Summary
What is the longest lasting archiving medium that is almost certain to be retrievable 50, 100, or 500 years from now? It's not a digital storage medium; it's paper. The fact is that there are downsides to digital files. Digital media can break or become damaged. Hard drives can crash. Digital media can change. (How many of you have the capability to read files from a 514" floppy disk?) With digital you can either access the documents or you can't.
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Digital Archiving
Scan to archive makes a lot of sense-but it may or may not make you a lot of money.
Sir Speedy's president Dan Beck notes that "Ninety percent of all corporate information lies in unmanaged, chaotic filing structures that are not protected from fire, water, or other natural disasters."In an article in Entrepreneur magazine, AlphaG...See the full content of this document
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