We live in a world of instant gratification — immediate notifications, lightning-speed sharing, next-day delivery. It’s no wonder we’re easily frustrated when something doesn’t work. Online, we can ...

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 ...

Prognostications and predictions are inherently flawed. Does anyone really believe Punxsutawney Phil is a reliable weather forecaster? And how many of us, in our predictions of what would happen in ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have 80GB of personal data that I need to archive. Not backup, archive. This may grow to 1TB by the time I'm done. What archival methods exist out there for personal/small business use? Do they all ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

At the very least, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect Dec. 1, are forcing many IT managers to take a second look at their electronic record-archiving policies. That, observers say ...

It seems like only yesterday we covered a project using QR codes to archive data on paper (OK, it was last Thursday), so here’s another way to do it, this time with a dedicated codec using the full ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., vendor's Active Archive Appliance (A3) instead uses DVDs for data storage, providing a long-term, more readily accessible file archive, the CRN Test Center finds. Archiving ...

Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good. Over the past three weeks, ...