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Data protection regulations and compliance

• April 24, 2009 24 Apr'09

  How to evaluate a data classification product

  A data classification product should locate and organize data based on user-defined rules. It should also help move and migrate data to the appropriate storage subsystem.

• March 12, 2009 12 Mar'09

  Email retention policy key to compliance

  Archiving email is a necessary part of a legal compliance program and, if done well, can boost employee productivity. So what's the best way to develop an email retention policy?

• October 30, 2008 30 Oct'08

  Taxi firm hails email archiving savings from Mimosa NearPoint

  Learn how Addison Lee contained Microsoft Exchange server sprawl and shortened backup windows by choosing Mimosa NearPoint email archiving.

• July 17, 2008 17 Jul'08

  ILM diary: Time to select the file archiving supplier

  Lundbeck's ILM project reaches vendor selection stage, which means bringing in outside expertise and discovering that formulating questions for prospective suppliers is not always as easy as one might think.

• June 19, 2008 19 Jun'08

  National Library of Wales chooses optical disk media for digital archive

  With its digital archive growing at a rate of 2 to 3 TB annually, the National Library of Wales chooses Plasmon ultra-density optical media for long-term storage of data.

• June 09, 2008 09 Jun'08

  Hull university turns to BridgeHead archiving software in tiered storage move

  The University of Hull implements archiving software from BridgeHead as part of a 25-year data lifecycle plan driven by green storage policy to lower the TCO of storing data.

• June 05, 2008 05 Jun'08

  Pharma firm sets out on ILM journey to shrink backup windows, classify data

  An IT infrastructure designer begins a diary of his company's implementation of ILM and its plans for data classification and archiving to curtail growing data volumes, reduce backup windows and improve data retention.

• May 01, 2008 01 May'08

  SNIA: Expect XAM products by late 2008

  Products based on the eXtensible Access Method spec, which addresses long-term data retention and migration issues, will be available by year-end. SNIA's Wayne Adams expects XAM to unlock the CAS market, but will also find application in enterprise ...

• April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08

  CommVault boosts Simpana e-discovery and data reduction

  CommVault's first service pack for Simpana 7.0 includes e-discovery updates and new integration between replication and file-level single instancing.

• April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08

  Law firm set to climb email compliance mountain

  Michelmores plans to implement email compliance, document management and inter-site replication following successful Hitachi SAN deployment.

• March 19, 2008 19 Mar'08

  Archiving can complicate backups if you're not careful

  Adding an archiving system to your storage environment helps reduce costs long term, but if you're not careful it can throw a wrench into the backup environment.

• March 07, 2008 07 Mar'08

  Mergers happen quickly but backup fallout can last years

  When organisations merge the question of what to do with back ups acquired needs a serious strategic approach to minimise management headaches

• February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08

  Plasmon tries to raise fresh cash

  Struggling optical archive supplier is looking to refinance to stay in the game.

• January 21, 2008 21 Jan'08

  Email in the dock - would yours survive legal scrutiny?

  Increasingly onerous compliance obligations and growing data volumes are driving companies to invest in email archiving systems. What approach is right for your business?

• January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08

  Disclosure becomes a fact of life in leaky Britain

  There's still no law in Britain that forces companies to disclose a data security breach. But few organisations would now be reckless enough to try to hide the fact.

• January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08

  Data Protection Act compliance moves up security agenda

  Companies ignoring Data Protection Act compliance will have to strengthen their security and auditing procedures after a recent spate of high-profile data breaches. New push for data privacy involves Sarbanes-Oxley Act and PCI DSS.

• January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08

  New business continuity standard a hit

  A newly-minted British Standard – BS25999 part two – which specifies business continuity best practices is proving a must-have for UK firms who want to demonstrate compliance.