Overland-Tandberg rdxLOCK WORM Software Certifiied by KPMG

Overland-Tandberg, a brand of Sphere 3D Corp., announces that the WORM feature of their rdxLOCK software has been certified by KMPG AG, a provider of audit, tax, and advisory services in Germany.

 rdxLOCK’s WORM feature meets the needs of current and upcoming compliance rules such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By providing offline cartridges for archiving, RDX solutions continue to play a key role in security and DR.

Regulated industries such as financial, healthcare, technology and others, must satisfy stringent data requirements to maintain compliance within their respective sectors. These companies are required to archive their business data for extended periods of time. Case studies for financial data can be required up to 10 years; healthcare data can be 7 years and many additional government institutions are required to keep their data even longer to satisfy an audit event, malpractice law suit, or other situations where historical data is critically important.

During the storage lifecycle period, companies must have a copy of the data, and must ensure the stored data is maintained in its original form to satisfy business content authentication. The WORM functionality has been established to meet these regulatory requirements, as it prevents content manipulation of existing data in any form whatsoever.

“SMBs are consistently looking for an affordable solution for compliance archiving,” said Hugo Bergmann, product line director, RDX business. “Since our inception, RDX technology has been the standard for backup, data exchange and archiving with off-site storage. By adding the certification of the WORM functionality to our rdxLOCK software, SMBs can receive high performance reliability and trust in an easy to use and integrated storage device which exceeds their compliance requirements while mitigating budget constraints and our client feedback has been met with overwhelming excitement about the accretive value from this new solution“

RDX Benefits: 

• Delivers long-term storage and archive solutions to SMBs with growing storage needs. It offers RDX QuikStor single drive removable disk systems with USB 3.0 and SATA III interfaces and flexible RDX QuikStation removable disk appliance, which connect trough iSCSI to existing networks.
• The ruggedized RDX HDD and SSD cartridges are shockproof, can sustain a one-meter drop onto a concrete floor, are protected against electrostatic discharge events and support an archival lifetime of more than ten years.
• WORM refers to a technology that prevents data from being deleted, changed or overwritten. Files can be added and accessed as usual. WORM media are integrated in digital archiving applications and are primarily used to meet regulatory and compliance requirements, where data must not be deleted, overwritten or changed.
• RDX WORM is available with capacities of 1TB, 2TB or 4TB as media/software license kits and as software license only configurations. The software offers a 60-day trial with full functionality.

The RDX WORM media and licenses and license-only offerings are available from Overland-Tandberg authorized resellers and channel partners for MSRP starting from €545 or $599 for RDX WORM media and €356 or $399 for rdxLOCK WORM license-only.