What happens if the customer you pitched

Archiving is a tricky business... The problem arises from the fact that data as stored in two main forms cheap air jordan 11 , structured and unstructured.

Structured data is great! It’s nicely lined up and ready to be manipulated, processed, updated and archived when it is no longer needed. Typically it has existed as structured data for all of its life. Maybe its rows sat in a data base somewhere cheap jordan 11 free shipping , or emails held by a Microsoft Exchange server. Yes we know, your inbox may not LOOK very tidy, but behind it there is a database that is working hard to store and organise the 10 cheap jordan 11 from china ,000 items in your ‘Deleted Items’ folder which you are hanging on to just in case you need something from 3 years age (yes I do it too.. 12,392 items at last count).


You could even argue that the internet itself is a form of ‘Structured Data’. It looks pretty messy, but there are rules and guidelines cheap jordan 11 womens , complicated as they may be. Otherwise how would your browser know how to render this article? Or you could even ask, how did you find this page without rules and structure? How does Google index the internet if it doesn’t have structure?


So, what is unstructured data? Well cheap jordan 11 mens , it’s everything that doesn’t follow a defined set of rules. An example? That’s easy! Next time you are at work log on to your offices file server! Humans are messy.. very, very messy. What makes sense in our heads is complete and utter gibberish to someone else! A wonderful expression of this is the network file share we have all grown to love\tolerate\loath.


It’s a playground full of old office memo’s, spreadsheets from that sales pitch 8 years ago cheap real jordan 11 , photo’s of the office party (which you wouldn’t actually mind if they went missing) and umpteen other different things. The folder structure looks like someone dropped the server’s hard drives in a shredder and then fired the bit’s out of a confetti cannon.


The problem is that this unstructured data has value, almost incalculable value! What happens if the customer you pitched to 8 years ago comes back and asks you to quote again?? If you cannot find those spreadsheets, or worse still you have removed them in an attempt to clean up some older files you’ll have to start again without the edge that all that previous information gives you.


Speaking of cleaning up older unstructured data cheap jordan 11 wholesale , how on earth do you go about doing it?? There are no set rules or structure you can use like you could if you were dealing with structured data. Do you just do a ‘Find All’ with modified date older than 6 years and hit the delete key hoping you’ll never need it again? You need to do something or that poor server’s hard drives are going to keep filling up. What about putting it ‘in the cloud’? After all there’s almost limitless storage available...


Sure, great idea! But that costs.. every month. And the more data you store the more expensive it gets. Plus are you sure the data’s secure? And what about things like the Data protection Act and the obligations it places on business to only keep data for as long as they need it?


What’s needed is File Archiving Software, a solution that grinds its way through that unstructured mess migrating files off to low cost storage (at last! a use for that old file server that’s been sitting under the desk since the last upgrade!).