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 ...

Organizations that use prepackaged ERP/CRM, custom, and third-party applications are seeing their production databases grow exponentially. At the same time, business policies and regulations require ...

In these days of GDPR and staggering increases of data, it's amazing that businesses still deem archiving strategies unimportant. All too often, digital archiving projects get pushed to the bottom of ...

It's 7:45 p.m. on a Friday evening and you've just received word that the high-voltage boards on your flagship product are burning up. The product database was archived three years ago when the design ...

Data archiving is an important aspect of data governance and data management. Not only does archiving help to reduce hardware and storage costs, but it is also an important aspect of long-term data ...

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 ...

A lot is written about the importance of backing up data, but the media and methodologies proposed aren’t generally suitable for archiving. Securing your data for posterity, i.e., archiving, requires ...

In today’s digital economy, data is the fuel that powers organisations. But with data comes a hidden challenge called “uncontrolled database growth”. Over time, expanding databases not only increase ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. It’s been reported that the average health system manages 18 different electronic medical ...

AltaMed, a 35-location health system in Southern California, recently moved from its NextGen electronic health record to an Epic EHR, which left patient records in multiple systems. The health system ...