It just wasn’t about Sarbanes-Oxley. Nope, this vendor sponsored seminar also dealt with other requirements for regulatory compliance, like HIPAA in healthcare and ISO 18501/18509 in manufacturing. In fact, a lot of requirements for storing data are for internal compliance. Marc Farley said that legal demands to retain records in lawsuits will be a big driver for storage in the future.
Brian Babineau of the Enterprise Storage Group seemed very knowledgeable, but his presentation did not cover anything I did not know. He did claim that the permanence requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley did not necessarily mean WORM technology had to be used.
Rob Peglar of Xiotech made an interesting point by saying that meta data like indices should not be backed up to tape.
Bill Reed of Business Launch hosted the event, and he was very funny.