Recent government regulations worldwide such as the EU Data Retention Directive set mandatory requirements for ISPs and telecoms for the collection, retention and retrieval of communication records.

Leading telecommunications providers around the world use the SenSage CDR/IPDR Warehouse to capture, retain and analyze data communication records to meet regulatory requirements. SenSage's pre-built solutions uniquely deliver actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data.

Regulations require that all telephony, Internet access and messaging transaction details, not contents, are stored and require data retention between 6 months and two years. This data must be retained in a secure accessible repository allowing organizations to respond to information requests from authorities, "without undue delay" and upon request – this is usually measured in minutes and hours.

Communication record retention requirements place significant storage, security and analysis obligations on communication services providers and impose technical and economic challenges. While many service providers are already collecting communication data, current systems may not meet new regulatory requirements.

The SenSage CDR/IPDR solution for meeting data retention regulatory requirements provides the following features and benefits:

• Data collection from any infrastructure or AMA source included in the solution and simple to deploy and customize
• Stores all data in highly compressed and secure environment to reduce storage costs and meet privacy requirements
• An intuitive wizard-based query interface requiring little technical skills to use
• Provides exceptional proven performance for querying billions of communications records
• Capital expenditure, deployment and ongoing operating expenses that are a fraction of traditional data warehouse database solutions
• A proven network of partners in the telecommunications industry including EMC