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Maximising your business document storage efficiency involves two main components. First is a suitable offsite storage system. Second is a secure document destruction system. Essentially, boosting the efficiency of your document storage comes down to deciding what you need to archive and what can be destroyed. What is left is the day-to-day material that keeps the business going in the here and now.
Offsite tape storage has the benefit of removing material from your own premises. Although it is not in need of destruction, material may not be needed to run the business on a day-by-day basis. Having unnecessary material onsite can affect your ability as a business to function to its full potential. Some examples of potential inefficiency include working in a cluttered space and having to search through a mass of documentation, data or other material before finding what you require. In some cases important information may become completely lost. The effects of this in terms of time spent, and business lost, either through the loss of professional reputation or from general disorganisation can hardly be overstated.
Offsite storage can be cost effective and save you time and space. A freed up office space can potentially enable you to hire more staff. As your staff are unencumbered by having to search through substantial amounts of documents, data and other material, they can concentrate on the high added value work that gives businesses a competitive edge. Offsite storage can also have the benefit of ensuring important documents, data and other material are kept in low risk, high security surroundings. The facilities, which are available throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, are typically in quiet areas that are well guarded and securely run. Fire prevention and fire fighting services, for example, use gas rather than water to minimise the damage to documents, data and other material.
Backup storage solutions should be reliable, transparently audited, fully compliant and have 24/7 emergency response services at the ready. You retain ultimate oversight and control of your documents, data and other material. Much of this is enabled through a web based media inventory tool. This tool allows you to decide the parameters of the storage programme and move different documents, data and other material into a disposal programme if needed.
Your material will be securely transported from your offices to the low risk facilities. Tapes are transported under lockdown in GPS-tracked vehicles. Moreover, tapes are picked up to coincide with your internal backup schedule. This ensures the entire process is as efficient as possible, so that no material is potentially missed.
Storing your tapes can also clarify what material may need to be disposed of. Documents can go out of date, and information on clients and business associates can lose its relevancy. There are also data protection issues to take into consideration in terms of how long personal information can be retained. In this case, secure document destruction ensures that the material is disposed of compliantly, efficiently and in an environmentally friendly manner.