Is the data or digital content you’re writing, creating, or capturing going to last longer than the media it’s written to? The majority of every organization that works with such information or content will answer, “Yes.” That means the information will have to be moved from the original technology it’s stored on to a newer technology – welcome to digital migration. The life of disk in production is roughly 3 to 4 years. LTO tape cartridges have a shelf-life of 30 years, but that also requires a tape drive capable of reading the tape 30 years later. As data and digital content become ever more important in our modern society, so does the need for a modernized approach to data and content migration – the subject of this paper.
