Backup Technology eases the complications of Regulatory Compliance issues by establishing retention rules. It is possible to select a time period for which data of various types needs to be held securely for regulatory compliance and business best practice.
This gives you the peace of mind that not only is all of your data protected offsite and available for restore, but retained and archived for your designated time period in a fully automated secure process.
Critically, Backup Technology allows all public and private sector organisations to simplify compliance with Data Protection, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and requests under the Freedom of Information Act. By providing effective backup and archiving, you will not only meet but exceed all data accessibility challenges.
Compliance regulations do not distinguish data centre data from remote site data, both must be accounted for. Many companies admit that with their existing tape backup and recovery systems, responding to a request for data might take days or weeks. Protracted searches can mean not being able to satisfy regulatory requests or not producing data in time to fend off litigation.
Destroying data on time is just as important as securely retaining it. Backup Lifecycle Management, is a critical element of controlling backup and archive copies of data as part of the total lifecycle of the data.
If you think you have destroyed certain data, but there is a long-lost backup copy left behind, it could impose unnecessary risk. Being able to align your backup retention policies with primary data retention policies is essential.
