Sunday, August 7, 2011

When Data Disappears



http://ow.ly/5Xh27

Article on the New York Times, written by Kari Krauss and published on August 6th, 2011, also appearing on the New York Times Sunday Review on August 7th.

This article discusses the difficulties involed in storing data for long term storage.  The article touches on issues that pertain to legacy data, and how challenging it can be to truly preserve the content of ESI over long periods of time.  Interestling the article does not touch on the recent development of cloud computing, nor give insight into how the development of the cloud can assist in storing data for long term periods.

The article references the video game industry and uses the efforts put forth to store video games for greater time periods as a positive example that can possibly used as a model for storing other forms of data.

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