Why Archive Your Website?

Corporations, government agencies and other institutions increasingly rely on web-based publications and collaboration to share and develop knowledge and understanding. They use websites, extranets, intranets, blogs, wikis, customer forums and so on.

Traditional backups of databases and servers are not a viable option for maintaining accessible web-based information, especially where Content Management Systems are used. CMS's employ a broad range of technologies and systems, databases, schema and templates that inevitably evolve and are very costly to maintain beyond their period of active use. Moreover, the structure and organisation of website content on a disk rarely reflects the structure and organisation of the website itself, and therefore it's backups are likely to be next to useless for e-discovery and production.

Geoffrey E. Bock of the Patricia Seybold Group, says:

"Compliance managers expect to be able to implement comprehensive content retention policies as an integral aspect of your strategic Web presence. They need to be able to automatically archive, retain for predetermined periods of time, and dispose of, content produced for your multiple online environments."

Hanzo's enterprise web archiving solutions are ideal for records and information management as well as litigation support:

• compliance - if any of your web documents are required for regulatory compliance
• litigation support - if any of your web documents are required for legal purposes, it is normally far easier, and thus cheaper, to retrieve them from an archive than to go through lengthy and complex e-discovery using backups and disk images
• maintaining content without the expense of maintaining legacy software or applications, for publishers, bloggers, webmasters and IT staff
• library and archival resources
• preserving creative output such as designs, advertising and banners
• preserving your on-line brand heritage