Effectively managing information in today's business climate is more critical than ever. New regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires that corporate executives certify internal financial controls, are driving a need to manage information over every stage of its life-cycle. Other regulations such as SEC Rule 17a-4 for financial services, HIPAA for healthcare, and 21 CFR Part 11 for the life sciences industries, are requiring companies to identify and retain specific information for various amounts of time to avoid potential civil or criminal liability.

Information life-cycle management (ILM) is the process of using IT resources efficiently to manage information over time. It recognizes that the value of data to a company changes over time and can vary between different users or departments. By identifying the changing value of data, ILM enables organizations to better manage IT resources.

With the introduction of network-based storage and other technologies, storage environments can now deliver the proper balance of performance, data accessibility, cost, and data integrity for different classes of data according to their value.

Total Tec can help your business comply with regulations with an ILM solution that classifies data according to use and delivers the quality of service, determined by access speed and cost, that is required. We can help you develop and implement a plan for storing and managing virtually all business documents — including e-mail — that could become part of an audit trail of its business transactions.

As an HP Platinum partner, Total Tec offers a range of leading-edge ILM technologies that improve the speed of managing and retrieving information.

ILM Solutions:

TrustWorthy™ Appliance
RISS