Abrevity Announces Version 3.0 of FileData Classifier and FileData Manager, the First Scalable Data Classification Solution for Enterprises
Version 3.0 is the first solution to provide central management for today’s geographically-dispersed enterprise storage environments.
September 26, 2007
Cupertino, CA—Abrevity announced today version 3.0 of FileData Classifier™ (FDC) and FileData Manager™ (FDM), the eagerly awaited new release of their Information Classification and Management (ICM) Software. Version 3.0 fully addresses the complexities required to centrally control, but locally manage distributed enterprise file data. This major upgrade is the first ICM solution available with the ability to manage hundreds of terabytes of storage across multiple geographically distributed locations.
With a unique combination of new content-aware discovery features, a comprehensive business value-based classification & tagging mechanism, a completely new file movement and policy engine, and enhanced reporting and trending capabilities, this release raises the bar in the data classification market.
“Enterprise customers require an ICM solution that can scale to manage hundreds of terabytes, even petabytes of data,” said Eric Madison, Abrevity’s VP of Product Strategy. “Their data is not always in one location; it’s distributed across multiple data centers, remote facilities and branch office locations. Abrevity is the first to build and deploy an ICM solution that can meet those requirements. All other products available today are single location point solutions that don’t scale beyond 20 terabytes.”
With the rate of data growth constantly increasing, periodic changes in compliance regulations and the recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) for legal discovery, IT managers have much more complex responsibilities. They are now required to not only manage the IT infrastructure but are also burdened with finding, protecting and classifying the data residing in their geographically dispersed infrastructure. This is an impossible task without a centralized solution.
“If you can’t see or find data, you just can’t manage it,” said Mike Karp, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates. “Today enterprises are required to manage data located in diverse remote locations just as though it were contained on a single disk drive at one central location. Only products like Abrevity can provide both the visibility and accuracy across multiple locations to accomplish acceptable data management scalability and performance.”
In addition to accurately identifying data and enforcing the policies pertaining to compliance and legal requirements, IT must develop methodologies for the policies that will reduce security risks and optimize storage usage. This requires the ability to automatically migrate files to secure locations, archive them for long term retention, and even lock access when necessary.
“Today’s enterprises are faced with a growing need to find regulatory audit and legal discovery data quickly and accurately. Searching and finding potential responsive evidence through terabytes of geographically-dispersed data under the new eDiscovery Rules timeline can be a daunting task,” said Vivian Tero, senior research analyst at IDC. “There is a need for solutions that automate this process while scaling up effectively to match the data volume growth and providing acceptable performance results. Abrevity’s 3.0 release is intended to address this need.”
About FileData Classifier
FileData Classifier provides rich file data discovery features over any of the common storage networking protocols including CIFS or NFS. FDC includes an easy to use query and policy creation interface, automated data classification with tagging, comprehensive content analysis and extraction capabilities, a simple to use reporting engine and an enterprise class file movement and policy engine that can be used for file movement, tiered storage, data migration or file archival.
Discover
The first step in the information classification and management process is to discover all the data in the environment. This allows IT managers to “discover what they have” and create a rich metadata repository that can be queried. The discovery process continues by adding content visibility based on key words, phrases or patterns contained within files. Detailed Boolean queries are easily created to discover files that are a match. The subsequent results are then ready to be classified, moved, secured or even deleted.
Classify
Once you have found the files that match through the discovery process, the next step is to label or “tag” the files that maybe dispersed across multiple locations in the enterprise. The tag becomes an extended attribute associated with the files and a policy or multiple policies can be assigned to the tag. Classification allows enterprises to associate a business value to their data, and create policies pertaining to that value.
Automate
The process of automating Discovery, Classification, and Reporting represents the encapsulation of a data management policy and is then invoked on the tagged files. Automation of policy can be accomplished through scheduling an event to run at a specific time or interval.
Report
Robust text or visual based reports can be created based a tag, a policy or any combination of file attributes. For example, a report can be created for all files containing social security numbers created within the last month and listing who has access rights to view those files. Reporting is powered by Abrevity’s patent-pending data modeling technology and optimizes report generation performance, even when reporting on large amounts of data. Reports can be output to any common format including text, csv, jpg, html or xml.
About FileData Manager
FileData Manager enables federated control and enforcement of the classification and data management policies. Global, local or even departmental policies can be set and enforced within FDM by commanding distributed FDC nodes to Discover, Classify, Automate and Report on locally managed data but automatically aggregates the results back to the FDM for a centralized view.
FDM empowers the IT manager with a single control point for all data policies across the entire enterprise without having to individually access remote FDC nodes. Enabled by Abrevity’s unique distributed application framework, FDM coupled with FDC provide a complete data classification solution for any distributed enterprise.
About Abrevity
Abrevity is the leading innovator of data classification software technology. Abrevity built new data modeling technology and an Entity Database (EDB™) that offers orders of magnitude better scalability, flexibility, visibility and affordability than solutions debilitated by traditional search or relational database technologies. Abrevity’s best-in-class applications solve real business problems like storage optimization, information discovery, data security, legal discovery and compliance archiving. Abrevity’s award-winning enterprise applications are available from industry-leading resellers and OEMs.