Compliance
Government laws and regulations to ensure the protection of data have increasingly played a larger part in the archiving industry. Twenty years ago most organizations archived because they wanted to, now many more archive because they have to.
Regulations specify the type of storage that must be used, securely storing data in a read-only format, and the length of time that data must be maintained. The counterview is the secure disposition of this data after the mandatory time period has elapsed.
QStar software supports all forms of archive technology including WORM (write once read many) and, for those technologies that are inherently rewritable, QStar HSM Archive Management software offers retention management to temporarily switch the file to read-only and delete it at the end of the set period.
QStar Retention Manager for Disk software provides a simple, low cost method to create an archive using Disk or RAID.
