Storage Tip: Steps to long-term retention of digital information

By David Hill, Mesabi Group

According to a recent survey from the SNIA's Data Management Forum, over half (53%) of the respondents stated that they have information that must be retained permanently, and 83% stated that they have information that must be retained over 50 years. Before you can put together your long term data archiving strategy, you must identify how long you need to keep your data.

Here's what you need to know...