Data Retention Policies

Data Retention Policies

Many governments around the world have new regulations requiring companies to retain data, including e-mail and IM messages. This means every company—from the mom and pop store on the corner to multi-national corporations—have to keep backup copies of their data for many years, even decades. But many IT departments have difficulty accessing data in an emergency, let alone if served with a subpoena requesting information from five years ago. So how can IT departments ensure that they have access to that data when necessary?

On top of the problem of having a complete backup available, many tape archiving systems are quickly obsolete. You may be working with a tape device that isn’t even made any more and that your current tapes don’t support.  Most IT personnel just cross their fingers and hope they’re never called on to produce data from several years back.

But there is a way to make sure you have data access without relying on good luck. The solution is to implement a disk-based recovery system in your IT environment. With disk-based recovery, information is saved onto more reliable media that can be archived for years. Plus, you don’t need any special equipment to restore your data, just the original software you used to create the backup in the first place. In addition, you can archive the disk-based data onto tape to comply with government regulations.  Plus in the event of a disaster, disk-based solutions have the added benefit of enabling you to recover much more quickly than you would be able to using your tape backups.

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