The past decade has seen a proliferation of regulations requiring very specific treatment of information. These regulations not only dictate how long organizations must retain certain information, but also place requirements on how information must be stored and controlled.

Unfortunately, most organizations are not faced with a single regulation to comply with, but rather a series of requirements. These unique sets of compliance issues create a complex and critical problem for IT managers to resolve.  Plasmon understands these issues and works hard to design products and solution to give you fundamental capabilities to aid in complying with regulations. By integrating software and hardware Plasmon solutions like the UDO Archive Appliance and the Enterprise Active Archive, Plasmon helps organizations through out the world reduce business risk and comply with critical regulations.

Benefits

Permanence and longevity – unlike disk-only solutions, UDO media can be stored for more than 50 years without loss of data integrity, which complies with even the longest data retention requirements

Authenticity – Plasmon offers hardware-based WORM – so it cannot be hacked like software-based WORM emulation

Flexibility – Plasmon solutions combine hardware and software to accommodate multiple sources of archive objects in the same architecture – eliminating archive silos

Scalability – solutions are sized to meet the needs of your operations today and grow with your organization over time

Continuity – flexible, low-cost disaster-recovery options to help ensure disaster-recovery requirements are met

Security – encryption and other advanced features, give you optimal flexibility to implement security requirements

Low cost of ownership– Plasmon solutions utilize tiered storage, providing the least expensive total cost of ownership and greener solutions compared to other storage options

Customer Experiences

New York – based Brokerage Firm –
“With this combination of hardware and software, we’ve boosted our data’s accessibility, which was important for complying with the SEC rules... By incorporating a feature that provides real-time data replication to a disaster-recovery site, the solution provides us with a way to implement our disaster-recovery plan.” – IT Manager, New York – based Brokerage Firm

Cabell Huntington Hospital
“The UDO Archive Appliance was the optimal solution that met all requirements – HIPAA compliance, security, fast access, longevity, and cost.” – Sanjay Shah, Vice President and CIO, Cabel Huntington Hospital

Hooper Holmes, Inc., a leading provider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry
“When you consider that we receive nearly 30,000 emails on a daily basis, and regulations mandate that every email we send and receive be kept for up to three years, there was no question that we needed a long-term, easily accessible archive solution. Plasmon’s archival solution has provided us with an easy way to protect our assets while ensuring we are in compliance with industry regulations.” – Art Cooper, System Administrator, Hooper Holmes

Agfa Healthcare
“Ensuring that we could provide a PACS archive solution that helps customers meet HIPAA compliance at a reasonable cost was a critical requirement. This was guaranteed with the performance, longevity, and authenticity of the UDO Archive Appliance.” ­– Lenny Reznik, Director Enterprise Imaging and Information, Agfa Healthcare

Our Partners

Plasmon works with a wide variety of best in class technology partners to create solutions to meet your compliance needs.  To see a full listing of our technology partners, click here.

Plasmon Products

Enterprise Active Archive – is the most complete archiving product on the market. The EAA integrates the UDO Archive Appliance with software to create an intelligent, multi-tier archiving platform that manages information and its retention.

Archive File Manager – integrates discovery, contextual classification, and automated data management into one intelligent file system using policies to pull static data off NAS and SAN storage, and migrating it to the UDO Archive Appliance or the Enterprise Active Archive.

UDO Archive Appliance – is designed for the long-term storage of archive records. Its architecture combines the performance and simplicity of network-attached RAID, with the longevity and authenticity of UDO.

UDO2 – is not “your father’s optical media.” Rather, UDO2 is the state of the art storage media for long-term archiving. To learn more about all of Plasmon’s product, click here

Other Information

Strategic Brief – HIPAA
Strategic Brief – Sarbanes-Oxley
Strategic Brief – SEC Rule 17a-4
Strategic Brief – 21 CFR Part 11

White Paper - The Impact of the New FRCP Rules on Your Business, Osterman Research