Dead Media Beat: the 100-Year Storage Problem

*SNIA is the Storage Networking Industry Association, "made up of some 400 member companies spanning the global storage market."

http://www.snia.org/forums/dmf/programs/ltacsi/100_year/problem

Although corporate and legal issues have recently brought data archiving to the light of day, the problems associated with preserving digital information are not new. Archiving for a few years is hard enough, but when requirements dictate that data be retained for longer, problems with media...