Attune Systems Announces eDiscovery and Archive Solution

Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of
enterprise-class file management solutions, today announced the Maestro
Intelligent Archive Manager (MIAM), delivering an eDiscovery repository
and file archival management through the company’s latest file
virtualization technology. MIAM allows organizations to be prepared in
litigation situations, when the need for electronic evidence may
require an organization to search for important information in a timely
and cost-effective manner.

The Maestro Intelligent
Archive Manager enables customers to build large-scale file archives
based on industry-standard storage systems. Single-instance file
storage avoids storing duplicate files, thus significantly decreasing
the footprint of the archive Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager is
based on Attune’s leading file virtualization technology, allowing
storage administrators, legal and compliance teams to view the archive
via different views, such as by server, date or file owner.

“The Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager will be a great solution for
customers, allowing them to easily take advantage of file-based
virtualization in existing Windows environments,” said Kevin Haynes,
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and former
technology security manager at City of Jacksonville. “There is no
additional load on the network. Searches are performed on the Maestro
archive, so there is no need to access back-end storage, avoiding an
extra load on the production storage or network. Users and network
administrators will be able to access virtual folders containing
archives, and the provided calendar or server views will help users
easily locate what they need, with complete integration with the native
Windows security model.”

“This centralized data capture
and archiving product from Attune is designed to access, capture, and
consolidate CIFS file data and snapshots across an organization,” said
Jeff Boles, technology analyst with Taneja Group. “MIAM can easily
reduce backup complexity and licensing cost by offloading and managing
data protection for all unstructured data across the enterprise, act as
a master D2D repository, provide a master repository against which to
do non-intrusive data classification, and support eDiscovery
applications. Attune Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager product looks
compelling for data archiving, as well as enhancing online data
protection and retention without complex VTL and distributed backup
technologies.”

The Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager
complements existing archive and storage solutions, because it is
hardware-agnostic. Customers can create the archive based on the
storage of their choosing. Customers can even choose to utilize a
block-level deduplication offering from companies such as Data Domain
to further reduce the storage footprint at a block level in conjunction
with MIAM’s file level deduplication.

Searches based on
point-in-time views of the file system can be performed on traditional
file-level metadata attributes such as owner, size, last access, last
modify, size, and location within the file system, but also on the
rights or capabilities of an individual at various points-in-time along
a timeline of the file system’s history, delivering invaluable insights
for the IT, legal and compliance teams within an organization. System
administrators can now create an enterprise-wide view of the Windows
file system over various points in time and then export it, empowering
users to easily find their required files.

“With this
new addition to our product line, we prove once more that our file
virtualization technology can help customers protect their
mission-critical data while accessing that information in an easy and
cost-effective way, and reducing their backup windows,” said Jill Kyte,
Attune’s vice president of marketing and business development."In
today’s environments, which are witnessing an explosive growth of
unstructured data on top of the increased data retention, legal and
compliance requirements, Attune’s Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager
provides fast time-to-information without affecting the performance of
the primary storage and network."

MIAM can be easily
deployed and does not require any changes to the current data
protection solutions in the customer’s environment, while being able to
use existing storage resources to create the MIAM archive repository.
Building the MIAM archive can be done through several ingest options:
by walking the file system, by ingesting tapes from a tape library, or
by ingesting snapshots from existing CIFS devices, including NetApp
filers and Windows-based NAS.

Attune Systems Inc.