Here are some reasons data archival is necessary: 1. Archiving is very different from a data backup, something that becomes extremely evident at the worst time: when data needs to be located and produced.

Why Should You Archive Data?Ī formal compliance-style archiving strategy for you data helps you not only organize this strategic asset, but secure it while making it more operationally useful.

Going forward, not only are more organizations going to need to address their need for archiving data and these new communication records, but they will need to think about how to accommodate multi-data archival and compliance in a more streamlined, manageable manner. Adding to this challenge is the need to remain compliant with existing and new data retention regulations such as FINRA, SOX, FERPA, HIPPA,GDPR, FOIA and CCPA. The mass adoption of new collaboration and communication tools like Zoom, Slack, and Teams are where business conversations are happening, and thus need to be retained like email. Yet many organizations retain email more informally with no proper security protocols, retention and lifecycle management. Many organizations started archiving email because it became the informal documentation of discussions, understandings and agreements. Data helps in both short term and long term operations, and hence archives need to be accessible, often for many years.

In a digital world, data is an asset and it is no wonder almost all organizations archive data, at least to some extent.

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