IBM Storage Discover

IBM Storage Discover in the IBM Storage portfolio is data catalog and metadata management software that provides insight into exabyte-scale unstructured data storage.

Easily identify, prepare and optimize file and object data to simplify AI organization and achieve faster business results. Leverage IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog and IBM Cloud Pak® for Data with a simple one-click integration for additional value and insights. Create a successful AI infrastructure with powerful ingest, data mapping, visualization and data activation capabilities.

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Benefits

Save time

Automate cataloging of unstructured data by capturing metadata as it is created. Support multiple file and object storage systems from IBM and other vendors.

Increase productivity

Enable deeper insight by combining system metadata with custom tags. Increase productivity for anyone looking for insights into large data repositories.

Integrate easily

Leverage Action Agent API, custom tags and policy-based workflows for content inspection. Activate data in AI, machine learning and analytics workflows.

Features

Integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Easily integrate metadata, then leverage file and object data using IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM AI solutions.

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Optimize data with more granularity

Use a policy engine to help optimize data capacity and data location based on defined data policies.

Heterogeneous file and object storage

Support both IBM and non-IBM storage systems on-premises and in the cloud.

Policy-based metadata tagging

Use Action Agent API to automatically capture metadata and create custom metadata from search results.

Dashboard and customizable reporting

See at-a-glance, detailed, customizable views of the user environment with role-based access controls.

Continuous metadata ingestion

Use with IBM Cloud® Object Storage, IBM Storage Scale or Red Hat® Ceph storage for continuous metadata ingestion.

Rapid discovery of data assets

Enable fast search to quickly find subsets of indexed records based on role-based access.

Content-based tagging and search

Apply custom metadata tags based on user-definable keywords and quickly find data with those tags.

Security-rich, extensible architecture

Ensure only authorized users can access data, integrate with third-party software, automate workflows.

Automatically manage sensitive data

Automatically identify and classify data with sensitive or personally identifiable information.

Community-supported extensions catalog

Discover, install and manage third-party extensions from a community-supported ecosystem.