another sticking point is that although ...

What belongs in the Archive? The foundation of the archive is the media assets. Production notes, technical documentation etc. can contribute considerably to the value of the archive. When a restore ...

Starting at the beginning of this decade, companies have faced growing archiving requirements with IT, often being the go-to guy to deliver on these corporate requests for archived data from backup ...

Microsoft this week introduced two new services to address data management and compliance concerns, namely Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive. Microsoft 365 Backup provides backup and ...

A cloud backup solution must not only restore data, it must also help you meet the requirements of the GDPR. The three key ...

The word Archive is actually very old. The Romans called a building where they stored scripture rolls that were no longer needed for daily work “archivum”. Today´s digital file archive does the same.