Archiving
At some point in time the need to archive your data will arise. Data is reportedly growing by up to 125% a year, yet up to 80 percent of this data remains inactive in production systems where it cripples performance, utilises high cost storage and to compound the problem, many organisations are in the midst of compliance initiatives that require the retention of more data for longer periods of time, as well as consolidation projects that result in significant data growth.
Data Archiving best practices:
- Set a data retention policy
- Integrate data retention policies into one archiving system if possible
- Enforce data retention based on a published central retention document
- Store data in classes appropriate to the age of data and its access requirements
- Relocate inactive data to the archive
- Retain application transparency for users regardless of where the data resides
- Get your archiving methodology approved as legal in each country you operate in by the relevant agency concerned
Alpha provides a range of archiving solutions for both file and email archiving. Contact us now for an independent review of your archiving options.