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DD RL software provides file locking and secure data retention capabilities to meet corporate governance and compliance standards for data stored on PPDD systems. This whitepaper describes Data Domain RL Governance and Data Domain RL Compliance modes.
This paper illustrates how the RL feature can be used to:
It also provides a product overview and describes common RL use cases, including their interaction with other popular Data Domain features such as Replication and Cloud Tier. The recent enhancements for PPDD RL compliance now extend the same level of protection to Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) on-premises and Apex Protection Storage (DDVE on-cloud).