Companies must be prepared for data storage and backup compliance
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Companies Must Prepare for Data Storage and Backup Compliance
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Are you aware of the data backup and storage regulations affecting your company? Do you understand the penalties for non-compliance? Discover how easy it is to secure your data and meet even the strictest legislation requirements.Article Body:
As data storage regulations evolve, companies need to be proactive in adapting their IT systems. The EU is set to adopt key recommendations from the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, meaning UK firms must manage clear guidelines on storing emails and documents. IT managers should immediately consider necessary procedures and technologies to ensure compliance.Currently, data storage regulations are fairly lenient, but within the next 18 months to two years, the volume of required data retention is expected to increase significantly. Technologies like email archiving, write-once read-many media, information lifecycle management, and content-aware storage are essential considerations. Many companies may simply need to enhance their existing systems.
New regulations are likely to mandate that archival solutions must ensure data integrity by preventing alterations and maintaining data for specified periods before automatic deletion.
A survey of 493 UK companies revealed that regulatory compliance significantly impacts the data storage strategies of 87% of organizations. Backup and recovery are critical to the data protection strategies of 93% of these companies. Future strategies for 78% of organizations will include Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) technology due to its affordability and flexibility. Recent deployments of D2D2T have reduced backup times by over 70%, from 15 hours to less than four, leading to significant cost savings in tape management.
Product features are prioritized over brand by 82% of organizations, while a slight preference exists for specialized storage suppliers (51%) over general IT providers (49%).
This survey underscores that compliance is a driving force in corporate storage security policy, with more companies expected to deploy D2D2T technology.
However, larger companies with substantial IT budgets and staff find it easier to implement advanced systems like SANs and NASs. Smaller businesses, such as legal, accounting, and medical practices with only a couple of servers, face the same compliance requirements. Options like tape backups come with costs and require trusted staff to manage them. Can you ensure backups have worked reliably, and do you trust magnetic media for long-term storage? Optical archiving is another option, but it's even more costly and still requires offsite storage.
Given the rapid data growth driven by new regulations, consider adopting a fully automated, secure offsite backup and archival solution with no upfront costs. This ensures continuous data availability, regardless of disasters.
For more information about secure offsite data backup solutions, please visit [Perfect Backup](http://www.perfectbackup.co.uk).
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