Another impetus for storage software purchases is organisations' need to comply with new rules related to data retention, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, said Bill North, an analyst at IDC. The storage-software market jumped by 18 per cent in the...
For example, within the European Union data-retention laws call for certain classes of information to be expunged after a given time. While user organisations face extra work from modern-day regulations surrounding risk and accountability, many...
Companies are still woefully ill-informed about the compliance impact of regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), with many believing they can hand over responsibility by simply outsourcing it, according to new research.
Ciena's Smith echoed this need for "IT directors, as well as executive management, to be educated about data retention" to steer their businesses through the common pitfalls of either doing too much or too little.
The company also markets devices built for complying with data retention regulations, privacy protection and outsourcing security. Customers have the desire to add another layer of protection, and they have an obligation to do so in many cases due...
Mobile phone operators and internet telephony companies will soon face the "onerous burden" of getting their systems compliant with new European data retention regulations. The EU Directive on Data Retention requires communication service providers...