Microsoft says its Office 365 cloud platform now conforms to European Union and HIPAA privacy regulations

ArcMail for Instant Messaging is designed to bring compliance and data discovery to IM platforms

Companies in Europe will be able to access private cloud services from local data centres by the end of 2012

Akamai's content delivery network now has features designed to help customers fend off DDoS attacks

An appliance that indexes EMC Data Domain backup-image content to be extracted for business purposes

Most businesses fail to see how PCI-DSS compliance brings overall data security to their organisation

Compliance standards now know that encryption is no good unless the keys are managed, says Jon Geater. Better start doing that!

Companies face increasingly stiff regulations for their IT. Peter Judge asks - if you virtualise your servers, will you fall foul of compliance rules?