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Kazeon Assessment Program Reveals Almost Half of All Enterprise Unstructured Data Is Stale, Less Than One Quarter Relevant to Current Business Objectives
Results Showcase Trends Across Multiple Industries, Reinforces Critical Need for Unstructured Information Management Solutions
| Source: Kazeon
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 12, 2007 -- Kazeon, the recognized leader in
unstructured information management, today announced recent findings based
on the results of its new Data Assessment Service. Working with businesses
across five countries and in eight different vertical industries including
financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and energy, Kazeon has
compiled a behind-the-scenes look at the current state of unstructured data
stored across the enterprise. According to results of the data assessment
service, Kazeon found that, on average, half of all unmanaged data is stale
and only one quarter of data is actually current and relevant to the
organization's business. In addition, an average of 18 percent of all
stored data was deemed to be duplicate information and an average 4 percent
of stored data was found to be completely unrelated to business.
"We have found that, on average, businesses are only deriving real value
from about 25 percent of their data," noted Tom Thimot, COO of Kazeon. "In
the meantime, unconstrained storage growth is driving high operational and
capital costs. That means companies are spending a great deal of time and
money storing and managing information that delivers no business value to
the company's bottom line."
According to a recent Gartner conference poll (1), 45% of those polled have
no idea what percentage of their data has been accessed in the past 60 to
90 days. A little over 50% of those polled reported that they believe
anywhere from 45% to 75% of their data had not been accessed during the
past 60 to 90 days.
The Kazeon Data Assessment Program can help customers educate themselves
and determine the impact on their storage budgets for archiving
less-frequently used data.
With unstructured information difficult to manage and control,
organizations are faced with higher storage, power, backup, and replication
costs. Kazeon's Data Assessment Service, based on the award-winning
IS1200-FRM, provides insight into data usage and value through the delivery
of a standard set of reports across a "slice" of a customer's storage
environment. This revealing baseline information enables IT to quickly
understand how their storage is being utilized and provides a sound,
evidence-based foundation for further actions and initiatives.
The Kazeon Data Assessment Service is a one-week program during which
Kazeon consultants will utilize the IS1200-FRM to automatically gather
information within a customer's environment. Kazeon consultants then embed
reports into a final document that alert companies to various factors such
as file duplication, frequency of access and frequency of updates to files.
The service is available now at a cost of $10,000 which includes the
delivery and rental of the IS1200-FRM, configuration and set up, data
collection of a representative 4 TB sample of data, and the delivery of a
detailed final document.
More about the IS1200-FRM
The IS1200-FRM is the first product that delivers unmatched performance and
scalability for enterprise file reporting and migration within an
integrated appliance. The IS1200-FRM includes dozens of pre-packaged
standard reports enabling IT administrators to get started immediately to
get a detailed view of their environment based on attributes such as tier,
size, and age. Reports can be generated based on utilization to attribute
storage consumption to different departments. Flexible reporting allows
administrators to customize report results to obtain the information they
need and view it in a way most appropriate for that organization.
The base IS1200-FRM system provides an economical way for IT administrators
to gain visibility into the file data scattered across their enterprise
networks. Administrators can dramatically reduce the amount of effort spent
manually gathering information and can focus on high value activities to
better plan, review utilization by users and groups, and attribute storage
consumption to different departments.
Availability
The Kazeon Data Assessment Service and IS1200-FRM are available now. Please
visit www.kazeon.com for additional details or contact your Kazeon sales
manager.
About Kazeon
Kazeon is recognized as the industry leader in Unstructured Information
Management. The Information Server product line provides the foundation
for corporations to search, manage, and secure their digital assets.
Through innovative data indexing, classification and search technology,
Kazeon has helped hundreds of customer's worldwide drive out excessive
cost, risk, and drain on productivity associated with the rapid growth of
information to tackle the challenges of Legal Discovery, Compliance, and
Data Privacy. In securing partnerships with Google and Network Appliance,
Kazeon has quickly gained wide market acceptance for its award-winning
products, as recognized by Storage Magazine, Network World, Datamation, and
InfoStor. Leading global organizations like SAP, GE, Cisco, Bosch, ING
Group, Phillips, Novartis, and INVESCO rely on Kazeon solutions.
Founded in 2003, Kazeon is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For
additional information about Kazeon, please visit http://www.kazeon.com.
(1) "Polling Results Show Plans to Implement Archiving to Improve Storage
Management," Carolyn DiCenzo, Gartner, February 26, 2007