Technology to archive years and even decades worth of data is more viable than ever. Accessibility to this archive is critical. Tape as an archive does not want to be left out either. Cloud storage may also provide a better long term operational efficiency as well. The ability to seamlessly move data to and from an archive optimized disk repository without constant IT intervention is critical. The transparent recovery that file virtualization provides is key. In a keep everything strategy, policies need to be set broadly and then executed automatically.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/revisiting-the-keep-it-all-forever-retention-strategy