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The Benefits Of Data Recovery Services in San Diego

There’s no denying the potential impact a natural disaster could have on your business. According to Unitrends, 94% of companies that suffer from catastrophic data loss wind up closing their doors for good. While the threat of earthquakes here in San Diego is very real, to implement a disaster recovery and data protection plan solely […]

3 Situations where an Audit Trail Can Help

When information is moved, do you know where it’s going and where it’s been? With an independent 3rd party audit trail, simply defined as a record of the comings and goings of a carton or file provided by an offsite storage vendor, like Corodata, you can prove you did the right thing and track down […]

Reasons for Data Recovery

5 Ways to Hold a Shred Day

5 Ways to Hold a Shred Day

Many of our clients organized paper shredding events last week in honor of Earth Day, April 22nd. #EarthDay is a global holiday where people join efforts to show support for a sustainable environment—like hold a shred day. Paper shredding is an eco-friendly way to remove unwanted paper securely while protecting our planet. Many businesses found […]

Don’t Let Disaster Strike. Protect Business Documents.

Editor’s Note: First in a three-part series, What is Records Management?, where we outline significant RIM features: Protect Business Documents, Lifecycle and Business Strength. Who would have thought that Winnie-the-Pooh would wind up in court trying to explain his way around shoddy record management? Well, it wasn’t exactly Pooh himself, but his expensive lawyers defending […]
Five Procedures Every Records Manager Should Follow

Five Procedures Every Records Manager Should Follow

Regardless of size, properly stored records add intrinsic value to your organization. Every member of your staff is a potential “record creator,” and this leads to the need for Records Information Management (RIM). Larger companies may employ a certified records manager, but even the smallest and even virtual firms need a good system of records […]

Learn About Records Management

Each day your business creates data, whether it be client files, personnel documents, financial data or legal information. Keeping up with these records is crucial, yet can be challenging. Aside from having the proper amount of space it takes to securely store documents, you also need to have an organizational system in place that allows […]
Eight Easy Steps to a More Organized Desk

Eight Easy Steps to a More Organized Desk

Consider the current statistics: The use of office paper has tripled since the birth of the computer. The average office employee spends 1.5 hours a day (6 weeks per year) looking for misplaced things. Then there is the 21% of Americans who have missed vital work deadlines due to clutter. Nearly half say that disorganization […]

Questions Information Managers will ask in 2013

Questions Information Managers will ask in 2013 Based on the thousands of conversations this year and decades of experience in the information management field, Corodata predicts these questions will be uttered a bunch in 2013. 1. What’s my data telling me? Data is flying at us all in alarming frequency and growing. What is harder […]

Tame Your Data Dragon in Four Steps

The amount of information, paper and digital, we are creating and trying to manage these days is simply terrifying, just like a dragon. Our IT friends are hanging on for dear life, while our Records Managers are being bombarded with initiatives to improve the flow of records without spending money and with less staff. Unfortunately, […]