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Next Big Thing: "Coherent Deletion"?
Bryan Betts of Techworld writes about the excitingly named Storage Networking World Europe event held in Frankfurt this month, and while storage issues can be deadly dull for most business lines, one item should catch any compliance-conscious business owner’s eye.

According to "storage guru" Jon Toigo, "the next big thing will be the need for coherent deletion. The issue here is that once your data is old enough to escape [Sarbanes-Oxley] and suchlike regulations, you want to delete it – both to conform to data protection and privacy laws, and to avoid the possibility of 'smoking guns' being found by enemies using court orders to dig through your data. The challenge is that it has to be deleted thoroughly, from everywhere, even archives and off-site backups."

So while you've been feverishly figuring out how and where to keep all those bits of data floating around your business in a clean, accessible and orderly fashion, now you’ve got to figure out how and when to get rid of them across the organisation?

Now, where did I leave that digital shredding machine...?

Posted: 21/09/2006 Comments: 0
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