EMC binds compliance software.

EMC Corp. is levaraging its Legato and Documentum divisions to build tightly knit hardware, software and services packages to help guide customers through a minefield of growing data retention and e-mail archiving compliance concerns. The EMC Proven precon figured and tested bundles will relieve enterprise customers of the burden of figuring out where in the various tiers of their storage architectures to keep data so that it complies with government regulations, officials said. At its EMC Forum customer event in New York this week, EMC, of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, will introduce three such packages. Two EMC Proven CARS, content archiving and retrieval solutions bundles manage document archiving. The EMC proven solutions for e-mail archiving package manages electronic messages. Also at the event, EMC will unveil CentraStar Version 2.3 software for its Centera Compliance Edition disk array. The upgrade provides new capabilities for automating compliance with data retention and deletion policies.