How mature is your Archive?

A recent report from analysts the Aberdeen Group found that 59 percent of respondents do not have an e-discovery or message archiving strategy in place.

The worrying implication is that the majority of businesses today are not in a position to meet even the most basic IT governance requirements, let alone access the value residing in their data assets.

It is clear that many organisations continue to rely on their backup infrastructure to provide data archiving capabilities but a backup is no substitute for a carefully considered strategy.

In order to help organisations accurately assess the status of their current archive and plan future strategies, Plasmon has developed the Business Archive Management assessment.

This model defines five stages in the development of a mature archive.  In addition, it identifies four key business processes that when, put in place, lead to an increasingly sophisticated archive environment. 

The five developmental stages and four business processes can be visualized in a simple matrix that can be used to chart the status and evolution of an archive.