Chapter 5. Archiving data with the hybrid cloud

Organizations depend on their IT teams to find and restore data that was archived for historical purposes in order to recall the conditions, discussions, decisions, and results of the past. Digital archiving is required in many industries to comply with government regulations for storing financial, customer, and patient information. For example, the health care industry is required to keep patient records for many years in order to inform future health care providers of a patient’s history of conditions, diagnosis, and treatment. Many businesses that do not have explicit regulations governing digital archiving have defined internal policies and best practices that archive data for legal reasons because ...

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