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.
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.
Abrevity Named One of KMWorld’s “100 Companies That Matter”
This marks the second year in a row that Abrevity has been included on the list
February 22, 2008
Cupertino, CA—Abrevity today announced that for the second year in a row, it has been named as one of KMWorld’s 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management. For the last eight years this prestigious list has been compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, their customers and colleagues.
“We have long held that the true essence of knowledge management is an attitude, a single-minded commitment to improvement. And companies on our list simply must emphasize an abiding determination to serve their most important constituency: their customers. They must also show agile innovation combined with a full understanding of the forces that affect, and will affect, their customers.”
“Each year enterprises are faced with increasing demands for managing their digital assets and understanding the business value of those assets,” said Eric Madison, Abrevity vice president of marketing. “At the same time the amount of data they must manage is growing at an alarming rate. Only very sophisticated solutions, with the ability to scale, enable enterprises to be successful manage that growth. Inclusion in KMWorld’s list is indicative of Abrevity’s unique capabilities the knowledge management marketplace.”
About Abrevity
Abrevity’s Information Classification & Management (ICM) software solutions enable automated classification of data based on the business value. Abrevity’s best-in-class software solves the scalability, flexibility and performance requirements needed for information security, legal discovery and compliance archiving. Abrevity’s EDB technology is the first to offer a storage-centric distributed architecture that scales across petabytes of data and hundreds of locations and is optimized for file system and storage compatibility. With Abrevity FileData™ software suite, classification and management policies can now be globally enforced from a central point of control. Abrevity’s award-winning enterprise applications are available from industry-leading resellers and OEMs.
About KMWorld
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market, KMWorld informs more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes—and subsequent success stories—that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.
Intransa and Abrevity to Offer Fully Scalable, IP Data Classification Solutions
OEM Partnership to be Offered Through Intransa StorAlliance Program
April 03, 2007
SAN JOSE, CA—Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric IP storage solutions and Abrevity, the technology leader in data classification and management software, today announced an OEM partnership to develop cost-effective data classification solutions that can be easily scaled to meet the growing demands of regulatory compliance requirements for the enterprise.
Achieving accurate data classification is becoming increasingly critical for all businesses in today’s regulatory-intensive environment, but enterprises cannot afford to take the time to piece together solutions on their own. Well thought out, bundled solutions empower them to quickly implement effective data classification and policy management to meet regulatory compliance requirements. The combination of Abrevity’s fast search, discovery and data analysis combined with Intransa’s StorStac IP product will enable customers to get information quicker via a scalable IP SAN.
“As market leaders, Abrevity and Intransa are well positioned to provide the effective solutions required by all companies impacted by regulatory compliance and legal discovery requirements,” stated Jeff Whitney, vice president of marketing of Intransa. “The fully integrated bundle for data classification and management solutions planned by the two companies will be easy to deploy, yet will provide the granularity required by even the most demanding compliance requirements.”
Abrevity’s vice president of business development, William Reed agreed, “SOX, HIPPA, FRCP legal discovery and a plethora of other regulations are driving public companies to implement data classification solutions now—making this one of the highest-growth segments in the market. However, just as critical as the need for easy deployment, is the need for scalability. Our OEM partnership with Intransa will produce solutions that will be both easy to deploy and fully scalable.”
Abrevity’s sophisticated information classification and management (ICM) technology was selected as the Gold storage management 2006 Product of the Year by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. 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 are easy to deploy and manage in single or multi-site configurations.
Intransa has been shipping IP storage solutions since 2003 to customers around the world, and recently launched its latest generation systems, offering higher speed 2Gbit/second interfaces. A 10Gbit/second IP version, for ultra high performance requirements that exceed those previously addressed only by more costly and complex Fibre Channel systems, is in beta test with several customers.
“We’re pleased to have Abrevity as part of the StorAlliance program,” said Intransa’s Whitney. “Beginning April, 2007, customers will get the best of the data management and IP SAN technology in a single, cohesive solution.”
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 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.
About Intransa
Since 2001, San Jose, California-based Intransa has been the leading innovator of IP-centric storage solutions, delivering independently scalable performance and capacity with high availability, outstanding price/performance, and proven ease of use. For more information about Intransa, our industry-leading scalable IP solutions, and our StorPartner and StorAlliance programs, please visit www.intransa.com.
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.
Abrevity Announces Partnership with Forsythe Solutions Group
Forsythe to Provide Abrevity Solutions for Information Classification and Management
February 13, 2007
Cupertino, CA—Abrevity announced today the signing of a partnership agreement with Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc, a national IT infrastructure integrator with expected 2006 annual revenue of more than $600 million. Forsythe is adding Abrevity’s Information Classification and Management (ICM) software solutions to the portfolio of best-of-breed technology products it provides to its customers. Forsythe will also use Abrevity’s FileData Classifier software in its consulting engagements that focus on assessing clients’ information management and storage needs.
“Abrevity is excited at the opportunity to present its unique ICM software to Forsythe’s national customer base, which includes many Fortune 1000 and global companies,” says Bill Reed, Abrevity’s vice president of sales.
Abrevity will work with Forsythe’s 130-person national sales force, along with its more than 300 infrastructure consultants and product experts, to communicate the benefits of Abrevity’s tools to customers seeking information management solutions.
“Our customers look to us to evaluate the technologies out there and bring best-of-breed options to them. In the area of information management, we have been hearing for a long time about the struggle to manage vast amounts of information cost-effectively, in the face of security, compliance, and recoverability issues,” says Michael Conley, a vice president at Forsythe. “Businesses are searching for solutions that enable them to make better informed, more impactful decisions about information management policies, processes, and infrastructure. Abrevity has developed a truly innovative software technology that responds to this need. We’re excited about their solutions and our customers are starting to share that excitement.”
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 a 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 Solutions Group and Tech Data Corporation.
ABOUT Forsythe
Since 1971, Forsythe has served as a technology infrastructure solutions provider, helping organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, manage the cost and risk of their information technology. Acting as a trusted, independent advisor, Forsythe provides technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all of the leading technology product manufacturers.
Abrevity Announces eDiscovery Solution for Civil Rule 5 Amendments
Affordable Software Allows Compliance with December 1st Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
December 04, 2006
Cupertino, CA—Abrevity announced today the first affordable, all-in-one software solution that empowers compliance with the new federal rules in effect as of December 1, 2006 for electronic discovery of documents in civil cases. Abrevity’s FileData Classifier™ software and optional eDiscovery Module provides a complete suite to scan, discovery, classify (tag), policy-manage and track files and emails for legal discovery. The eDiscovery Module includes advanced pattern recognition, “target-based” data mining and heuristic proximity searching to discover and extract key words & phrases and social security, credit card, drivers license and customer account numbers. Regular expression generator capability in the software supports custom pattern recognition for product part numbers, patient IDs, phone numbers, zip codes, company names, etc. An optional module allows indexing and retrieval of individual files from tape media and the software supports hundreds of file types including Microsoft PST email archives. Live email support for Microsoft Exchange servers will be available by mid-year 2007.
“According to a recent survey conducted by Computerworld,” says Eric Madison, Abrevity’s Director of Marketing, “over 42% of the IT professionals surveyed said they did not know the status of their firm’s preparation for the new rules, and more than 32% said their company was not at all prepared to comply with the new requirements.”
The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) specify requirements for submitting electronic documents—including files and email—as evidence in civil cases. The rules were recommended in September 2005 by the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure. The below new Civil Rule 5 amendments, in effect as of December 1, 2006, can mandate stiff fines for non-compliance:
Rules 26 and 34 state that a pre-meeting must occur between the companies involved in the lawsuit—not just between the lawyers, but also between the IT departments. Each of the companies must represent where and how data is stored, and that technology is in place to provide access to that information. Abrevity’s FileData Classifier offers one of the lowest cost and easiest to implement solutions to meet this requirement.
Rule 34 also requires that organizations deliver the content in the format the requestor defines. Typically, the default is the native format, because it often contains hidden metadata that is erased when files convert to formats such as PDF. While this rule may preclude traditional enterprise search solutions—especially those that convert to a TIFF format—Abrevity’s FileData Classifier allows for extraction of hidden metadata and classification “tagging” of files in their native format and in their native storage locations.
Rule 37 codifies the standards around legal hold. When a lawsuit is ongoing, a company must stop destroying all information related to the case, regardless of its own systematic destruction policies. Many companies have automated systems to delete old e-mails or files, which could also delete evidence. Traditional search solutions that require full indexing are often slow, inefficient and expensive and do not offer policy management or file tagging to comply with this requirement. Abrevity’s FileData Classifier includes policy management and file tagging, as well as targeted discovery & extraction for faster performance with lower storage overheard.
“We’ve installed Abrevity’s FileData Classifier to help with tiered storage and information security,” says Michael Masterson, IT Architect at a Fortune 500 company. “Adding the eDiscovery Module will help us comply as needed with the new civil procedure amendmentsespecially those rules that call for evidence demonstrating where and how data is stored and retrieved.”
The new FRCP rules require that firms involved in civil litigation must meet within 30 days of the filing to determine how to handle electronic data. They must agree on what records are shared, the electronic format to be used and a definition of “accessible data.” Past court actions for failures to comply have been quite harsh and costly. For example, Morgan Stanley was fined $1.5 billion in May 2005 when a judge ruled that the company had failed to preserve information.
Starting at under $15,000, Abrevity’s FileData Classifier™ software application and eDiscovery Module rides on top of its SLICEbase data modeling engine and includes advanced patent-pending features that allow for fast, accurate and affordable information discovery, search, classification tagging and policy-based management.
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 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 Announces First Deployed ILS Solution
Version 2.1 FileData Classifier Software Empowers Information Lifecycle Security
September 19, 2006
Storage World Conference, Boston, MA—Abrevity, Inc. announced today general availability of its version 2.1 FileData Classifier™ software which includes advanced pattern recognition and metadata extraction technology for Information Lifecycle Security (ILS). Abrevity is the first to deploy, at actual customer sites, a “complete” ILS solution that solves the problem of discovery, extraction, classification and management for security-related non-public information (NPI).
“Over 102 security breaches were reported in 2005 that affected 56 million people,” said Abrevity vice president Bill Reed. “Studies show that 90% of organizations recently detected security breaches which can cost over $2 million each. It’s no wonder that firms of all sizes now list discovery, classification and proper management of security information as a top priority.”
Jon Oltsik, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), coined the acronym ILS in a recent article wherein he noted that IT professionals are seeking solutions for information security. And while a few storage vendors offer professional services and encryption hardware, they have yet to deliver comprehensive ILS solutions. Jon outlined nine key requirement areas for a “complete” ILS solution including Information Classification, Information Flow, Information Access, Information Usage, Information Risk Management, Policy Engines, Tagging and Metadata Repositories, Secure File Systems and Centralized Management.
“We would not consider deploying a tiered storage solution that does not include ILS,” said Michael Masterson, IT architect at a Fortune 500 company, “That’s why we’ll be using Abrevity’s FileData Classifier software to discover files that might contain confidential or non-public information—then tag those files and implement policies to migrate them to proper storage tiers.”
Customers using Abrevity’s software for ILS initiatives include Cox Communications, BD Biosciences, GEHA, Irwin Financial, Level III Services, Nuvera Fuel Cells and others.
According to Abrevity, all other Information Classification and Management solutions are built on relational database and/or enterprise search technologies. Leveraging a new metadata database and data model, Abrevity’s SLICEbase technology allows for orders of magnitude better scalability to billions of records, flexibility for on-the-fly schema changes, file version and genealogy tracking with stubbing, distributed “parallel” deployment including multi-threaded scanning and indexing, and most importantly, much lower cost as compared to other solutions.
Abrevity’s version 2.1 FileData Classifier application rides on top of its SLICEbase engine and now includes advanced pattern recognition, “target-based” data mining, heuristic proximity searching and other patent-pending features that allow for fast, accurate and affordable Information Lifecycle Security, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), compliance archiving, data grooming for backup & DR, legal discovery and laboratory instrument file management.
“While other solutions use off-the-shelf search and extraction technologies,” said Eric Madison, Abrevity’s director of marketing, “we invented our own. This gives us superior performance, accuracy and scalability, and allows us to deliver solutions requiring custom extraction pattern recognition at a fraction of the cost and time as compared to other vendors.”
Starting at below $10,000 for a three-terabyte version, Abrevity’s FileData Classifier software is available today through more than fifty authorized Abrevity resellers and distributors.
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 six top storage companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.
Abrevity, Breece Hill and QStar Announce First Automated Tiered Storage Appliance
ATS Appliance is the First to Integrate Disk and Tape Storage with Data Classification and HSM Software to Provide a Complete ILM Solution
September 27, 2006
Storage Decisions, New York, NY—Abrevity, Breece Hill and QStar Technologies today announced the first automated tiered storage (ATS) appliance. The ATS integrates Abrevity’s FileData Classifier™ software, QStar’s Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) software and Breece Hill’s iStoRA appliance that includes 3.2 terabytes (TBs) of network attached storage (NAS) and a 10-cartridge LTO3 tape autoloader. The combined solution offers the benefits of content-aware data classification, automated data movement with HSM file stubbing and genealogy tracking, disk to disk NAS and archive tape all in a single box.
“All of the storage industry surveys show that Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) powered by the need for Data Classification is the primary budget priority for enterprises of every size this year,” says Eric Madison, Abrevity’s director of marketing, “but no integrated solution has been available until now. The ATS Appliance provides IT professionals with an automated, tiered storage solution that can be deployed in one of two scenarios. First, as a Tier One storage solution with automated classification and archiving focused at smaller firms or the remote office of a larger enterprise. Second, the ATS can be deployed as a Tier Two (NAS) and Tier Three (tape) classification and archiving solution for the enterprise.”
Experts agree that, in most organizations, over 50% of the files residing on expensive primary storage may be candidates for movement to lower cost tier two or even tier three archives. Going far beyond basic data classification solutions that only classify on file system metadata—such as file dates and types—the Automated Tiered Storage Appliance is the first to offer granular file path metadata and in-file content extraction coupled with custom file tagging for classification. It is also the first to offer multi-tier file tracking coupled with file movement from primary storage to both network attached secondary storage and archive tape, as well as heterogeneous file stubbing.
“What’s really groundbreaking about the ATS,” says Jim Wheeler, director of marketing for Qstar Technologies, “is that a shortcut is left on both primary and secondary storage for files moved to tape in the unit. Users can simply click on that shortcut and the software will load the proper tape and retrieve that file. Integrating the QStar HSM software with Abrevity’s FileData Classifier into the Breece Hill iStoRA allows this unique feature.”
Users can also search for files using the Abrevity FileData Classifier software and set up scheduled automated policies for system scanning, metadata extraction, file tagging, de-duplication, report creation and file movement. The ATS ships with a dual Xeon® processor, 3.2 TBs of RAID 5 disk, Windows 2003 Server (NAS) and an LTO3 tape drive with a 10-cartridge autoloader. Integrated is Abrevity’s v2.7 FileData Classifier and QStar’s HSM software with single console operation. Starting at $49,875, the integrated ATS appliance is available through Atria Data Systems and other select solution providers.
“The combined features of Abrevity and QStar strengthen the management capabilities of tiered, end-to-end data storage,” says Tony Mercado, Director at Breece Hill. “Breece Hill’s iStoRA appliance provides the ideal platform for this integrated ILM solution. By migrating data from primary to secondary storage, automatically within the same enclosure, we can further reduce the administrative costs and media outlays that have been prohibitive with other ILM solutions. In addition, companies get the best in application performance and data availability.”
“Purchasing storage in an ad hoc manner as data expands is self-defeating,” said Dan Tanner of ProgresSmart. “As such, a tiered-storage approach is being mandated by most organizations in order to achieve rational ILM. However, because of the complexities involved, many enterprises are struggling with the logistics of implementing a comprehensive ILM strategy. The introduction of an appliance, such as the ATS, promises to address the problem in a very manageable and rational way.”
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 six top storage companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.
ABOUT Breece Hill
Breece Hill (www.breecehill.com), a leader in data protection solutions for small to medium-size businesses and workgroups, provides integrated data protection solutions covering a wide variety of customer requirements. Breece Hill helps small and medium-sized companies implement an effective data protection strategy – designed for businesses that don’t have large staffs and huge budgets. The company’s versatile, high quality solutions help small and medium businesses overcome their ever-growing storage challenges. Since 1993 more than 25,000 units have been shipped worldwide. Breece Hill distributes its solutions through a combination of distributors, Value Added Resellers/solution providers and OEM alliance partners.
ABOUT Qstar Technologies
QStar Technologies is a leading storage management software company that provides sophisticated, large-scale client/server archive and data protection solutions for UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems. QStar provides tiered based storage solutions that allow every level of the corporation to organize and manage data storage resources of even the most heterogeneous networks. The world’s leading companies increasingly rely on QStar for the secure, cost effective and reliable storage of their critical data. QStar software supports a wide range of hardware platforms and storage devices, incorporating new technology, as it becomes available. The company’s corporate headquarter is located at 2175 West Hwy 98, Mary Esther, Florida 32569 (850) 243-0900 fax: (850) 243-4234, Web Site: www.QStar.com, with further sales and development offices in Europe.
Abrevity Announces the First Reseller Program For SMB and Enterprise Information Classification and Management Solution Providers
New ValuePartner Program and Web Portal Designed by Leading Industry Experts
June 20, 2006
Storage World Conference, Long Beach, CA—Abrevity, Inc., today announced the first partner program for information classification and management solution providers that is suitable for small and medium business (SMB) through enterprise-centric resellers. Designed by leading industry experts from BusinessLaunch, Inc. and TreeHouse Interactive, Abrevity’s ValuePartner Program™ offers a full suite of reseller deal registration & tracking, sales & marketing resources, lead qualification & appointment setting services, market development funds, ROI calculators, prospect qualifying templates and more. Addressing customer requirements for tiered storage, compliance archiving, intelligent backup, information security, legal discovery and lab instrument file management, Abrevity is experiencing strong demand for its software solutions and is expanding its channels to meet that demand.
“The opening keynote address at Storage World Conference is all about Intelligent Information Management,” says Bill Reed, Abrevity’s vice president of marketing. “Abrevity offers resellers the only solution in this space that can scale from SMB through enterprise, and a value to price ratio that can drive a less than thirty-day sales cycle. One of our resellers recently started with a below five-thousand dollar sale that’s quickly growing into a multi-million dollar worldwide deployment.”
Abrevity contracted with BusinessLaunch to help design a world class reseller program that includes lead qualification and appointment setting. BusinessLaunch has delivered similar services to Network Appliance, Computer Associates, Sony, GlassHouse, ADIC and others.
“BusinessLaunch uses a very refined process for lead qualification,” says BusinessLaunch COO, Jeff Thompson. “Our telemarketing professionals are all senior level and our processes quantify the value of the prospect. We also set appointments for Abrevity’s resellers.”
Abrevity’s ValuePartner Program Portal was designed by TreeHouse Interactive, which has delivered similar partner and deal registration portals for Quantum, Network Appliance, Pillar Data and others.
“Abrevity’s partner portal is on a par with virtually any storage industry leader,” says Erich Flynn, TreeHouse Interactive’s CEO. “It’s a comprehensive site where prospective resellers have all the tools they need to successfully sell Abrevity products. It features automated online applications and approvals, deal registration and access to all the sales and marketing tools partners will need.”
Abrevity offers the first and only fully-featured Information Classification and Management solutions starting at below $2,500 per terabyte. Offering such advanced features as Windows and UNIX search, automated file tagging, content extraction, pattern recognition and policy management with file stubbing & tracking, Abrevity’s FileData Classifier for SMBs and FileData Manager for enterprises are the only solutions not debilitated by traditional relational database or enterprise search technologies.
"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."
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 $2,500 per terabyte and are the only Information Classification and Management (ICM) solutions suitable for Small to Medium Businesses (SMB) through Fortune 500 enterprises.
PAC Data Signs Distributor Deal with Abrevity
Abrevity’s software products will help PAC Data’s resellers offer sophisticated and effective tiered-data storage solutions with higher margins
August 21, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc. announced today that PAC Data has agreed to distribute Abrevity’s information classification and management software. PAC Data is a value-added distributor (VAD) of storage products to VARs and resellers nationwide. The company maintains relations with the leading innovators of both storage hardware and software products that enable their resellers to offer the best storage solutions to their customers.
“Many VARs and resellers are experts in networking, but they may not be as adept with storage technologies, which are constantly changing,” said Rick Crane, President and CEO of PAC Data. “Because we focus solely on storage, our sales and engineering staff is prepared to provide our VARs and resellers with assistance and guidance at all levels of a sale. Our deal with Abrevity reflects this philosophy perfectly because Abrevity’s solutions allow us, for example, to sell a comprehensive tiered storage solution that will allow customers to automatically move secondary data onto less expensive storage or an archive rather than purchasing additional primary storage they don’t need.”
“PAC Data is smart to realize that selling complete storage solutions, consisting of hardware and software, helps VARs and resellers maintain very healthy margins,” said Abrevity CEO Rich Preston. “Being able to bring complete data storage solutions into a customer site also vastly increases their overall value-add to their customers.”
Abrevity’s solutions, FileData Classifier™ and FileData Manager™, provide an unprecedented granular visibility into file and email content that allow fast, accurate data classification for a wide range of data classification options. Abrevity’s products are the only solutions available that allow any enterprise, small or large, to implement full Information Lifecycle and Information Security Management, compliance archiving, legal discovery and intelligent data backup.
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 six top storage companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.
Stanford Computer Science Professor, Jennifer Widom, joins Abrevity’s Board of Advisors
Jennifer’s background in nontraditional data management is an excellent fit with Abrevity’s move into metadata database technologies
August 28, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc. announced today the addition of Jennifer Widom to their advisory board. Currently a professor at Stanford’s Computer Science and EE departments, Jennifer brings extensive experience in databases and information management.
Jennifer received a Bachelors degree from the Indiana University School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center where she was involved in research covering many aspects of nontraditional data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, and has served on a variety of program committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards.
“We are honored to welcome Jennifer to our advisory board,” said Abrevity CEO Rich Preston. “Her extensive background and leadership in databases the information management field will be invaluable as Abrevity continues its pioneering efforts into metadata technology, which is moving far beyond the rigidly structured technology of relational databases.
Abrevity’s new database technology is already beginning to have a positive effect on problems such as addressing Information Lifecycle Security (ILS), which is one of the most critical issues facing today’s enterprises. Jennifer’s deep understanding of this technology will be will be a great help to Abrevity as we move forward.”
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 six top storage companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.
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.
Oracle Co-Founder, Bruce Scott, joins Abrevity’s Board of Advisors
Bruce’s extensive background in developing databases, such as SQLBase, will aid Abrevity in refining its next generation of solutions
August 28, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc. announced today the addition of Bruce Scott to their advisory board. A co-founder of Oracle, Bruce is currently vice president of engineering at SenSage.
Bruce’s experience in developing ground-breaking databases is very extensive. Prior to SenSage, Bruce founded and served as CEO at Pointbase, a provider of Java-based embedded databases. Before that, he was a co-founder of Gupta Corporation, where he was vice president of Database and Connectivity Research and Development. At Gupta, he invented SQLBase, the first commercially available PC-oriented client/server database. He also developed the patented, software development design paradigm for SQLWindows. As one of the four co-founders of Oracle Corporation, Scott was the Principle Engineer and Architect of the first three versions of the Oracle database. Bruce holds a B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University.
“Bruce will be a very strong addition to our advisory board,” said Abrevity CEO Rich Preston. “His pioneering efforts in developing databases that have become de facto industry standards have fostered an extensive understanding on his part of how to develop highly successful commercial databases. This sage knowledge will be a great help to Abrevity as we mature our technology during the coming years.”
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 six top storage companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.
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.
Abrevity Announces the First Solution to Streamline Laboratory Instrument File Analysis, Classification and Compliance Reporting
BioData Manager goes beyond bioinformatics and enterprise search by adding granular data discovery, context classification and transparent data management
February 13, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc. today came out of stealth mode to announce BioData Manager. Based on a patent pending, metadata database technology, the new software product is the first solution to transcend the crippling limitations of traditional methods of finding, extracting, classifying and managing laboratory instrument files to facilitate analysis, compliance, litigation, security and Information Value Management (IVM).
Prior to BioData Manager, scientists and IT professionals relied on inefficient and time-consuming data extraction and management methods for laboratory instrument files. Lacking granular information discovery, classification and policy management, traditional bioinformatics and search solutions offer inadequate file visibility, slow indexing, high storage overhead and limited scalability. They are also typically three to four times the cost of BioData Manager.
“Abrevity’s BioData Manager™ software solves the pain of mission-critical file management for firms using laboratory instruments by leveraging a patent-pending SLICE™ technology,” said Joel Harrison, Abrevity chief technology officer. “BioData Manager can be installed in minutes to find and extract targeted data values or strings found inside files created by flow cytometers, Confocal microscopes or other laboratory instruments. This empowers scientific analysis, FDA reporting, data grooming, intelligent backup, tiered storage and compliance archiving.”
“Abrevity looks inside FACS and other instrument files to extract target data, tag the files with new metadata for classification and allow for policy-based management,” says Tom Mumford, CEO of TriAxis Storage Solutions, Inc. “In addition to extracting vital data from a mountain of lab instrument files, it answers one of the most important ILM questions—how to classify files based on the value they have to the business.”
Life sciences organizations generate more data than most other vertical markets through their use of laboratory instruments to analyze cellular and molecular mechanisms and conduct clinical research. The instruments can often generate more than a terabyte of information per experiment, and their use is rapidly growing. Mission critical discovery, classification and management of these files for analysis and compliance is slow, costly and inefficient. A time-to-market delay of one day can cost some firms several million dollars. FDA fines can cost hundreds of thousands and storage requirements are doubling each year. BioData Manager is the first product to deliver a flexible, scalable, affordable solution to address these problems.
"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 initial focus on the laboratory instrument market and 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 by scientists today."
Today, Abrevity also announced FileData Manager, a software solution that provides content and context visibility into common files and emails for data classification and Information Value Management. This granular visibility allows efficient discovery and management of valuable information for compliance, security, legal discovery, business intelligence, disaster recovery and intelligent backup.
About Abrevity
Abrevity is Silicon Valley’s leading innovator of Information Value Management™ (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 50 enterprises.