Abrevity Announces the First Information Value Management Software that Transcends the Limitations of ILM
FileData Manager goes beyond Information Lifecycle Management by adding granular data discovery, context classification and transparent data migration
February 13, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc., today came out of stealth mode to announce availability of its FileData Manager™ Information Value Management™ (IVM) solution, the first low-cost software to transcend the limitations of traditional Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions.
FileData Manager provides user-selectable metadata parsing, content and context data extraction and automated file tagging for proper classification. These features are not available in other solutions. This granular visibility allows for policy-based management of valuable information for compliance, security, legal discovery, business intelligence, disaster recovery and intelligent backup.
Addressing this problem with traditional ILM solutions required cobbling together numerous “point solutions” or installing expensive, enterprise content management systems that were disruptive and required users to adopt radically different procedures.
“Unlike the confusing ‘soup’ of current ILM solutions, FileData Manager is a low-cost, easy-to-use software solution that installs in minutes,” said Joel Harrison, Abrevity chief technology officer. “Its simple, yet powerful Information Discovery, Classification and Management technology allows easy implementation of sophisticated and effective Information Value Management. It’s compatible with CIFS and NFS and does not require server agents.”
A separate, lightweight utility scans Windows and UNIX network or desktop storage systems and extracts target information. Users can then quickly find and extract target words, values or phrases found inside file paths and common file types such as Microsoft Office, PDF, PST, txt, XML, HTML, etc. FileData Manager also creates file summaries and automatically adds context to extracted content, such as persons, companies, social security numbers, amounts, taxonomies, etc.
"IT professionals are looking for tools that provide increased ‘visibility’ into their growing data stockpiles," said Heidi Biggar, analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. "They are looking for ways to sort out what they have and then leverage this information for business purposes. Abrevity is one of a growing number of vendors taking steps to provide this type of view of data. What differentiates Abrevity from the pack is its use of a new data model (versus conventional relational database or enterprise search technologies) to enable fast search, discovery, and data analysis of the large data volumes being generated today."
“FileData Manager is really a power tool for ILM because it offers metadata extraction, search, classification (tagging) and policy-management for data as well as a powerful file discovery interface,” said Jim Petralli, director of IT services at Level III Services, Inc. “Additionally, one of its most practical features is the distributed SLICE database architecture for both records & schema. This distributed architecture allows FileData Manager to scale to incredible proportions, running billions of records without any performance degradation. In addition to making the product much easier to use, this feature greatly lowers the cost of deployment in remote locations.”
Today, Abrevity also announced BioData Manager, the first solution in the life sciences market to transcend the crippling limitations of traditional methods of finding, extracting, classifying and managing the data needed for compliance, litigation, bioinformatics, and ILM. It finds and extracts targeted data values or strings found inside files created by flow cytometers, confocal microscopes or other laboratory instruments for analysis and compliance reporting.
ABOUT Abrevity
Abrevity is Silicon Valley’s leading innovator of Information Value Management™ software technology. Abrevity has designed a new data model that offers orders of magnitude better scalability, flexibility, visibility and affordability than solutions debilitated by traditional search or relational database technologies. Selected as one of only thirty-two presenters for the prestigious Under the Radar annual event, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.