DMF Speaker's Bureau

Long-term Digital Information Retention & Preservation Topics

DMF Presentation or SNIA Tutorial Title	Abstract
Best Practices for Long-term Retention of Digital Information	Compliance, legal, business, discovery, and security risk have changed the value and risk of owning and administrating information within the datacenter. Old approaches to retaining, preserving, and disposing of information in multiple isolated and 'siloed' 'electronic archives' no longer meet today's requirements for reduced operating costs, scale, and high efficiencies. This presentation highlights new work being spearheaded by the SNIA's Data Management Forum to produce a reference architecture for best practices in long-term digital information retention based on information-lifecycle-management methods.
Storage Considerations for Database Archiving	The concept of maintaining a long-term archive is not new, but application data introduces many new challenges. According to the SNIA Archive Task Force 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey, over 81% of respondents feel database data is the most at risk. Database data is vulnerable to loss due to the decay and obsolescence of the media on which it is stored, and becomes inaccessible and unreadable when software needed to interpret it becomes obsolete and is lost. The way in which you might implement ILM or tiered storage is different when applied to application data. This tutorial will discuss archiving strategies and long term implications of how database data should be stored and accessed.