Retail companies operate in highly dynamic environments that include rapid changes in business conditions, buying trends, government and industry regulations, new challenges from innovating competitors, as well as new opportunities. Key to success is efficiently managing the ever increasing amounts of data generated from disparate sources such as customer and supplier transactions, product and inventory data, and video surveillance records. Meeting compliance regulations, putting in place effective Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans, and providing for legal discovery processes all place additional demands on how stored data is managed.

Reduce Administrative Overhead

KOM Networks has a long-standing and extensive presence in the retail sector helping organizations archive and manage their digital assets and understands the specific issues they face. KOMpliance reduces the administrative costs and headaches associated with long-term data storage by adapting to changes 'on-the-fly' with no application downtime, optimizing storage resources while ensuring continued access to data for authorized users and applications.

The KOMpliance features set makes it a cost-effective solution for regulatory compliant, long-term data storage needs.

• AES-256 block cipher encryption exceeds industry standards (AES-128) for protection and privacy of stored data.
• SHA-256 digital signature provides record authentication.
• Rules-based data retention and protection policies automate compliance with PCI 2.0 DSS Requirement 3.1.1.
• High-performance creation rates (up to 100 million files/day) keep up with the heaviest workloads.
• Adaptive Information Lifecycle Management reduces administrative overhead.
• Simple installation and configuration - KOMpliance can be up and running in under 30 minutes.
• Open network standards and protocols, and no proprietary connectors, keep your costs low and guarantee future flexibility.
• Multiple Storage Gateway configurations (iSCSI-SAN, SCSI-SAN, FC-SAN) let you choose the most cost-effective way to leverage existing storage capacity.
• Storage Server configurations include RAID 5 storage arrays and are easily expanded to meet future business growth needs.
• Storage Gateways and Storage Servers both come in models designed to address the different needs of SMEs and Enterprises.
• Windows Server OS means compatibility with a large ecosystem of Windows applications and lets you leverage your in-house IT expertise.