North American Systems
International
Where Innovation
Meets Solutions
North American Systems
International
Where Innovation
Meets Solutions
With new requirements revolving around the importance of electronically stored information in terms of litigation and compliance with the SEC and regulations, email data must be stored consistently for longer periods of time, adhering to legally-defensible data protection & destruction policies.
There are multiple costs involved with keeping email data for longer periods of time for things such as eDiscovery. Each users’ email box grows daily, raising storage requirements constantly, which can cause email storage, backup and archival costs to spiral out of control very quickly.
As the storage resources and devices dedicated to email storage continue to grow at a rapid pace, IT departments have more difficulty managing the data. If eDiscovery requests are submitted, the cost, effort and resources that must be dedicated to fulfill the requests are expensive, and the IT staff dedicated to fulfilling the request are usually unable to do their usual tasks in a consistent manner, creating additional burden on the IT department and remaining staff not dedicated to the pending eDiscovery request.
New eDiscovery rules dictate that requests be fulfilled in a timely manner, and many times, a deadline is given, or the IT departments is required to respond with an estimate of how long the eDiscovery request fulfillment will take. It may be hard for an IT department to determine how long the fulfillment will take if it has to dig through piles of nightly backup tapes.
In addition, new FCRP rules penalize businesses for the accidental destruction of data, and instruct juries to assume the data destroyed was damaging, in certain court battles. Also, mid-level IT management & storage administrators may be subpoenaed to submit depositions regarding data retention and protection policies. Businesses that fail to fully comply with eDiscovery requests, or submit incomplete responses are often penalized.
eDiscovery is requirements driving businesses to re-examine their archival and retention solutions. Various regulations from governmental organizations, industry groups, and internal compliance are requiring that an increasing amount of data be stored on WORM media.
...electronic records must be preserved exclusively in a non-rewriteable and non-erasable format...
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov/rules/interp/34-47806.htm
CommVault’s Archive Compliance Storage solution enables IT departments to greatly simplify the archival of data for a number of regulatory compliance reasons. With this software, IT departments & businesses can deploy a solution that enables the creation of a multi-tiered storage infrastructure that can use any variety of storage devices, including CAS (Content Addressable Storage).
WORM and CAS devices and platforms can be seamlessly leveraged and managed from CommVault’s Unified Console, to simplify the cost-effective long-term retention of fixed content. In addition, capabilities and applications such as replication and snapshot recovery can be managed from the Unified Console. This software helps maintain the performance of your storage systems, while providing transparent access to archived data by using intelligent data movement.
Storage utilization can be efficiently provisioned to handle growing capacity needs, as policies can be fine-tuned from the centralized database to balance performance requirements with capacity constraints. In addition, CommVault’s SIS (Single Instance Store) helps remove duplicate content to control capacity requirements, and it integrates with advanced deduplication technologies such as Data Domain.
North American Systems has been providing IT solutions, sevices and hardware for over 15 years.
If you want learn more about what we can do for your IT, please contact us at 800-927-7474, or send us an email at sales@nasi.com to get in touch with one of our experienced account executives.
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