When you're ready to deposit your data for sharing and archiving, look into whether there is already a repository in your field where the most likely users of your data would look. The following sites ...

I can’t remember the first time a database or storage vendor told me, “Disk is cheap,” but it was probably in the 1990s. Vendors like to say disk is cheap because it helps them sell more of it and to ...

When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget ...

Operational databases continue to expand, with database sizes growing in most organizations. There are several reasons for this growth. The primary reason, of course, is that more and more data is ...

SAN FRANCISCO — At 3:30 am on November 6, a fire swept through the scanning center of the Internet Archive. The news was poignant for an organization that thinks hard about how information is lost and ...

When thousands of pages started disappearing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website late last week, public health researchers quickly moved to archive deleted public health ...