A plethera of Straight-Forward Records Management Information

Posted on Aug 14, 2009 in Records Management News

http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/records_management/rqsummer2009.html

Records Quar­terly Vol. 2 No. 2 Sum­mer 2009

View as PDF <http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/records_management/documents/RQSummer2009.pdf>

Records Quar­terly Sum­mer 2009

Con­tents

*     Records Clean-Up Days: Get­ting your records stor­age under con­trol <http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/records_management/rqsummer2009.html#clean>

*     Records Man­age­ment Basics: Inac­tive Records Man­age­ment <http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/records_management/rqsummer2009.html#inactive>

*     Infor­ma­tion Secu­rity Update <http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/records_management/rqsummer2009.html#isec>

Best Per­sonal Regards,

Cary

How long is long-term storage?

Posted on Aug 14, 2009 in Records Management News

How long is long-term stor­age? by John Web­ster http://www.cnet.com/profile/JohnSWebster/

There is a big dis­con­nect between how long peo­ple think they should be stor­ing data and how long they actual can. One group of ven­dors and aca­d­e­mics is try­ing to change that.

Two years ago, the Stor­age Net­work­ing Indus­try Association’s Data Man­age­ment Forum reported the results of a land­mark study http://www.snia.org/about/news/newsroom/pr/view?item_key=62ecc0b3acfe103c71 88e78d16404201078b6322> that looked at the state of long-term stor­age, i.e. pre­serv­ing a dig­i­tal object for more than 10 years. Some dis­turb­ing results jumped out.

The study sug­gested that we live in a dig­i­tal ver­sion of the Dark Ages. I’m talk­ing about it now because I think the mes­sages from the study are still very rel­e­vant to both IT admin­is­tra­tors and consumers.

Read more of the arti­cle here . http://news.cnet.com/8301-21546_3-10309283–10253464.html

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Best Per­sonal Regards,

Cary