EMC has introduced the EMC Centera Compliance Edition, a specialised content addressed storage (CAS) system designed to meet and exceed today`s strictest records retention regulations, thereby helping organisations respond to heightened regulatory scrutiny surrounding the retention and preservation of their electronic records.
"EMC Centera CAS is designed from the ground up to solve the challenges associated with managing and storing fixed content, or unchanging data, such as document images, e-mail, X-rays and medical records," says Alex Robertson, Technology Solutions Group manager, EMC SA.
New features of Centera Compliance Edition include retention enforcement, which enables compliance officers to set hardened retention periods on electronic records, and satisfies various regulations. Another important feature is the enhanced disposition, or "shredding", which ensures that deleted data cannot be recovered using disk scanning tools.
"Compliance with records retention regulations is becoming the hottest issue in IT," says Robertson. "Although regulated industries are the first to be impacted, it is only a matter of time before data permanence is mandated in every IT department.
"As a result, there will be a huge demand for cost-efficient disk-based systems capable of storing objects permanently, in an unalterable state. EMC Centera will be the first step toward such a solution."
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