How are regulations affecting data and storage? New data compliance laws and regulations -- and stricter enforcement of existing regulations -- are forcing companies to examine their processes for saving and archiving corporate records. Furthermore, these regulations are increasingly recognizing e-mail and other types of electronic documents as corporate records. Companies must comply with laws and regulations such as the following: Sarbanes-Oxley Act Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act SEC Rule 17a-4 FDA 21 CFR Part 11 HIPAA Privacy Rule & Security Rule Data Protection Act DoD 5015.2 Standard Many companies are uncertain as to which electronic documents need to be saved, and what are the best architectures and processes for doing so. Additionally, e-mail and other electronic documents are increasingly the focus of discovery processes during litigation, and companies need to find better ways of finding, recovering and organizing older e-mails. Organizations need to balance these requirements and potential liabilities in terms of total compliance costs. In general, regulatory compliance and litigation issues are requiring companies to retain more data and consume increasing amounts of expensive storage. The issues span legal, business process and technical issues across the organization, from compliance officers to message administrators and storage administrators. In many organizations, departments such as legal and IT have different views on record retention and disposition. They may not have a common conceptual framework for addressing the issues and coming to agreement. By establishing that framework and helping define the policy goals and requirements, Contoural can help an organization reach agreement -- and enable it to move forward with a program of effective actions that reduce risk, lower cost and ensure compliance. In response to these external and internal policy drivers, many companies are moving away from deletion-oriented policies, and adopting intelligent retention-oriented policies. These approaches are enabled by intelligent data classification and stratification processes, and by migration of less-active data onto less-expensive storage platforms. Contoural helps companies understand what data needs to be saved, how that information should be saved, and the best tools and processes to meet these requirements. Our innovative approach helps companies navigate through the new regulations and requirements for saving and archiving electronic documents. It also addresses how to best meet litigation discovery requirements and end-user productivity needs. Once the needs are understood and the policies defined, Contoural can also help an organization architect archiving and storage systems and develop processes to meet these needs at the lowest cost. A number of white papers, articles and reports explore these issues and solutions in more detail: White Papers News and Events Go to Top  |  Back to About Contoural
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