Pharmaceutical companies depend heavily on their data. For them, time is money and the race is won by the companies that make the most efficient use of data to shorten their time to market.
While there are a number of reasons why long-term retention of information is vitally important for pharmaceutical companies, the most common reasons are viewed as costs to the business:
- Meeting Regulatory Requirements – Food And Drug Administration (FDA 21CFR Part 11), Good Practice Quality Guidelines and Regulations (GxP), Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Meeting Legal Requirements – Prevention of or defense against litigation
- Protecting Intellectual Property – Providing evidence that research has been performed for US Patenting.
Additional, tangible benefits for the long-term retention of information include:
- Allowing historic information to be reused to improve efficiency and avoid duplicate effort
- Better analysis of historic information using new technology or techniques
- Improve decision making with secure access to high quality information
- Use of archived data to determine a new approach to disease research.
All of these reasons add up to extended long-term retention policies for vast amounts of pharmaceutical data, the “forever archive”.
KOMpliance is a turnkey archive storage solution that can be deployed immediately as an iSCSI / FC SAN Gateway to enhance your existing storage environment or as a stand-alone secure Storage Server. Addressed as a NAS filer “on steroids”, it is simple to use and easy to deploy - letting you rapidly leverage your existing business process, workflow, infrastructure, administrative knowledge and talent.
- Unmatched protection and accessibility of critical data – quality data and high availability
- Flexibility and Scalabilty – highly scalable storage capacities from 1 TB to 500 Petabytes coupled with reliable retrieval speeds and high performance out-of-the-box
- Easy search and retrieval - index-based searches for rapid retrieval. Supports legal holds on files preventing deletion in the event of litigation
- Data Authenticity and immutability – uses patented e-WORM (HDD WORM) technology
- Automated policy-based retention and encryption – meets the strictest regulatory and longest term retention requirements, including “never expire.”
When it comes to getting the most from your information, your infrastructure, your critical research applications, your existing process and people, KOMpliance delivers the most cost-effective solution for your extended retention and strict compliance needs.
