Not long ago, email archive infrastructure was primarily developed and built on-site; that is, within the premises of a traditional brick-and-mortar structure, which is usually the organization’s physical location. Cloud archiving was not even a factor to consider. However, as email communications slowly but steadily declined, and even considered by some as archaic, as a
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Email Archive Solutions for Compliance Officers in FINRA-Regulated Companies
Image by Mihai Eustatiu on FreeImages Here at Data Storage Corporation, we have specifically designed our email archive solutions to enable FINRA-regulated companies to review exchanged messages among traders faster. One of the requirements of FINRA that our email archive solutions can address is conducting a random sampling of messages that contain a specific
Email Archive Solutions | Message Logic
Corporations, institutions, and organizations need an organized email archiving system to store and retrieve email communications and other electronic records efficiently. Email archive solutions also need to have reliable security measures in place to prevent unauthorized access, particularly to sensitive data. For these reasons and more, Data Storage Corporation brings you one of the most
Tips for iSeries Disaster Recovery: Threat and Contingency Assessment
Conducting iSeries disaster recovery planning, regardless of the scale of the applications and data being handled, should start with a well-defined threat assessment matrix. This matrix includes physical infrastructure loss, communications downtime, power outages, and security breakdown. Physical Infrastructure Because the iSeries range of mainframes is found in all sorts of data centers, there is
Email Archive Solutions and Sarbanes Oxley: A Primer
It is nearly impossible to think about corporate audits without thinking of email archive solutions. However, there was a time when organizations took these systems rather lightly – simply as a repository of old documents that could be deleted at any given time, instead of thinking of them as a goldmine of information that
Federal and state government agencies handle massive amounts of email daily; thus, they use email archive solutions to store old messages. This is not just an operational requirement but also a regulatory and legal matter. Two sets of regulations govern the use of electronic media for sending and storing messages: the Federal Records Act (FRA)
Email Archiving: Complying with HIPAA Requirements
In the field of healthcare, there is no relationship more sacred than the one between the doctor and the patient, and a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality is a grave offense. In the healthcare and health insurance sectors, email archiving is considered one way of safeguarding protected health information (PHI) and patients’ personal information. Protected health
Email Archiving: Three Capabilities Your System Must Have
Regardless of industry, email archiving is one of an organization’s most essential tools when it comes to ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley and similar laws such as HIPAA and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act, regulatory bodies, courts, and auditors are now stringent with the way they conduct their investigations,
iSeries Disaster Recovery for Small- to Medium-sized Organizations
While IBM has replaced the iSeries range of servers with the Power Systems line, the former still enjoys wide use in small- and medium-sized organizations, particularly those that use legacy systems. Aside from the threat of obsolescence, organizations also face the risk of large-scale system downtime sans the availability of iSeries disaster recovery solutions. A
Email Archive Solutions: Staying in Sync with Disaster Recovery Systems
In many organizations, email archive solutions and disaster recovery belong to separate units within the IT reporting structure. This is especially true for organizations which have just begun planning or executing disaster recovery plans and have unclear email retention and archival policies. One message could have at least five different copies stored in different places