Dealing with data compliance issues as a storage administrator
is the subject of this podcast with analyst Jon Collins, service
director of Freeform Dynamics. In the podcast, Jon lists the
questions he is hearing most often from storage managers in the
UK pertaining to best practices for data compliance. Below, you
can read his answers to these frequently asked questions
regarding compliance or download a podcast of the Q&A.  Listen
to Compliance FAQ podcast  Table of contents:  What data should
I retain and for how long? What type of media should I use? Can
I adopt a tiered approach? How can I prove that my data has not
been tampered with? Do I need to make big investments in storage
to be compliant?  What data should I retain and for how long?
That's a good question because there are so many laws and
regulations affecting data. It'd be easy to say "It depends" but
there's a grain of truth to that answer because there are
multiple kinds of information retention requirements: by
vertical industry, with, for