Dear Colleagues, especially those administering corporate RIM programs:

This august group, and others, have established that quality varies widely in digital storage media.  For example, for CDs [that is, Compact Disks -- if you were thinking Certificates of Deposit, you are on the wrong listServ :-)] gold is good, and the 100-spindle-for-$10 CDs at StaplMax suffer by comparison.

For enterprises requiring long-term record storage, how have you established, implemented, and enforced quality-control of media?  Have you written media quality requirements into your procedures and policies?  Have you forged an alliance with Corporate Purchasing for enterprise-wide standards and/or central purchasing and distribution?  Do you allow a double standard: cheap CDs for convenience copies and gold CDs for records?

In short, how can we best invest in high-quality media in order to ensure longterm records availability while minimizing or eliminating media migration?

I profoundly appreciate your thoughts and shared experience, to say nothing of your invaluable collegiality.

Wishing you well,

Gordy
Gordon E.J. Hoke, CRM
http://PositivelyRIM.blogspot.com
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