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 ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

Clinical data archiving, the movement of inactive patient information from a production electronic health record (EHR) to a long-term storage solution, has been happening at major hospitals and health ...

I have 80GB of personal data that I need to archive. Not backup, archive. This may grow to 1TB by the time I'm done. What archival methods exist out there for personal/small business use? Do they all ...

At the very least, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect Dec. 1, are forcing many IT managers to take a second look at their electronic record-archiving policies. That, observers say ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., vendor's Active Archive Appliance (A3) instead uses DVDs for data storage, providing a long-term, more readily accessible file archive, the CRN Test Center finds. Archiving ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. today said it will launch new tools to help businesses archive, access and protect data. Following a fast-growing industry trend, HP’s new StorageWorks Continuous Information ...

Companies will need to invest in an automated data archiving system, if they have not already, in order to cope with the growing data generated as well as data protection laws enacted by countries ...

It seems like only yesterday we covered a project using QR codes to archive data on paper (OK, it was last Thursday), so here’s another way to do it, this time with a dedicated codec using the full ...

1. Public data archiving (PDA) is widely advocated as a means of achieving open data standards, leading to improved data preservation, increased scientific reproducibility, and transparency, as well ...

Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good. Over the past three weeks, ...