[Pasig-discuss] SNIA 100 Year Archive Survey

[Sam Fineberg]

Ten years ago, a SNIA Task Force undertook a 100 Year Archive Requirements
Survey with a goal to determine requirements for long-term digital retention
in the data center.  The Task Force hypothesized that the practitioner
survey respondents would have experiences with terabyte archive systems that
would be adequate to define business and operating system requirements for
petabyte-sized information repositories in the data center.

Time flies while you're having fun.  Now it's 2017, and the SNIA Long-Term
Retention Technical Working Group (LTR TWG) and the SNIA Data Protection &
Capacity Optimization Committee have teamed up to launch the 2017
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/100yrarchivesurvey> SNIA Archive Survey.

Back in the "first" decade of the 21st century, practitioners struggled with
logical and physical retention, but for the most part generally understood
their problems.  Eighty percent of organizations participating in the 2007
survey had a need to retain information over 50 years, while 68% reported a
need of over 100 years.  However, "long term" realistically extended to only
about 2017-2022 to migrate and retain readability. After that, survey
responders felt that processes would fail and/or become too costly under an
expected avalanche of information.

Fast forward to 2017 and new standards, storage formats, and software are in
play; and markets like cloud services offer choices which did not exist 10
years ago.  Migration and retention solutions are becoming available but
these solutions are not widely used, except in government agencies,
libraries, and highly regulated industries.  Understanding what is needed
and why is a focus of SNIA's new survey.

The 2017 survey seeks to assess who needs to retain long term information
and what information needs to be retained, with appropriate policies.  The
focus will now be on IT best practices, not just business requirements.  How
is long term information stored, secured, and preserved?  Does the cloud
impact long term retention requirements?

SNIA's  <http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/100yrarchivesurvey> 2017 Archive
Survey launched at September 2017 Storage Developer Conference.  We're
sending out the call.  Are you a member of an IT staff associated with
archives?  In Records and Information Management (RIM)? An academic? In
Legal or Finance?  If long term data preservation is near and dear to your
heart, you'll want to take the survey, which covers business drivers,
policies, storage, practices, preservation, security, and more.  Help SNIA
understand how archive practices have evolved in the last 10 years, what
changes have taken place in corporate practices, and what technology changes
have impacted daily operations.

 

 

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Sam Fineberg

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(650) 319-5727

 

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