Indefinite storage: What it is and why you might need it

For hundreds of years, any organisation that needed to store information relied on one tried and tested technology: paper. But since the advent of computing and digital data storage, more and more data has been captured and stored electronically in digital archives. But now organisations need to retain archived data for longer – for business and regulatory reasons – can storage technology keep up? No computer system is older than 80 years, but there are industries that face the prospect of archiving data for 100 years or more. And, with the operating lifespan of a standard hard drive at just three to five years, IT departments need to know how to store data for future generations: so-called indefinite storage.