Off-site self-storage of company records - like holding back a tide of archival chaos
May 28, 2011
Off-site self-storage of company records starts well……lots of space; boxes neatly stacked on the floor or on shelves; tidy; organised. But then within a short period, the self-storage space is full of collapsing boxes, and it’s difficult or impossible to retrieve records.
The problem with self-storage is not insufficient storage space - the availability of additional storage units means there’s as much space as needed.
The problem is that managing records in off-site self-storage is like holding back a tide of archival chaos - the tide will eventually and inevitably come in.
It’s the nature of archives that causes off-site self-storage to degenerate into an inefficient, troublesome and high cost alternative to managed storage services: Read more