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In our previous blogs, we talked about digitizing analog archives. A transition from file folders and paper to bits and bytes. Although these clearly take up much less space, even this data must be stored somewhere. If it’s a small…
It still exists: huge halls full of paper archival files. We recently visited one such archival service and found as many as 8 million file folders there. Paper. You would think that everything is digital these days, but nothing could…
When archives were still mostly paper, it could be attractive to store them outdoors. After all, the archive could take up quite a bit of space, and square footage was and is expensive. Now that an archive can fit on…
Again: stay “vendor neutral”! Ten, fifteen years ago all of digital Netherlands was concerned that the archive had to be VNA: Vendor Neutral Archive. An archive independent of the manufacturer. But even in the year 2020, the question still comes…
Data analytics requires rapid availability of data Data analytics is a useful tool for getting the most out of your data. That way you can be at a glance where which product is selling best, what the changes are, why,…
The information must be preserved The essential question in archiving is not: how long will my CD last? But: what should I do so that the information on my CD will last longer than the CD? In fact, the lifetime…
He who keeps what, has what This is the second part of our blog on migration. How do you keep information from the past understandable and accessible? It is important to migrate data from one storage to another in a…
Why archive data must be available quickly and inexpensively A customer recently told us that they use local storage for medical research data during processing and analysis. After all, it’s fast and cheap because it’s on premise and, after all,…
Determine type and content of your data for proper storage Not too long ago in the news: hospitals transfer their data to a third party, which stores the data somewhere in the cloud. Point is that this is privacy-sensitive data,…
The archive is no longer the archive! We are increasingly facing developments such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). To do machine learning and AI well, you need large amounts of data: after all, you need it as a…
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