Environments where secure data retention is required include:
- Archiving environments enforced for secure data according to data retention policies, in line with corporate governance standards.
- Archiving environments, specifically industries including financial services, legal, healthcare, and pharmaceutical where data must be retained for set periods of time in accordance with strict retention requirements set forth by regulatory compliance standards (SEC 17a-4f)
- Backup environments that must retain backup data for a specified duration according to defined security policies
- Backup environments that must store and securely retain archive data using optimal data placement to improve cost and storage efficiency across backup workloads
- Environments where end-to-end backup protection applications manage the data retention policies. These applications include PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), NetWorker, and Avamar (Compliance mode is supported from version 19.8, and Governance mode is supported from version 19.10).
- Organizations that want to optimize their secondary data consumption by leveraging Cloud Tier capabilities for their long-term retention data needs.