Enterprise Vault 12 and Data Insight 5.1 Software From Veritas

Veritas Technologies LLC announced innovations to Enterprise Vault 12 and Data Insight 5.1 including advanced classification, support for Box, and automated remediation workflows.

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Together they provide businesses with critical visibility into their unstructured data and empower informed decisions about what critical information to retain and what to delete for compliance, business value and discovery. This is more important than ever as the Data Genomics Index, also released, reveals that 41% of data has not been modified in a typical corporation and is three or more years old.

“In today’s digital age, virtually every organization struggles with the challenges brought on by exponential data growth with the average business spending as much as $20.5 million annually on stale data,” said Greg Muscarella, SVP and GM, information intelligence, Veritas. “To manage their data deluge, most seek to expand their existing infrastructure. However, a proactive information governance strategy can deliver significant bottom line results while reducing risk. Enterprise Vault 12 and Data Insight 5.1 deliver critical innovations that empower organizations to gain visibility into their data and make smart decisions.“

Enterprise Vault 12
Organizations increasingly must keep some information and delete other information to meet governance and regulatory requirements or for business intelligence. Enterprise Vault 12 introduces a centralized, high-performance, highly flexible classification framework that simplifies identifying meaningful or regulated information while deleting the non-essential. Using firms’ patent-pending technology or a compatible classification engine, Enterprise Vault 12 automatically classifies ingested content including emails, files, SharePoint, instant messaging, and social media. Additionally, as an archive vendor, the company provides customers that have petabytes of already archived information the ability to re-classify it in a manner that helps them better adjust their long-term information-retention.

Other capabilities include:

• Intelligent review – supervision of archived content by prioritizing relevant items for review and culling non-relevant items utilizing a continuously learning engine.

• Gated deletion – improves compliance by ensuring archived information is deleted only if it meets current retention policies. Organizatins can now perform a policy check before expiration or user deletion.

• Image OCR (optical character recognition) – enables search and discovery of archived images by extracting embedded text from images for indexing and classification.

• Enterprise Vault search – simplifies and speeds access to archived information with a new enhanced, intuitive interface.

For over a decade, the firm has been recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for both Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances ⁽¹⁾ and Enterprise Information Archiving ⁽²⁾. Veritas Enterprise Vault is the market-share leader of on-premises enterprise-information archiving solutions.

Data Insight 5.1
Organizations need to manage their most sensitive data and have it accessible by authorized users when needed. This is increasingly important as information is stored not just on premises but also potentially across multiple cloud locations. Data Insight 5.1 introduces support for Box, delivering the broadest ability to identify sensitive information across the enterprise, from on-premises storage to the most popular cloud options. It also offers enhanced remediation workflows to make access and permissions changes as automated and repeatable as possible, with easy access via a self-service portal. Veritas is able to uniquely deliver this capability at petabyte scales, by quickly scanning billions of file attributes and user activity.

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“Veritas has a unique ability to deliver insights regarding enterprise data,” said Sean Pike, program director, next-generation data security and eDiscovery and information governance, IDC. “They are hyper-focused on offering solutions that provide visibility into their customers’ information. That visibility allows Veritas customers to make better, more-informed decisions about what to protect and what to delete. Proactive information-focused decisions allow enterprises to mitigate the likelihood of an information crisis, and focus energy and resources on protecting mission-critical information assets. Delivering this intelligence is central to the end customer.“

⁽¹⁾  Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances, Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen, Robert Rhame, June 15, 2015
⁽²⁾  Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving, Alan Dayley, Garth Landers, Anthony Kros, October 29, 2015. Note, from 2005-2009 the research was called Magic Quadrant for Email Active Archiving.