winkydo

i think this has more to do with the idea that 3 months is less liability than 3 years of data.

wikipedia defines 'data retention' as "A data retention policy weighs legal and privacy concerns against economics and need to know concerns to determine both the retention time, archival rules, data formats, and the permissible means of storage, access, and encryption."

you cannot just throw a fry's hard drive at a corporate email system and think you have reliable data storage. but at the same time, i'm sure EMC had some very good end of 2nd quarter deals they could have extended dallas for storage space. i think the problem here is that the real reason for the policy is being hidden behind political tape.