Storage as a Service meets EU GDPR requirements

Each company is facing two separate challenges: data needs to be retrievable on short notice, and there must be a central data repository for long-term storage where data can be archived securely for the respective statutory retention period. It is therefore crucial to know immediately where any piece of information is stored.

What’s more, companies are required to restore the availability of personal data and access to the information quickly in the event of a physical or technical incident (Art. 32 (1b) GDPR). Each organisation is therefore obliged to create backups and to archive data, and storage systems need to be up and running at all times.

Updated technical solutions must be implemented to protect data that is subject to storage requirements from unintentional processing, alteration, destruction, theft or loss.

IONOS Object Storage is a real alternative to magnetic tapes as a long-term storage medium. While magnetic tapes are still cheaper than hard drive storage and are certainly able to store data continuously and reliably for many years, there are unfortunately many different types of mutually incompatible magnetic tapes. And the data stored on these tapes may even become unreadable if the drives that are used to read them are no longer available. Archiving software providers cause difficulties as well: they insist on proprietary writing formats, which means that it is impossible to ensure that magnetic tapes will remain readable in the future.