What is a Storage Consultation?
A storage consultation enables individuals or departments to discuss their current data, repository, and usage. Experts will cover best practices, options for your storage, how to move existing storage, security concerns, and records management.
What does a Storage Consultation provide?
- Provide expertise in best storage solution
- Cloud Storage
- On-premise storage
- Our Files
- Research Computing
- Possible alternatives
- Some unique situations call for unique solutions
- Discuss possible costs
- Evaluate limitations
- Best Practices
- Sharing from individual storage vs. collaborative storage
- Retention
- Disposition of data
When should I request a Storage Consultation?
- When your current data solution is not meeting your needs
- You are starting a new endeavor that requires a new storage location
- When you want to migrate away from an old file repository
- Anytime you might have a question regarding your storage
- You just want to go over best practices
We may also recommend further consultation with the Archives & Records Management team. The Archives & Records Management team provides guidance and support to faculty and staff to help ensure that electronic records are created, maintained, disseminated, and destroyed in a manner consistent with legal and regulatory requirements, industry standards, and institutional policies.
https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/ld.php?content_id=80325461
Questions and considerations for tackling digital clutter.
https://www.library.dartmouth.edu/find/records-management/records-retention/all/all
Use the General Retention Schedule year round to purge records from your systems that are past their retention period.