The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has contributed to an overall greater awareness among both consumers and enterprises of the value of data. As discussed in a previous Storage Switzerland blog, the value of and requirement for…
In a few years, U.S. based IT professionals may look back at the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and wish they had something as easy for their data governance regulation. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is part of…
Join Storage Switzerland and Aparavi for our PodCast dealing with data privacy regulations like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The regulations potentially force organizations of all sizes to rethink how they…
What is the default retention policy for your backups? If you are like most organizations we speak to, the answer is typically three or more years. The next question is why, as in why is your backup retention so long?…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes specific demands on organizations based in and doing business in the European Union (EU). Now several US states are considering similar legislation and California has already passed a GDPR-like law. Clearly this is…
For decades data center best practices were to isolate backup and archive. “Backup is not archive” was the mantra. The reality is most data centers ignored the mantra and used their backup process for all of their data retention. Today,…
Data Privacy regulations like GDPR require that data be protected and managed differently than it has been in the past. Organizations need to prove they are protecting data, securing it, retaining it, and they need to, if a user requests…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) forces organizations to evolve from a data protection mindset to a data management mindset. IT can no longer let backups store data on secondary storage as giant blobs of ones and zeros. The process…
An aspect of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar regulations like California’s Consumer Privacy Act, is the “right to be forgotten.” Simply stated this means that a user or customer of an organization’s resources has…
Many IT Planners look at the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a distinctly European problem. The reality is the GDPR and regulations like it, impact businesses around the world. GDPR impacts any business that does business…
