Challenged by compliance

摘要

It's compliance time, and that means enterprise IT executives should know where and on what type of media corporate data is stored, and how long it needs to be retained. But by all indications, most everyone still is struggling with how to get in line with the new regulations governing business practices. "In general, IT and business professionals across a variety of industries still don't even know how to begin discussing compliance as a business issue," says Pete Gerr, a research analyst with Enterprise Storage Group. "Is it the CIO's problem? Is it the [vice president] of IT's problem? Is it a storage problem? Compliance touches all of these groups and more, so it requires knocking down the communications barriers that normally exist between IT and the rest of the business."