Trustworthy Storage and Management of Electronic Records - The Role of Optical Storage Technology

Increasingly, electronic records are defined in laws and regulations as being equal to traditional paper and micrographic records. The majority of these electronic fixed-content and reference records must be retained in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Optical disk storage, like all forms of digital storage has a very important role in establishing and maintaining the accuracy, reliability and trustworthiness of electronic records, without any known legal exceptions.

This White Paper examines the role of digital optical storage as it relates to establishing and maintaining the trustworthiness of electronic records used in mainstream commercial and public sector applications, which produce electronic records.