New regulations and electronic data discovery requirements call for new digital archive measures. Tape is not an effective digital archive medium, especially for business compliance data. Heidi Biggar of Enterprise Strategy Group discusses how the Enterprise Active Archive (EAA) provides an ideal solution. It creates a multi-tiered active archive for cost-effective, long-term accessibility to compliance data.

According to Biggar, organizations cannot continue keeping non-transactional data on primary storage systems. Archive platforms such as the EAA make better economic sense. The EAA can be configured to meet your specific archive requirements using both UDO technology and RAID disk. Integrated software enables the movement of data among these tiers according to user-defined policies.

In December 2006 the federal government implemented the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) Amendment that created new rules and procedures for eDiscovery of electronic documents, emails etc. While many Compliance regulations typically only affected large or publicly trade companies, the Amendments to the FRCP applies to organizations of all sizes and types. Download the Osterman FRCP research white paper to learn more. Download this informative report