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Addressing Data Compliance and Legacy Applications in the Financial Services Industry Pressures from Dodd-Frank in the United States and MIFID II in Europe are causing financial services organizations to revisit their information management strategies in order to mitigate risks. Two areas that pose challenges are regulatory data compliance and effectively

Flatirons Solutions® today announced that it has been awarded the Marketing Excellence Award for Customer Satisfaction by the Enterprise Content Division (ECD) of EMC Corporation. The ECD Marketing Excellence Award recognizes innovation and achievement in reaching a targeted vertical or finding broader audiences for an EMC Certified solution and associated

Data management is serious business. The price of data compliance—when not strictly adhered to—can be extraordinarily high. Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations can result in $50,000 fines. Fines for violating credit card data retention and disposal policies can cost $100,000 per month. And, as the Enron crisis

On September 9, 2015, I was invited to present on an interactive roundtable conference call with EMC. The focus of the call was business challenges around application decommissioning and data archiving and how Flatirons is helping clients use EMC’s InfoArchive platform to address them. This is a summary of highlights from

For the second year in a row, EMC has been ranked as a “Visionary” on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement. This is a strong position, considering EMC’s InfoArchive was introduced less than two years ago. In fact, InfoArchive was named a “Trend-Setting Product of 2014”

Regulation as the Root of Improved Customer Service Since the 1990s, the Energy industry has been riding a complex wave of both regulation and deregulation. This complexity–along with constant change and unpredictability in the regulatory environment itself—continues to pose a great challenge for energy companies. On the regulatory side, the

In his blog “Think ‘Data Management,’ Not Just ‘Data Protection,’” Data Protection Analyst Jason Buffington provides sound advice to IT organizations whose primary storage is growing around 40% annually but whose IT budgets aren’t. That advice is to archive data. Buffington defines archiving this way: “Archiving is the intentional retention

As part of our lo at Application Decommissioning in Financial Services, we’re now going to turn our attention to the highly regulated world of credit card processing. Keeping Up with Data Retention and Compliance Policies Along with Dodd-Frank and other financial regulations, credit card processors are subject to strict PCI