Abrevity Wins Storage Management 2006 Product of the Year Award
Abrevity’s FileData Classifier Software Secures Gold in Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com 2006 “Product of the Year” Awards
February 06, 2007
Cupertino, CA—Abrevity, the leading innovator of Information Value Management™ software technology, announced that its FileData Classifier v2.7 Solution was selected out of dozens of entries as the Gold storage management 2006 Product of the Year by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. FileData Classifier was selected by the editors of Storage and SeachStorage.com along with a team of judges composed of industry experts, analysts, consultants, corporate CIOs and IT professionals.
One judge commented, “It’s not whether you can solve a problem with a solution. It’s whether you can solve it with a solution that’s simple, elegant and affordable. FileData Classifier stands out in this category and is a clear winner for this reason.”
The Storage Management Software category is one of the highest growth segments and is propelled by requirements for information lifecycle management (ILM), information lifecycle security (ILS), compliance archiving, legal discovery, data protection and data mining. According to Abrevity, all other Information Classification and Management (ICM) solutions in this space are built upon relational database and/or enterprise search technologies which limit capability. “[Abrevity’s] Classification is built around an incredibly fast, innovative database … the performance is outstanding.” remarked another judge.
Abrevity’s products utilize “SLICEbase technology,” which consists of a new metadata database and data modeling technology that allows for orders of magnitude better scalability to billions of records, flexibility for on-the-fly schema changes, file versioning and genealogy tracking for easy audit trail analysis and a distributed “parallel” architecture for multi-threaded scanning & indexing. All these capabilities allow FileData Classifier to be easily deployed and managed in single or multi-site configurations
“This award is not only a validation of the effectiveness of FileData Classifier in providing best-in-class functionality,” says Richard Preston, Abrevity’s CEO, “but it is also a validation of the need for content-aware data classification and management solutions for enterprises struggling to manage billions of files and emails for security, compliance, legal and other business requirements.”
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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 the 2006 Gold Product of the Year by Storage Magazine and one of six top storage and ten top data management companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity delivers best-in-class Information Classification and Management (ICM) solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs. Abrevity provides the only ICM solution directly offered by Forsythe Technologies and Tech Data Corporation.