Proper records management is essential to the survival of any business. The recent parade of hurricanes in the Gulf has served as a good reminder about the necessity for businesses to have good data storage and recovery programs in place. Many businesses that experience a major disaster are never able to fully recover. But disasters can also come in many forms, such as power outages, fires and malfunctioning sprinkler systems. The Association of Records Managers and Administrators has some helpful suggestions for protecting your company’s information:

http://www.arma.org/news/index.cfm?NewsID=354

They also have an informative pamphlet that you can download, just to give you business owners some more reasons to lie awake at night:

http://www.arma.org/pdf/articles/DisasterAllSizes.pdf

Although maintaining electronic copies of everything is good from a business’ perspective, companies must also keep in mind the new rules regarding electronic discovery. Information and opinions about some of these issues are at http://www.discoveryresources.org/04_om_thinkingED_0509.html.

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