Google Drive for Business boosts data retention features in crowded market

One of the key ways of getting businesses to adopt new technology is to ensure that it meets with all of users' discovery and compliance requirements, including data retention and deletion.

If a company already deletes some or all of its data after a certain period of time, a new service needs to comply with that rule.

Google is better addressing that market with its own cloud storage and collaboration product as a result of new changes announced Monday. Drive for Work now features deeper integration with Google's Vault data management and e-discovery service that allows for better retention and deletion of company data.

Once administrators set a data retention policy, files will be saved for a defined period of time inside Vault, even if end users delete them from their Drive. In addition, companies can set a policy to automatically delete files after they reach a certain age, and place a hold on some data so it's available if needed for a lawsuit.

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