• Proactively identify, classify and manage all information according to business value and risk.
• Consistently implement retention processes.
• Proactively destroy records that do not meet your records retention policies.

Proper information governance, including compliance and risk management, has become a business-critical goal in today’s business world. Proper information governance demands an in-depth assessment of unstructured data across the enterprise followed by careful decisions about security, privacy, retention and deletion.

StoredIQ Information Governance has been designed for the corporate governance, regulatory compliance and risk management needs of today. Backed by industry-leading speed and patented technology, this software-based appliance can be used alone or with other StoredIQ products to develop a scalable, easy-to-use yet powerful solution.

With StoredIQ Information Governance, organizations can develop a reliable, effective approach for information governance while also containing the IT costs associated with unstructured information.

StoredIQ Information Governance can be rapidly deployed onsite—only space, network access and power are required. In fact, the typical appliance implementation takes an hour from mounting the appliance to initiating the first scan.

StoredIQ Information Governance is a non-intrusive network appliance, with no desktop agent installation and no disruption to end users during deployment and operation.

StoredIQ Information Governance includes a powerful engine for classification and policy implementation. An intuitive web interface allows users to easily create and define linguistically enabled custom classification lexicons or choose from over 50 out-of-the-box lexicons. Users can select combinations of metadata, natural-language derived concepts and facts, other natural language expressions, alphanumeric patterns, and keywords, all combined with context-based proximity and scoping technologies.

Implementation policies are based on these classifications. Policies can be defined to associate an appropriate action (such as retain or secure) and apply it to positively identified and classified objects. Policies are symmetrically scaled across the StoredIQ platform to improve performance and scalability. Deep policy auditing at the individual item level is also supported.

StoredIQ Information Governance can profile your active ESI according to your scan criteria, creating an auditable data topology map. This map shows the locations of active ESI in locations such as network services, email servers, content management systems, storage systems and PCs.

Using the linguistically enabled classification function, users can identify content that does not comply with corporate governance policies and ensure that these issues are addressed before they become legal issues. Out-of-the-box privacy classifications identify personally identifiable content, so users can easily define security or migration policies that address the increasing demand of state and federal privacy laws.

StoredIQ Information Governance helps ensure strict adherence to regulatory compliance and corporate information governance policies, based on the following capabilities:

With the patent-pending classification editor, risk management teams can encode rules that identify risk that has led to previous legal matters and activate policies to ensure proper notification. The product provides 18 dimensions of individually identifiable information, such as social security or credit card numbers, that can be enabled and associated with secure or migrate policies to ensure automated remediation. The product’s security policies can update or replace system access control lists to ensure only authorized personnel have access to secure or confidential business data.

In a clustered configuration with distributed capabilities, StoredIQ Information Governance ensures that organizations have the reach they need for a thorough inventory. Users can search for information that is increasingly distributed in file servers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices across multiple locations and networks. Approximately 300 different file types can be recognized while accessing multiple volumes simultaneously and managing hundreds of millions of objects, at speed.

StoredIQ Information Governance comes equipped with comprehensive lexicons of content entities, developed in conjunction with industry experts and supporting industries such as health and finance. Users can easily extend the vocabulary of the system with custom classifications and create a rich semantic vocabulary that is designed for the needs of the organization.

The policy editor available with StoredIQ Information Governance enables users to define business policies that associate the appropriate actions that will be applied to positively identified and classified objects. Users can also identify and delete business records that fall outside of the company’s record retention policy.

StoredIQ Information Governance provides deep integration into file systems and NAS devices that communicate using CIFS, NFS and Netware protocols. It also features a comprehensive storage management dashboard that articulates storage utilization by owner, duplicate, activity, age, location, type and category enabling you to easily create system meta-data based classifications for use in security and migration policies.

StoredIQ Information Governance has both active and passive Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) policy support with active integration into both NetApps Fpolicy and EMC File Mover interfaces. HSM policies can be defined to use EMC’s Centera, NetApp Snaplock or any NFS/CIFS share as the secondary storage target. The product’s active HSM interfaces are high scaleable and available as they execute across a StoredIQ distributed cluster architecture.

StoredIQ provides companies with application modules for Intelligent eDiscovery, eDiscovery Preparedness and Information Governance. Each application is built upon a common software platform, allowing for application modules to seamlessly operate on the same appliance cluster. With our application module approach combined with flexible appliance configurations, StoredIQ allows you to purchase only the functionality that you require.

We’ll be happy to talk with you about StoredIQ products and solutions. Call us at 512.334.3100 or contact us by email.