Customers, channel partners, value-added resellers, and system-support engineers

• Understand basic computing infrastructure and storage concepts
• Describe information life-cycle management at a high level

• Describe compliance as it relates to information life-cycle management
• Describe ILM-related regulations and understand their backgrounds, impacts and related technologies, and describe compliance-related tool sets and capabilities

Module 1 - Compliance Definition, Principles, and Sun POV

• Definition of compliance
• Principles of compliance
• Sun POV
• Current compliance environment

Module 2 - Compliance Landscape

• Recent compliance history
• Compliance drivers
• Information compliance types and categories
• Industry impacts

Module 3 - Regulatory Background

• Regulatory drivers
• Regulatory bodies
• Nature of data regulated
• What "policy" means in relation to storage

Module 4 - Regulatory Compliance

• Regulatory compliance
• Understanding how differing regulations affect compliance
• Understanding the regulations

Module 5 - Compliance in the Context of Other Challenges

• Business-related challenges
• Organizational challenges
• IT department challenges
• Industry-specific challenges
• Technology-specific challenge

Module 6 - Compliance-Record Life Cycle

• Retention periods
• Corporate organizational responsibility
• Opportunities for storage optimization
• Maximizing value to business

Module 7 - Compliance-Related Tool Sets and Capabilities

• Message retention and srchiving
• Records management
• E-discovery
• Taxonomy of compliant records
• Internal controls records retention
• Compliance beyond regulations
• Assessment methodologies

Module A - Regulatory: Sarbanes-Oxley Overview

• Affected industries and business functions
• Regulations
• Technologies landscape

Module B - Regulatory: SEC

• Overview
• Affected industries and business functions
• Regulations
• Technologies landscape

Module C - Regulatory: 21 CFR (Part 11) / FDA

• Overview
• Affected industries and business functions
• Regulations
• Technologies landscape

Module D - Regulatory: HIPAA

• Overview
• Affected industries and business functions
• Regulations
• Technologies landscape

Module E - Regulatory: DoD

• Overview
• Affected industries and business functions
• Regulations
• Technologies landscape

Module F - Regulatory: OSHA Overview

• Affected industries and business functions
• Regulations
• Technologies landscape

Module G - Regulatory: NASD

• Overview
• Affected industries and business functions
• Rules

Module H - Regulatory: Other Regulations

• Basel II
• EU Data Protection Directive
• EU 8th Directive on Company Law
• ISPE, PIC/S
• FACTA
• PIPEDA
• Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare
• FIMSA