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From paper to digital archive in 5 steps Recently in the news: ‘An employee of the municipality of Tiel mistakenly destroyed the municipality’s entire building archives from 1945 to 2010. This happened after all files had been digitized.’ Digitized, so…

The “Philippus Corts Foundation” (outside the Netherlands “The Corts Foundation”) focuses on the Dutch past in East and Southeast Asia. One of the foundation’s projects is the sustainable digital preservation of VOC archives at ANRI, Indonesia’s national archive. At stake…

National e-depositories must take final step All government data will soon be collected by the Regional History Centers, using relatively small e-depositories. These records are then further transmitted to the National Archives’ large e-depot. We have been working on this…

Cloud storage: who is responsible? Many companies store data in the cloud and also purchase various services from it. Obviously, you want this data to be secure. But who is responsible for safety. Many companies think this is the suit-an…

Use the right hardware for your storage Just as in a well-organized warehouse stuff is never just sitting around, so it works with data storage. Storing data can be done in many different ways, with several considerations at play. Cost,…

Security for data is a must The question comes up frequently: why go for local storage when I can just hire a cloud service? Just as scalable. A good question with an even better answer. We are happy to explain.

The great success of ransomware In our previous blog, we touched on how to guard against ransomware when it comes to static data. But why is ransomware such a big danger and is it currently taking off?

Ransomware calls for secure storage The owners and managers of the Q-Park parking garages will think otherwise, but in fact the Netherlands got lucky during the last attack in May by hackers with ransomware. The advantage was that the problem…

Migrate data on time! Do you remember it? Wordperfect? It is an example of a program that we used to work with widely, but has since disappeared. And thus at the same time an example of the problem of migration:…

A store of elastic In our previous blog, we talked about the different ways of storing and archiving. Most IT administrators are well aware that storage must fit the type of data. Only: how to choose the right system for…