Solutions Abound

February 5, 2015 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Solutions Abound

Data management and archiving are key factors for businesses, as you all know. However, because terms like backup, archiving, and records management get used interchangeably so frequently, it is easy to forget that they are not the same thing. This interesting perspective came from News Africa in their article, “Backup, archiving and records management – different solutions for different challenges.”

While all three are important, they are very different and not handled by the same technology. Each of these data challenges requires a specific solution to perform specific functions, ensuring that data is not only available and preserved, but also easily managed.

Defining these terms and resolving the issues of storage is one thing. Additionally, when you are dealing with metadata and processes, it seems like standards should be utilized to ensure findability and security.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.