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Cristie Storage Seminar
Compliant Data Retention Ian Cameron
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Overview

• Main drivers for data retention
• Strategic issues
• Formulating a plan
• Implementation
• Testing and review

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Main drivers for data retention

• Legislation
• E-mail and internet
• Litigation
• Good business practice
• Competitive advantage
• The data deluge

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Regulatory requirements

• Long established requirements applicable to all
• - Taxation
• - Data Protection Act
• Regulations applicable to specific organisations
• - Insurance
• - Banks
• - Public sector
• New requirements in process
• Government initiatives
• - Patient records

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Computer weekly
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E-mail and internet

• E-mail creating contracts
• E-mail is data (Data Protection Act)
• Internet transactions
• Discrimination and reputation

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Litigation

• General commercial
• Employment contracts
• - Constructive dismissal
• - Equal opportunities
• Negligence claims

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Good business practice

• Record keeping of all transactions
• - Customers
• - Suppliers
• - Staff
• - Tax
• Non transactional records
• - Job applicants
• - Health and safety
• - General correspondence
• - Marketing

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Competitive advantage

• Customer profiling
• Direct marketing
• Data mining
• Planning

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The Data Deluge
Over 2 Exabytes of data generated in 2003
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Data Storage Lifecycle
High
High
Hard Disk (RAID)
Off Line
Frequency of Access to Data
Volume of Data
Low
Low
Days
Years
Time
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Strategic issues

• Define data retention policies
• Define speed of data retrieval
• Delete expired data
• The difficulties in categorising data
• What about duplicated data?
• Tamper proofing data
• Backup and recovery

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Implementing a plan

• Data storage hardware and locations
• Types of data storage on-line, near-line or
  off-line
• Network infra-structure
• Backup software
• Recovery planning
• Test

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Thank You