INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Information Technology Process: Data Storage and Retrieval



Information Technology Process: Data Storage and Retrieval

Thesis Statement

The information management policy and plan plays a vital role in developing and maintaining the information system infrastructure of the organization. This paper presents the information on use of information technology for the data storage and retrieval purpose. Information technology processes facilitate the organization in efficient management and processing of information. One of the important information technology processes from the organizational perspective is information storage and retrieval. Data storage and retrieval is the fundamental information technology process associated with every organization. It deals with keeping the data stored in an organized form, which facilitates the later access. Over the past few decades, high speed computers, and efficient data storage techniques have boosted up the information storage and retrieval processes. Also, the storage technologies and devices have become cost effective and smaller in physical sizes due to the constant technological advancements. The paper discusses the information technologies that involve in the process of information storage and retrieval. The man mechanisms used for information storage and retrieval, benefits of information technology use for the process. All of these factors will help to devise the information technology policy and plan for the organization, from the data storage perspective.

Executive Summary

In order to devise the information technology policy for any organization, it is crucial to have an in depth understanding of the business process. Also, the policy maker must be aware about the needs and benefits of integrating the business process with the information technology. The paper describes the information necessary for the information system policy maker, in lieu of the process of information storage and retrieval.

Data is the essence of organization. Efficient techniques for data storage and retrieval ensure the data reliability, security and timely recovery. The techniques involve collection, storage and timely access of data, sometimes depending upon customized queries. The nature of data access depends on the nature of application or organization. Advanced computational and software technologies provide the government, commercial and other organizations with the efficient storage and retrieval techniques along with the storage devices, so that they can keep huge amounts of data stored in an organized way.

The information technology use for data storage and retrieval has significant advantages over the manual data storage. The paper includes the motivations for the organizations to shift the data storage and retrieval process from manual to the use of information technology. The paper highlights major benefits the organization may have by utilizing information technology for the data storage process.

The advanced data storage technologies such as optical disk storage and networked storage are presented, for the consideration of policy maker, while devising the policy for the large or distributed organization. Also, the security needs of information systems are discussed briefly.

Information Technology Process: Data Storage and Retrieval

Introduction

The process starts with the data collection, and its storage using various storage media, software and storage mechanisms. Most of the organizations rely on information and communication technologies for making the process of data ...