Mechanical Engineering, March 1st, 2008
The data stored in computers can remain as valuable as ever, but retrieving it becomes a challenge over time.
Your company's most important data may also be its hardest to access. This information consists of the digital files created over the years by engineers. If companies don't have a plan in place to gain quick and easy access to this information, future engineering projects can suffer, according to a number of industry experts.
In industry parlance, this kind of older, business-critical information is referred to as legacy data. The legacy is tried technology, already paid for, that ca...
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