Archiving to the cloud

Archiving to the cloud

The anticipated new Companies Act and the release of the King III report represent milestones in the evolution of corporate governance in SA. They also underline the need for sound governance practices and highlight the numerous practical benefits that organisations can realise if they integrate such practices into their operational processes.

One such process is accurate, reliable and secure record keeping, which is expected to be enshrined in new 'e-discovery' laws in the Act. This comes as the overall level of digital information growth spirals to more than 50% year-on-year, driving the need for more storage.

Many organisations have adopted a mandate to save everything 'just in case', resulting in them keeping every record, report and e-mail, including unused data. Stretched IT budgets and reduced staffing levels threaten to undermine this approach and compromise the ability to reliably access critical historical business data when required.

Perhaps it is fortuitous that technology is currently driving new data storage strategies, one of which is to lower the cost of inactive data typically stored in high-end storage arrays, by archiving it to lower cost storage.

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Source: itweb.co.za
By: John Hope-Bailie