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Komprise has added self-service features for line-of-business (LOB) IT, analytics, and research teams to its unstructured data management software, lessening the burden on admins by giving users controlled read-only access to their individual data estates.

The Komprise Intelligent Data Management (IDM) product helps users manage and monitor unstructured data estates across their on-premises and public cloud environments and store their data more effectively. That means moving little-accessed data to cheaper storage, migrating data to the public clouds if needed and understanding which users access what data and that datas locations.

Todd Dorsey, a DCIG data storage analyst, said: User self-service is a growing trend to offload administrative tasks from central IT and give end users the ability to get the data and functionality they need faster. By putting more control in the hands of departmental teams and data owners, Komprise is helping increase value from unstructured data in the enterprise.

This is a tool for admin staff to give them the equivalent of night vision in a previously dark data environment and organize it so that access and storage costs are optimised. Komprise IDM is an example of a hierarchical storage management (HSM) or information lifecycle management (ILM) product.

At present, if central IT wanted to find out in detail what files and object data a user department needed on various storage tiers, tier-level retention and data movement policies, theyd have to ask the department which takes time and occupies both IT admin and user department resource.

Now, with the new software, central IT can authorize departmental end users to access IDM to look at and into their own data and its usage. These users are given a Deep Analytics profile, but only with read access. They can then monitor usage metrics, data trends, tag and search data and identify datasets for analytics, tiering and deletion, which only IT admins could do up until now.

This capability builds uponKomprises Smart Data Workflows, which enabled IT teams to automate the tagging and discovery of relevant file and object data across hybrid data storage silos and moving the right data to cloud services.

Potential applications for this include:

This addition of user-level DIY facilities should help to enable finer-grained unstructured data management and faster response by both IT admins and user groups to changing situations.

The autumn release of Komprises IDM software also features:

Komprise COO Krishna Subramanian claimed that the SMB protocol changes can accelerate data movements significantly: It is orders of magnitude around the 27 times mark that we benchmark; we will get that much. And its often much more than that.

The new capabilities are spreading Komprises use with its customers: We are seeing the adoption of our product really kind of scale out. Every day were getting new new use cases from all these departments, like some of them wanted to use it to run genomics, analysis, the cloud and things like that.

She said Komprises customer count was approaching 500. More of these customers are using AWS than Azure, with GCP usage trailing the older two public clouds.

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