Data storage can be difficult for companies who are not familiar with many of the challenges solved for years in the mainframe world. Different systems need to be prepared for the activity that it takes to put data storage plans into action, which can lead to successful solutions for the data that your company has to deal with for new devices, personal computers and cloud storage.
Writing for Forbes, contributor Tom Coughlin writes about the different possibilities that companies have for data storage and what difficulties can be found in the search for an affordable and easy-to-implement system.
Coughlin's piece asserts that some of the older forms of data retention, like magnetic tape and hard drives, are currently options for storage. But these are just some of the ideas currently being thrown around, and the author acknowledges some of the pros and cons for the latter approach.
"Hard disk drive active archives can also be combined with flash memory to provide better overall system performance," he writes. "However hard disk drives do not last forever. They can wear out with continued use and even if the power is turned off the data in the hard disk drive will eventually decay due to thermal erasure."
Whatever older forms of storage your company has been using may dictate the lifespan of the data contained and how it might impact any legacy modernization efforts.
But as a department, if you are utilizing a screen-based approach, and using Flynet Viewer to access, improve and integrate, you can breathe easy and just let the masters of the universe that run your mainframe worry about data storage!