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Follow on Google News | CYA Predicts Growing Demand for Granular, Application-Aware ECM Recovery in 2008Compliance and application availability demands driving need for near zero impact recoverability of information
By: CYA Technologies Compliance mandates requiring the preservation and recoverability of both content and its associated metadata (audit trails, digital signatures, renditions, etc.) in their original state are increasingly affecting multiple industries. Companies in the life sciences, financial services, and chemical, oil, and gas industries, among others, must comply with a variety of mandates, including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, SEC 17a-4, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure eDiscovery Amendment, and EPA 40 CFR 792.185. Ramifications of non-compliance can include significant legal fines, business shutdowns and brand exposure. While traditional enterprise backup and recovery solutions enable companies to restore the ECM system to its last good state in the event of a system failure, this results in the loss of all content and metadata added to the system since the last backup—which has often been performed days or weeks prior to the failure. If the lost information is needed for eDiscovery proceedings, for example, organizations find themselves unable to produce the information in a timely manner as required. While lost content and its metadata can be painstakingly recreated and re-associated, the act of doing so means that the information is no longer in its original state, putting organizations in violation of regulatory mandates requiring the preservation and recoverability of the original information. In addition, traditional recovery methods typically require that the entire ECM system be brought down -- not a desirable option in today’s world where businesses expect 24/7 availability in order to optimize productivity and worldwide accessibility. According to Gartner, “There are many reasons why businesses expect 100% availability from their IT business systems. First and foremost is the increased business process dependency on their IT business systems…Other drivers for 24/7 availability include globalization and expanded hours for customers.”1 Furthermore, there is a “major reduction in RTO (recovery time objectives) and RPO (recovery point objectives) driven by business requirements“ “We live in the information world, and we manage and consume information using applications. Consequently, to meet RTOs and RPOs we have to focus first and foremost on ensuring application- CYA believes that the growing need for application- “2008 will be a banner year for CYA as more industries recognize that granular, application- "Your disaster recovery plan may be rock solid, but the majority of ECM recovery needs involve one or multiple documents that have been lost or corrupted due to human and programmatic errors, viruses or malfeasance – incidents which often go unreported because the information is thought to be recoverable only with a traditional solution that requires taking the system offline,” continued Crandall. “IT managers need to know that there are ways to recover information that don’t result in system downtime, additional data loss, data synchronicity issues and compliance risk. CYA solutions provide a cost-effective way to reduce unplanned downtime, recover quickly from information loss, enable compliance and decrease the frequency with which the ECM system needs to brought down for backups.” For more information about CYA, visit www.cya.com or call +1.203.513.3111 ext. 549. About CYA Technologies CYA Technologies (www.cya.com) # # # CYA Technologies (www.cya.com) Website: www.cya.com End
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