Symantec unveils solution for information governance

Symantec has introduced 'Symantec Data Insight 3.0,' a solution that improves information governance by providing intelligence into ownership and usage of unstructured data such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails.

The solution helps organizations transform storage operations, and simplify information governance processes to reduce costs, risks, and achieve compliance.

It consistently monitors data usage, and enables rule-based inferences for data ownership, with which the IT organizations can establish a framework for collaboration with the business, to address data governance objectives.

With optimizations in collection, indexing and query algorithms, it delivers actionable analytics, with enhanced performance across large data sets. It helps storage, security and compliance professionals, to better manage and protect unstructured data, via a new data custodian management feature.

It also provides comprehensive support for leading platforms such as NetApp NAS, EMC NAS, windows file servers, Microsoft sharepoint, and unix file servers with Veritas storage foundation file system. It also provides support for directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, and NIS/NIS+.

''Data Insight 3.0 enables our customers to not only identify data owners but also automatically engage them to reduce storage management costs, achieve compliance, and facilitate data protection, thereby increasing the effectiveness of an organization's data governance initiatives,'' said Anand Naik, director, Technology Sales, India and SAARC, Symantec.