Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) today announced the general availability of the Sun StorEdge(TM) 5310 Compliance Archiving System.

The system, a combination of the Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliance and Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving Software offers an affordable and price competitive alternative for customers' requirements for growing and complex records retention. Integrated with Sun's industry leading(1) Identity Management solutions, to administer and report on access controls, and major ISV applications.

The Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving System provides a fully integrated solution to help facilitate compliance with the myriad of both government and business roles regulations -- including HIPAA for healthcare, SEC Rule 17a-4 and Basel 2 for financial services, 21 CFR 11 for life sciences, as well the Sarbanes Oxley Act and its global equivalents.

Whilst the overturning of the Arthur Andersen verdict may subdue the frenzy about document retention, it is still a massive martke.

"We see regulatory compliance and data security as key drivers for NAS growth," said Pushan Rinnen, principal analyst at Gartner. "Although there are many NAS products in the market today, enterprises have limited file archiving options that are powerful and cost-effective enough for HIPAA and Sarbanes- Oxley."

To date, over 50 data management and content applications -- including imaging, messaging, technical computing, oil and gas exploration, and data protection -- have been qualified to securely and reliably store data on the system. In addition, a variety of the industry's best Enterprise Content Management application providers, including AXS-One, iLumin, Mobius Management Systems and Vignette, have qualified their applications with the system's compliance features to enforce retention and leverage the system's write-once, read-many (WORM) capability.

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