Retrieving an older message in Microsoft Outlook often requires burrowing into your mail archives. Outlook uses archives to store older messages when you purge them from your regular mail folders. 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 ...

When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget ...

Companies are in a bind. Confronted with new legal discovery requirements, they often turn to their IT departments to mine their growing data stores. But when deadlines are tight, corporations can’t ...

As the nature and scale of enterprise data changes, secondary storage—especially archive—becomes a huge opportunity to add value to organizational data Perhaps the least understood component of ...

As data creation and retention rates continue to increase, the time frame for active data use has shrunk, with most files accessed less frequently and for shorter periods before becoming dormant. This ...

From pesticides to surfactants to personal care products, the list of contaminants in the environment constantly grows longer. For decades, researchers have been adding compounds or families of ...

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...

Operational databases continue to expand, with database sizes growing in most organizations. There are several reasons for this growth. The primary reason, of course, is that more and more data is ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm whereby computational resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth can be rented on a pay-for-what-you-use basis. The cloud's chief advantages are elasticity and ...