When there are no more natural disasters!

When electricity is free!

When hardware never fails!

When software is bug-free!

When people no longer make mistakes!

When there are no computer viruses or other malicious code!

When all people are honest!

When government regulations (SarbOx, SEC, HIPPA. etc.) have gone away!

And even though disk-based backup is set to revolutionize the retention of short-term backups and recovery, don't forget that in that last item some records will need to be stored for many, many years. In the case of HIPPA think about keeping a patient's records over a lifetime which could be 70 to 80 years or beyond. So for some businesses disk, tape and other longer term achival mediums are going to be a mandatory part of the data life cycle architecture.

I'm going on vacation for a few weeks so no posting for a while. I hope you've been having a great summer.

Talk to you in September,

Jim Hankins