Johannesburg, 14 Jul 2004
EMC has announced new compliance functionality for its EMC Centera CAS (content addressed storage) solution.
"The new version of Centera`s operating software, CentraStar V2.3, extends EMC Centera`s market and technology leadership," says Alex Robertson, Technology Solutions Manager, EMC SA. "It delivers new levels of performance and enhanced manageability, helping customers to maximise the business value of their ever-growing online fixed content archives.
"This new release enables organisations with compliance requirements to simplify information retention and disposition management, as well as address strict privacy laws concerning personal data."
The new Centera features include Retention Classes, which 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," says 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 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 allows the storage administrator to specify a default retention period in the event an application does not or cannot assign one.
"Furthermore, this new version is backward-compatible with all installed Centera models, delivering investment protection to existing Centera customers," says Robertson.
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