EMC has announced new compliance functionality for its
EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) solution.
"The latest version of Centera's operating software, CentraStar
V2.3, extends EMC Centera's market and technology leadership," said
Alex Robertson, technology solutions manager at EMC.
"It delivers new levels of performance and enhanced
manageability, helping customers to maximise the business value of
their ever-growing online fixed content archives,” said
Robertson.
“This new release enables organisations with compliance
requirements to simplify information retention and disposition
management, as well as to address strict privacy laws concerning
personal data."
The Centera features include retention classes, which aim to
provide additional capability to enforce and change retention
policies for an entire class of content, instead of managing each
piece of content individually.
"This enhancement makes it easier to deal with both planned and
unforeseen corporate policy or regulatory changes," said Robertson.
"With this new capability, Centera becomes the first and only
storage solution to automate this critical retention management
function."
In many countries, protecting an individual's privacy is viewed
as an ever-growing regulatory concern. Audited deletes permit an
application to easily address this regulatory requirement through a
tightly controlled process. Again, Centera is said to be the first
storage solution to automate the key processes around this
requirement, while meeting the most stringent compliance
requirements related to retention and protection of data.
The new configurable default retention period feature aims to
allow the storage administrator to specify a default retention
period in the event that an application does not or cannot assign
one.
"Furthermore, this new version is backwards-compatible with all
installed Centera models, delivering investment protection to
existing Centera customers," concluded Robertson.
Written by
Computing SA staff