Keeping Your IT Budget Afloat

The pressure on internal systems is increasing—litigation is up 43%, the volume of unstructured content is growing at a rate of 61% per year and budgets are frozen. The digital universe will grow to 988 exabytes in 2010, and organizations will have responsibility or liability for 85% of the information. The overloaded information processing and governance systems are burdening companies with higher capital and operating expenses, as costs escalate and service levels fail to meet expectations. New strategies must be adopted and innovative technologies implemented to achieve critical, quantifiable savings.

The traditional approach to storing, maintaining and managing unstructured content entails a massive fixed operating cost, yet organizations typically experience no return on the ongoing investment in additional software and storage for managing data. One of the main problems is that storage systems only offer rudimentary information management with no compliance or e-discovery capabilities. As a result, the volume of stored data continues to escalate uncontrolled since no data can effectively be deleted, limiting visibility, and impairing IT’s ability to respond to line of business requirements, investigations or e-discovery requests. The risk increases unchecked and costs mount.

In order to reduce risk exposure and cap hardware and storage costs, organizations must overcome the mind-set of "keep-it-all, storage is cheap," which invariably leads to the proliferation of terabytes or even petabytes of uncontrolled data. To regain visibility and control of both risk and costs, the existing data must be identified, categorized and culled in accordance to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) guidelines and company governance policies. In parallel, new content should be subjected to the same process, creating a uniform enforcement and defensible process of information management across all sources.

Organizations need a unified information infrastructure that eliminates the cost and risk of multiple handoffs between systems and which significantly reduces the reliance on manual processes, providing tangible ROI. New information processing capabilities can reduce storage and compliance costs by more than 50% annually, saving millions. 

Autonomy IDOL
Autonomy provides unprecedented access and information control across 400 content repositories and 1,000 file formats, structured and unstructured. The Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform utilizes the power of Meaning Based Computing to form a conceptual understanding of content and the relationship between files. This enables a new generation of solutions that can intelligently leverage information to automate tasks previously requiring human action, providing significant ROI in storage, e-discovery, compliance, SharePoint, pan-enterprise search, data disposition, legal hold, data spoliation, email servers and administration.

Slash the cost of data storage:

• Advanced de-duplication and near de-duplication of managed and archived content, leading to storage savings of up to 50%;
• Defensible disposition of 80% to 100% of data currently stored beyond legal and regulatory retention period;
• Rapid analysis, categorization and visibility into existing and newly acquired data stores without the need for complex and costly adapters;
• High-performance speed of ingestion and massive scalability to centralize storage at a lower cost; and
• Hosted and managed services to reduce administration needs by up to 80% and eliminate the cost of managing redundant systems.
  

Slash the cost of e-discovery, supervision, compliance and internal investigations:

• A unified solution spanning the electronic discovery reference model (EDRM) eliminates multiple disparate systems and reduces the volume of content to review by as much as 90%;
• Unmatched analytical tools expedite the investigation and review process by rapidly culling batches of irrelevant data, saving millions in monitoring and review costs;
• Preserve in-place and archiving for email, IM and audio help avoid millions in financial fines and sanctions from premature loss of regulated or discoverable data;
• Comprehensive legal-hold solution reduces costs with manual search, storage, collection, production and management of content subject to legal hold requirements; and
• Audio analysis, review, redaction and production eliminates costs and reduces audio review volume by more than 95%.
  

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Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement and was recently ranked by IDC as a clear market share leader in enterprise search. Autonomy’s technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data. Find out why so many rely on Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing to maximize value and productivity from their corporate information assets. Visit us at www.autonomy.com.