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posted on 07 April 2008 11:57

ORLANDO, FLA. – April 7, 2008 – Attune Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class file management solutions, today announced the Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager (MIAM), delivering an eDiscovery repository and file archival management through the company’s latest file virtualization technology.

MIAM allows organizations to be prepared in litigation situations, when the need for electronic evidence may require an organization to search for important information in a timely and cost-effective manner.

The Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager enables customers to build large-scale file archives based on industry-standard storage systems. Single-instance file storage avoids storing duplicate files, thus significantly decreasing the footprint of the archive Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager is based on Attune’s leading file virtualization technology, allowing storage administrators, legal and compliance teams to view the archive via different views, such as by server, date or file owner.

“The Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager will be a great solution for customers, allowing them to easily take advantage of file-based virtualization in existing Windows environments,” said Kevin Haynes, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and former technology security manager at City of Jacksonville. “There is no additional load on the network. Searches are performed on the Maestro archive, so there is no need to access back-end storage, avoiding an extra load on the production storage or network. Users and network administrators will be able to access virtual folders containing archives, and the provided calendar or server views will help users easily locate what they need, with complete integration with the native Windows security model.”

“This centralized data capture and archiving product from Attune is designed to access, capture, and consolidate CIFS file data and snapshots across an organization,” said Jeff Boles, technology analyst with Taneja Group. “MIAM can easily reduce backup complexity and licensing cost by offloading and managing data protection for all unstructured data across the enterprise, act as a master D2D repository, provide a master repository against which to do non-intrusive data classification, and support eDiscovery applications. Attune Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager product looks compelling for data archiving, as well as enhancing online data protection and retention without complex VTL and distributed backup technologies.”

The Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager complements existing archive and storage solutions, because it is hardware-agnostic. Customers can create the archive based on the storage of their choosing. Customers can even choose to utilize a block-level deduplication offering from companies such as Data Domain to further reduce the storage footprint at a block level in conjunction with MIAM’s file-level deduplication.

Searches based on point-in-time views of the file system can be performed on traditional file-level metadata attributes such as owner, size, last access, last modify, size, and location within the file system, but also on the rights or capabilities of an individual at various points-in-time along a timeline of the file system’s history, delivering invaluable insights for the IT, legal and compliance teams within an organization. System administrators can now create an enterprise-wide view of the Windows file system over various points in time and then export it, empowering users to easily find their required files.

“With this new addition to our product line, we prove once more that our file virtualization technology can help customers protect their mission-critical data while accessing that information in an easy and cost-effective way, and reducing their backup windows,” said Jill Kyte, Attune’s vice president of marketing and business development.” In today’s environments, which are witnessing an explosive growth of unstructured data on top of the increased data retention, legal and compliance requirements, Attune’s Maestro Intelligent Archive Manager provides fast time-to-information without affecting the performance of the primary storage and network.”

MIAM can be easily deployed and does not require any changes to the current data protection solutions in the customer’s environment, while being able to use existing storage resources to create the MIAM archive repository. Building the MIAM archive can be done through several ingest options: by walking the file system, by ingesting tapes from a tape library, or by ingesting snapshots from existing CIFS devices, including NetApp filers and Windows-based NAS.

About Attune Systems

Attune Systems solutions reduce file management complexity for enterprise, government, and education storage environments while slashing operating costs and increasing scalability. The company’s flagship product, the Maestro File Manager, is a file virtualization appliance that helps IT administrators discover, analyze, manage, and optimize their existing, heterogeneous file storage resources without impacting end users. File virtualization is the low-risk, high-impact first step towards implementing an effective File Area Network (FAN).  Attune’s investors include Alloy Ventures, GF Private Equity Group, LLC, Quicksilver Ventures, Rock Creek Capital, RWI Ventures, Shea Ventures, and Shoreline Venture Management. For more information, please call 877-GO-ATTUNE (877-462-8886) or visit the company’s website at www.attunesystems.com.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}