Increases in global regulatory compliance and business governance requirements have prompted Sun and AXS-One to deliver the Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution. This customer-ready system integrates Sun's storage and compliance products along with the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) and AXS-One software for a compliance solution designed for electronic records.

Addressing compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and others, this solution offers a single platform that manages all corporate electronic records, including e-mail and instant messages, and mitigates the risks associated with new implementations.

This solution integrates existing Sun content and compliance offerings with the AXS-One Compliance Platform, delivering a common repository for all compliance information, expedient access to information assets, broad scalability and enhanced security. The Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution is available now worldwide.

"In the past few months, complying with government regulations has become a top priority for organizations around the world," said Ed Valdez, vice president of Integrated Solutions at Sun. "Our customers have a critical need to get more out of their information assets and intellectual property while ensuring compliance with the regulations that affect them. This solution delivers authentication of and access to corporate information while ensuring maximum security anywhere, any time - and this translates into a real-time business advantage for our customers."

According to a December 2004 AMR Research alert by analyst John Hagerty, public companies are projected to spend USD$6 billion in 2005 to become Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.

A study published in the same month by IT market research and advisory firm IDC stated that email archiving applications revenue is expected to top USD$180 million worldwide in 2004, up from just USD$33 million two years ago, and to continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 50 percent through 2008.

With the incorporation of the AXS-One's Compliance Platform, Sun currently is the only company that is offering a complete and customizable compliance solution. It includes the Solaris 10 OS, the Sun StorEdgeTM SAM-FS, a single Web-based search screen for all records, a heterogeneous platform and interoperability with all classes of data/records including email, messaging, documents, databases, ERP and images.

Recent testing of the Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution demonstrated that it successfully scales to meet the requirements of large global corporations.

Offering different storage infrastructure options in order to address each customers' unique compliance requirements, this solution offers the following choices: the Sun StorEdgeTM Compliance Archiving System for non-erasable, non-rewritable "WORM" disk capabilities, extendible per file retention periods and advanced security; and the Sun Content Infrastructure System for automated tiered archiving and other required infrastructure components.

Sun and AXS-One are continuing their collaborative research and expect to be replacing Sun's current e-mail archiving solution, known as Infinite Mailbox. Plans are to replace this mailbox with a single, scalable framework that can archive and manage all electronic records, including e-mail, while addressing storage, compliance and content management challenges.

"AXS-One is delighted that Sun has chosen to extend our business and technology relationship," said Jerry Vendome, executive vice president of business development at AXS-One. "We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with a global leader in technology. Our teams have closely collaborated to optimize our technology for the Sun Solaris platform, and the testing results demonstrate the proven scalability of Sun systems and the solution." [...read more...]

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