Overview of IBM StoredIQ

IBM® StoredIQ® provides scalable analysis and governance of unstructured data in-place across disparate and distributed email, file shares, desktops, and collaboration sites. Its products enable companies to discover, analyze, and act on data for eDiscovery; records retention and disposition; compliance; and storage optimization initiatives.

Powerful solutions for managing unstructured data in-place
IBM StoredIQ addresses the problems that challenge records management, electronic discovery, compliance, storage optimization, and data migration initiatives. By providing an in-depth assessment of unstructured data where it is, IBM StoredIQ gives organizations visibility into data to make more informed business and legal decisions.
IBM StoredIQ delivers:
  • In-place data management that allows an organization to discover, recognize, and act on unstructured data without moving it to a repository or specialty application.
  • A powerful search function that accelerates the understanding of large amounts of unstructured content.
  • Simplified analysis of large amounts of corporate data to provide detailed analysis faster and limit the impact on user productivity by analyzing and managing data in-place.
  • Intelligence that supports many different policy actions such as copy, delete, move, copy to retention, or export.
An organized, systemic, and defensible approach to eDiscovery
IBM StoredIQ provides insight into enterprise data to help ease the costs and efforts that are involved in electronic discovery (eDiscovery) response. IBM StoredIQ helps decrease the volume of unstructured data by targeting only the most relevant information to a particular case and providing forensically sound and defensible collections.
IBM StoredIQ delivers:
  • Faster access to relevant information before collection, giving legal and IT teams the data that is needed to make more informed legal decisions.
  • A powerful search function that accelerates the understanding of large amounts of unstructured content and encourages organizational alignment that can lead to reduced legal risks and costs.
  • Simplified analysis of large amounts of corporate electronically stored information (ESI), providing faster detailed analysis, and limiting the impact on user productivity.
  • Intelligence that allows companies to respond more quickly to litigation with the most relevant data.
Information governance to automate policy and compliance across unstructured data
IBM StoredIQ helps organizations identify, classify, and manage enterprise information according to business value to reduce risk and cost. Corporations can gain a deeper and holistic understanding of their unstructured data to address business and regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, data retention and respond to audit requests.
IBM StoredIQ provides the following features and solutions:
  • A powerful data assessment solution for discovering, recognizing, and acting on unstructured data without first moving it to a repository.
  • Advanced search capabilities that are tailored to help legal, records, compliance, and IT staff discover data in accordance with corporate and regulatory policy.
  • Detailed data analysis to simplify the analysis of large amounts of corporate data.
  • In-place data management capabilities to remediate regulatory and corporate policy violations.
Flexible solution for identifying and collecting data from remote devices
IBM StoredIQ Desktop Data Collector enables organizations to apply corporate governance policies to user desktops and notebooks. Users can identify and collect corporate records or custodian data for legal matters.
Desktop Data Collector delivers:
  • A powerful, flexible solution for identifying and collecting data for investigations, litigation matters, or records retention.
  • A simplified collection of information on remote desktops and notebooks.
  • Centralized management to minimize IT burden and improve efficiency.
  • Intelligent desktop data collection for identifying corporate records or custodian data and collecting them to a central repository.
Bridging structured and unstructured content for enterprise information governance
A unified governance architecture is the key to governing all enterprise content, be it structured or unstructured, on premises or in the cloud, thus helping organizations manage the findability, usability, and integrity of their data.

Integrating IBM StoredIQ with a governance catalog bridges structured and unstructured content to enable enterprise information governance.