Governance and Regulatory Compliance

Mitigate risk and improve business operations.

Whether you need to implement an archival or enterprise content management solutions to meet your compliance and operational goals, you need a storage and data management infrastructure that is flexible and scalable to meet all of your current and future regulatory and business requirements. NetApp delivers a comprehensive suite of standards-based, simple-to-use, and cost-effective compliance solutions to hundreds of enterprises worldwide to enable them to meet the most stringent regulations today and in the future. Enable compliance for your enterprise–in the data center or remote offices, for structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data–with the right compliance solutions from NetApp.

• Ease of Management. The unique, unified architecture enables mixing and matching of protocols, classes of storage, retention policies, and security models within the same array to simplify the archive infrastructure.
• Integrated Data Protection. Backup and restore and disaster recovery are built into the storage system to improve recovery and radically simplify management.
• Flexibility. From the primary data center to a branch office, NetApp compliance solutions have the flexibility to meet your existing needs and quickly scale or adapt to future changes in regulatory requirements
• Application integration. Because NetApp uses open standards such as NFS and CIFS, you can be sure that applications will integrate easily.
• Performance. With the tremendous growth in data retention requirements and legal discovery, compliance storage service levels are becoming critical to business operations and risk management.

Solution Info
Data Classification and Migration
Understand data within your enterprise to arm yourself with the information required to achieve compliance requirements: tamper-proof retention, privacy, disaster recovery, and so on. You can apply custom policies to automatically tag and move data to the right infrastructure that delivers the required compliance requirements at the least cost

Scalable, Cost-Effective Storage PlatformsWith NetApp, you can turn on compliance functionality (WORM and data privacy) on any NetApp FAS or NearStore® platforms. With NetApp, compliance data is not a silo; it can coexist with your regular enterprise data.

Tamper-Proof Retention (WORM)Comply with the most stringent data retention regulations such as SEC Rule 17 a-4 with SnapLock® and LockVault™ software for disk-based WORM storage.

Data Privacy and SecurityData ONTAP® which runs on NetApp storage systems comes with robust authorization, access control and logging capabilities. In addition, industry-leading NetApp DataFort™ provides you advanced solutions for meeting the most stringent data privacy regulations.

Disaster RecoveryNetApp provides you the most flexible and cost-effective solutions to meet disaster recovery requirements for regulations.

Search and Legal DiscoveryIn the event of litigation, you can precisely retrieve the needle from the haystack... expeditiously!

Integrated Solutions with Partners
Tightly integrated solutions with industry-leading ISVs to enable e-mail archival, file archival, database archival, and enterprise content management and records management solutions. The close NetApp partnerships offer you seamless compliance solutions that are supported by NetApp Global Services.