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    Scentric Destiny Provides Universal Data Classification

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    Brian Fonseca
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    April 19, 2006
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      New company Scentric emerged from stealth mode on April 19 to make its official debut and launch its data classification technology, Scentric Destiny.

      Scentric Destiny emphasizes universal data classification, or the ability to manage and appropriately classify all data types within large distributed enterprise environments.

      Commercially available on April 24, the Scentric Destiny software is designed to help customers solve explosive data growth, proactively manage information for U.S. regulatory compliance, and augment business processes by implementing a central policy across three primary focus areas: e-discovery, intelligent archiving and improved infrastructure optimization.

      /zimages/4/28571.gifKazeon finds a market niche by classifying unstructured data. Click here to read more.

      Scentric Destiny is able to discover and provide context for hundreds of file types kept on NAS (network-attached storage) devices and file servers, as well as structured, semistructured and unstructured data found in e-mail, databases, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and even MP3 files, said Larry Cormier, senior vice president of marketing for Scentric, in Alpharetta, Ga.

      Cormier said future releases of Scentric Destiny technology will delve deeper into the analysis of data, to gather not just the age and content of information, but to understand usage patterns and cull the value of data—a stepping stone, he says, to achieving ILM (information lifecycle management).

      /zimages/4/84833.gifZiff Davis Media eSeminars invite: Join experts April 20 at 1 p.m. ET to find out the value of business process management to your business and IT staff.

      Another area future versions of the software will address is real-time classification. Currently the product, and competitors data classification offerings, such as appliances from Kazeon Systems and StoredIQ, are constructed as an on-demand type of process customers run.

      However, Cormier said customers have expressed a desire to classify data as it is created within a document—for instance, while an e-mail is being written or a spreadsheet is being organized.

      Operating systems that support Scentric Destiny include Microsoft Windows 2003 servers and Windows file systems, in addition to NAS and other storage devices, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server database.

      Additional support for archiving-specific devices such as EMCs Centerra and Hewlett-Packards RISS (Reference Information Storage System) will be available as part of an interim product release arriving later in the summer of 2006, Cormier said.

      Funding for Scentric is being provided by H.I.G. Ventures, Valhalla Partners, Imlay Investments and ATDC (Advanced Technology Development Center). Funding for the company at the time of its inception in August 2004 was approximately $5.6 million. The data classification software company recently received an expansion of its Series A funding round to $10.4 million from its investors.

      /zimages/4/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis on enterprise and small business storage hardware and software.

      Brian Fonseca
      Brian Fonseca is a senior writer at eWEEK who covers database, data management and storage management software, as well as storage hardware. He works out of eWEEK's Woburn, Mass., office. Prior to joining eWEEK, Brian spent four years at InfoWorld as the publication's security reporter. He also covered services, and systems management. Before becoming an IT journalist, Brian worked as a beat reporter for The Herald News in Fall River, Mass., and cut his teeth in the news business as a sports and news producer for Channel 12-WPRI/Fox 64-WNAC in Providence, RI. Brian holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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