Abrevity Announces the First Information Classification And Management Software to Break the $500 per Terabyte Barrier
FileData Classifier empowers Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) with file search, tagging and management features found only in solutions starting at more than $10,000/TB.
April 03, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc., today announced availability of its FileData Classifier™ Information Value Management™ (IVM) solution, the first affordable software to transcend the limitations of traditional Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions.
At $1497 for the first three terabytes and $995 per terabyte thereafter, FileData Classifier is the only solution in the Information Classification and Management (ICM) space suitable for Small to Medium Businesses (SMB) or Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) and is comparable in price to EMC’s Insignia VisualSRM™ for SMBs. Combining ease of integration with affordable pricing also makes FileData Classifier the first practical ICM solution for storage OEMs.
Competitive solutions that combine file discovery (search), data classification (tagging) and policy-based management with transparent data migration typically start at more than $10,000 per terabyte, and most are coupled to high-end appliances. Some of these solutions also require the purchase of a separate database license.
“Although we’re a small shop with less than three terabytes of data,” said Abrevity customer Jim Petralli, director of IT at Level III Services, Inc., “we have millions of files that need classification and management for ILM, compliance, legal and security reasons. FileData Classifier is the only solution that solves the problem for less than five hundred dollars a terabyte. Any other solution with these features would cost us ten thousand dollars a terabyte.”
Leveraging Abrevity’s SLICEbase metadata database engine, FileData Classifier is the only solution not built on or requiring the use of a relational database. This provides for a rich feature set that includes user-selectable metadata parsing, Boolean file query (search) and Abrevity’s exclusive Drag2Tag™ file tagging for data classification. The later feature allows users to query based on granular file attributes, such as specific file or directory words combined with file types, dates, creators, etc., and then simply drag selected files into one or more category “tags” such as Critical, Compliant, Legal, Tier One, etc. New categories and tags can be created within seconds. An upgrade option “sees inside” common file types such as Microsoft Office® and Adobe PDF® files, and extracts parsed file content such as social security numbers, etc.
“FileData Classifier’s granular visibility creates an attainable opportunity for smaller organizations to put true, policy-based data management in place,” said Laura DuBois, Research Director for IDC Storage Software. “FileData Classifier allows these firms for the first time to affordably implement compliance archiving, information security, legal discovery, intelligent backup and ILM.”
“IT professionals at SMBs, enterprise divisions or satellite offices have been waiting for a product like this for some time,” says Tom Mumford, CEO of TriAxis Storage Solutions, Inc., an Abrevity reseller. “At less than five hundred dollars per terabyte, our customers are excited about FileData Classifer’s ability to solve some very large pain points.”
FileData Classifier software runs on standard Windows PCs or severs and supports Windows (CIFS) network or desktop storage systems. The software manages up three terabytes of data per single dataset. Users can also upgrade to Abrevity’s FileData Manager™ software which offers enterprise class features such as UNIX (NFS) scanning, more than three terabytes of federated data management and file content extraction for laboratory instrument files, 200+ common file types or email.
ABOUT Abrevity
Abrevity is Silicon Valley’s leading innovator of Information Value ManagementTM (IVM) software technology. Abrevity has designed a new data model that offers orders of magnitude better scalability, flexibility, visibility and affordability versus solutions debilitated by traditional text search or relational database technologies. Provided as standalone applications or easily integrated by OEMs, Abrevity’s software solutions start at below $500 per terabyte, making them the only Information Classification and Management (ICM) solutions suitable for Small to Medium Business (SMB) through Fortune 500 enterprises.