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Thursday, August 7, 2008, 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Speaker:
Michael Peterson, President, Strategic Research Corporation.
The volume of digital information being kept online for the long-term is overwhelming and leading to a crisis of cost and complexity. There are no viable long-term solutions to ensure that digital information will be readable in the future - yet. Digital documents are vulnerable to loss due to the decay and obsolescence of the media on which they are stored, and they become inaccessible and unreadable when software needed to interpret them, or the hardware on which that software runs, becomes obsolete and is lost. This session focuses on the notion of archives and archiving, presents some of the common approaches to archiving and highlights pertinent areas that need to be addressed when designing an archive to meet today's business challenges.
New methods and practices are required to deal with this pending crisis of long-term digital information retention. This presentation will discuss the work of the SNIA 100 Year Archive Task Force, the new technologies you can deploy today, and future technologies and solutions that we can expect.
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