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Dell PowerScale SmartLock software is a reliable and secure data protection and retention capability that protects critical data from unauthorized alteration. Protecting financial data or business records from accidental deletion or alteration while meeting regulatory and governance requirements are key business imperatives for most organizations today. This document describes how SmartLock helps organizations meet these requirements with a software-based approach to write once, read many (WORM) data protection.