Veritas Data Insight now includes SaaS consumption option, plus performance enhancements

Veritas Technologies, the secure multicloud data management provider, has released Veritas Data Insight, which allows organisations to assess and mitigate unstructured and sensitive data compliance and cyber resilience risks, as software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Dark data, which is data with unknown value, makes up roughly 52% of the average organisation’s unstructured data estate. In addition to containing redundant, obsolete and trivial (ROT) data that costs organisations millions of dollars in unnecessary storage, such data may also contain sensitive information posing significant regulatory compliance and cyber resilience risks, Veritas Technologies explained.

Veritas Data Insight offers in-depth data visibility, context and analysis across multicloud infrastructures to help resolve the cost, compliance and security risks associated with unstructured, dark and sensitive data. It also plays a key role in helping organisations respond to cyberthreats such as ransomware by highlighting security weaknesses before an attack, providing early warning during an attack and ensuring decision makers are armed with important insights about the data that may have been compromised after an attack.

Organisations can now consume Veritas Data Insight from the cloud as a multitenant, Veritas-managed SaaS application. This option enables simplified onboarding; automatic updates, including new content sources; and greater scalability.

Geoffrey Coley, Regional CTO for Asia Pacific region at Veritas, said at the time of the launch: “Today, the vast amount of data surging from on-premises environments, cloud applications and end-user devices has impeded the ability of organisations to fully understand their data. Most organisations have massive data estate that they know nothing about. These often include sensitive data that are not properly classified and managed, valuable data they are not using to extract insights and ROT data that are no longer needed. Data Insight in the cloud helps resolve the challenges of unstructured, dark and sensitive data without adding more complexity to an organisation’s technology stack.”

Additional enhancements in the latest release of Veritas Data Insight—both on-premises and in the cloud—are designed to increase the product’s performance:

– Data indexing now requires up to 50% less disk space.

– Expedited data classification better focuses on content that is relevant.

– Improved indexing and targeted classification results in more comprehensive compliance.

Juan Orlandini, CTO, North America at Insight Enterprises, a global systems integrator said: “Veritas Data Insight is key to helping our clients gain critical knowledge about their data to identify security threats, address privacy compliance and enable lifecycle management. With SaaS consumption, more efficient indexing and faster classification, it becomes even more compelling.”

Veritas Data Insight is available as part of all three Veritas data compliance and governance service offerings—Information Governance, eDiscovery and Surveillance. It can also be paired with Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale and Veritas Alta Recovery Vault.