New Group To Help Businesses Sort Out Compliance Issues

For solution providers whose customers are struggling to get their IT infrastructures to meet the abundance of financial, medical and other government rules and industry regulations, help may be on the way.

Eight storage, content management and records management vendors recently formed the Compliance and Management of Electronic Information Working Group (CMEI) to provide regulation information to businesses and help ensure that technology issues are considered in future laws.

The founders are Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, Network Appliance, Open Text, Oracle, Plasmon, Sun Microsystems and Veritas Software. CMEI is part of the Internet Law & Policy Forum.

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