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Symantec reveals mid-year plans
By Beth Pariseau | Mar 4, 2010
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PrintSymantec Corp. is planning to pull together more intellectual property (IP) from its data storage and security businesses this year. The company says it will launch software in mid-2010 called Data Insight and integrate it with other products in the Symantec portfolio to link IT resources with data owners.
Other vendors have products that can provide this functionality, including data classification offerings from EMC Corp.'s Kazeon and StoredIQ and legal review products from e-discovery software vendors that track data according to case and custodian. Where Symantec is looking to get an edge on the market is in integrating Data Insight with its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software, CommandCentral Storage storage resource management (SRM) tool and Enterprise Vault data archiving product.
Symantec plans to add Data Insight to Symantec DLP around mid-year. The DLP suite monitors data storage repositories, end points and the network to ensure sensitive data isn't accessed by unauthorized users or sent out of the organization. Without Data Insight, when DLP finds sensitive data in an unsecure location, remediation is a manual process that requires trial and error to identify the owners of the data and get it stored in the proper location. Data Insight will identify the business owner responsible for the data.
"Who owns data isn't always captured by file system metadata," said Sean Derrington, Symantec's director of storage management and high availability. Instead, the "owner" of data is represented by whoever last accessed or created a file, or the administrator of the server where the file originated, rather than its proper custodian within the organization. "You can gather what's in the file, but you don't necessarily have a proper picture to administer it properly."
According to Robert Hamilton, Symantec's senior product marketing manager for DLP, Data Insight is integrated with APIs from NetApp Inc. and EMC's Celerra business unit and Microsoft Corp.'s Active Directory, and there are plans to expand support to Unix systems.
After the integration with DLP, Symantec will work on integrating CommandCentral Storage and Enterprise Vault. While little information about the planned integration is currently being disclosed by Symantec, the purpose of the integrations would be to improve chargeback and support policy-based archive management.
This article originally appeared on SearchStorage.com
