Abrevity Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm
Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing
July 17, 2007
Cupertino, CA—Abrevity, the leader in Information Classification & Management (ICM) software solutions, today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the "Cool Vendors in Secure Business Enablement, 2007," report compiled by leading analysts that include Ray Wagner, Lawrence Orans, John Girard, Roberta J. Witty, Ant Allan, Avivah Litan, and Barry Runyon at Gartner, Inc.
Gartner reports that “regulatory compliance requirements are presenting serious challenges to enterprise security administration personnel who are trying to enforce privileges and duties within heterogeneous IT infrastructures.” This heterogeneous nature of the typical IT infrastructure coupled with a lack of enterprise standards for authentication and authorization makes it difficult to discover and protect regulated data.
"There are actually two sides to solving the data classification problem for today’s enterprises," says Eric Madison, Abrevity’s vice president of product strategy. "First is the ability to ‘look inside’ the terabytes of data resident throughout an enterprise and then accurately classify that data. The second is providing a truly scalable solution capable of handling the massive amounts of data scattered throughout the distributed enterprise. Only Abrevity’s solutions can do both."
Abrevity’s products deliver the ability to discover, classify, automate and report, thus enabling comprehensive data classification policy management and enforcement. Classifications can be based on any combination of file system metadata, ownership, directory structure or file content and policies can be adapted for solving information compliance or FRCP legal discovery issues across the distributed enterprise. All these capabilities are easy to deploy and manage in single or multi-site configurations allowing centralized management but local enforcement.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About Abrevity
Abrevity’s Information Classification & Management (ICM) software solutions enable automated classification of data based on business value. Abrevity’s best-in-class software solves the scalability, flexibility and performance requirements needed to enable tiered storage, information security, legal discovery and compliance archiving. Abrevity’s technology is the first to offer a storage-centric distributed architecture that scales across the enterprise and is optimized for file system and storage compatibility. With the Abrevity FileData™ software suite, classification and management policies can now be globally monitored, measured and enforced from a central point of control. Abrevity’s award-winning enterprise applications are available from industry-leading resellers and OEMs.