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Best Practices for Cloud Computing: Records Management Considerations

Best Practices for Cloud Computing: Records Management Considerations

This document is a topical overview intended to provide information to state and local governments about common cloud computing concerns with regards to their records. Topics included: state agency-specific compliance issues, understanding and negotiating the terms of the service level agreement , performance and monitoring, service interruptions, costs, security and privacy, removing data from the cloud and avoiding vendor lock-in, and e-discovery guidelines.

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Digital Records Policies and Guidelines

  • Archival Process for Data and Image Preservation: The Management and Preservation of Digital Media
  • Best Practices for Cloud Computing: Records Management Considerations
  • Best Practices for Digital Permanence
  • Best Practices for Electronic Communications Usage in North Carolina: Guidelines for Implementing a Strategy for Text and Instant Messages
  • Best Practices for Electronic Communications Usage in North Carolina: Text and Instant Message
  • Best Practices for File-Naming
  • Best Practices for Local Government Social Media Usage in North Carolina
  • Best Practices for State Agency Social Media Usage in North Carolina
  • Checklist for Scanning Contracts
  • Collection Procedures for State Government Web Sites Using Archive-It
  • Conversion of Electronic Records to Microfilm
  • Digital Signature Policy Guidelines
  • DocuSign How-to Guide
  • E-mail as a Public Record in North Carolina: A Policy for Its Retention and Disposition
  • File Format Guidelines for Management and Long-Term Retention of Electronic Records
  • Global Shared Storage Guidelines
  • Guidelines for Digital Imaging Systems
  • Guidelines for E-mail as a Public Record in North Carolina: Tips and Tricks for Using Microsoft Exchange Software to Manage E-mail
  • Guidelines for Maintaining and Preserving Records of Web-Based Activities
  • Guidelines for Managing Trustworthy Digital Public Records
  • Human-Readable Preservation Duplicates
  • Metadata as a Public Record in North Carolina: Best Practices Guidelines for Its Retention and Disposition
  • One Drive for Business: Best Practices for Usage
  • Procedures for Manual Collection of Web-Based Activities
  • Protect Your DVDs and CDs
  • Request for Destruction of Records Reproduced by Electronic Means
  • Sample Electronic Records and Imaging Policy for Use by Local Agencies
  • Security Backup Files as Public Records In North Carolina
  • Standard for Automated Web Site Capture
  • Web Site Content Assessment Table
  • Web Site Description Form

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