This week the company launched Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.

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Two main initiatives are National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System ( NARCIS): the national portal for those who are in search of information about researchers and their work and Data Archiving and Networked Services ( DANS) to provide access to datasets by developing data infrastructures in organisations.

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Another New Jersey company, CommVault specializes in software for data management: archiving, disaster recovery, migration and so on.

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Magnetic tape continues to be relevant for long-term data retention and archiving.

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The volume of structured data was relatively low, meaning that database archiving would not reduce the storage footprint by much.

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Better archiving technologies are extending the shelf lives of data you don't want people to see.

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Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.

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They also offer big data analytics, high performance computing, web and collaboration applications, and archiving and storage.

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Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).

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