by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management, Technical Debt
The process of archiving data can be expensive, from the movement and testing of data, the creation of reports and the documentation of the process. It is necessary when the data is subject to records retention and needs to preserved for a long period. Another option...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance
“We’ve got a backup of the database … that’s all we need as an archive” Err, no. A backup of a database is without doubt a complete and accurate copy of an application’s data. However: It has a limited shelf life. There will come a...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery
When designing an archiving service a key consideration is the level of access available to archived assets. Whilst there is no single solution that meets all needs I’ll focus on the best practice we have used, which is centralized records management...
by Colin Cecil | Sep 3, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery
Just as real world garbagemen have restrictions on what can be thrown into the municipal waste dump there are rules on what the IT Garbagemen will accept into the corporate archive. Our basic rules: The owner of the application or data asset must have been identified....
by Colin Cecil | Aug 21, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
Cars Age Better Than Applications Every Friday night in local towns there are displays of vintage cars, all immaculately maintained, engines clean, leather polished, windows and dashboards gleaming. Some were top of the line originally, some were more mass produced....
