Address Information Governance Now, Avoid Legal Headaches Later

There were a host of problems associated with storing paper records. They ate up closet space and sometimes whole warehouses, and they were vulnerable to fire, rot, water, not to mention creeping disorganization. Moreover, compared to digital records, they were in the stone age when it came to cross-referencing and searching. But organizations have been slow to recognize that digital storage of information comes with its own set of problems, including one big one. “With technology refresh occurring at an ever increasing rate,” writes Jon Tilbury, CEO at Preservica, “digital content and records are at serious risk of being lost forever as the hardware and software used to access and read them becomes obsolete or is decommissioned.”