Symantec Data Insight 3.0 is the latest version of the company’s solution that improves information governance by providing intelligence into ownership and usage of unstructured data such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails. Enhancements to Symantec Data Insight help organizations transform storage operations and simplify information governance processes to reduce costs, reduce risk and achieve compliance.
2. Unstructured Information Growth Leads To Challenges
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- Gartner, December 2011
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Who Owns the Data? How is the Data Used? Protect the Data
• Inadequate metadata • Who has accessed the • Who should have access?
information data over time? • Are there gaps in the
• Pre-requisite for other • When is the data no protection or entitlements
business initiatives longer needed? scheme?
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3. Bridging IT And Business Gap Is The Key To Getting
In Control Of Runaway Data Growth
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4. Symantec Data Insight Improves Organization’s Data
Governance
Users
• Data Insight solution
– Identifies data owners
– Monitors data usage
– Tracks audit trail
Symantec Data Insight – Reviews permissions
– Integrates with Symantec Data
Loss Prevention and Veritas
File System Monitoring Technology Storage Foundation
• Data ownership/usage drives
– Data security remediation
– Data storage efficiency
– Data management policy and
Data (File Servers) compliance
Microsoft Windows • NetApp DataONTAP • Microsoft Sharepoint
EMC Celerra • UNIX file servers with Veritas Storage Foundation File System
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5. What’s New in Data Insight 3.0
Data Custodian Comprehensive Enhanced Scale and
Management Coverage Performance
• Discover and manage data • Veritas Storage Foundation • Optimized indexing and
custodians integration query
• Engage custodians • Enhanced NetApp, • Lower TCO considerations
automatically SharePoint support • Tuned for very large data
• Enable large-scale • Directory services for LDAP, sets and rates
automation NIS/NIS+ support
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6. Applications Of Data Insight
Improved Data Achieve Protect Data from
Management Compliance Security Risks
• Identify stale and orphan • Discover and manage • Remediate sensitive data
data and drive cleanup custodians with Symantec Data Loss
• Build a consumption based • Automate data access Prevention integration
chargeback model reviews • Audit historical access,
• Understand usage and • Adhere to data retention monitor sensitive data usage
consumption patterns guidelines • Find data at greatest risk of
exposure and lockdown
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7. Automate Data Governance
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Case Studies
1. Efficiency • Confidently delete , archive or move stale/orphan data while adhering
to data retention guidelines
2. Regulatory Compliance • Review access permissions and activity to achieve compliance
3. Risk Reduction • Review activity and alerts to spot inappropriate use, notify owner that
data is exposed, streamline Data Loss Prevention remediation
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8. Data Insight/Storage Foundation integration
Users
NFS Access Benefits
• Data Governance for
Unix/Storage Foundation
Unix Server with Storage Foundation servers
• Data ownership/usage
Register Publish classification to guide tiering
or scan events and compression
Symantec Data Insight Collectors
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9. Data Insight Key Take-Aways
Addresses crucial challenges around securing and managing
data
Security and storage convergence – delivering on the
Symantec/Veritas promise
Provides an information-centric approach to data governance
Release delivers large-scale automation and enhanced
performance across comprehensive data sources
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