A new File Analysis and Management product from US firm ZL Technologies promises to reign in corporate file share environments by joining advanced analytics capabilities with its governance architecture.

The offering is built on the governance foundation of the company’s Unified Archive (ZL UA) software and can quickly and accurately assess massive corporate file share environments, as well as directly ingest and assign policy-based control to selected items.

Features include:

• ZL can analyse files and directly set policies on desired content for permanent management, without having to import, export, or transfer content to a separate platform. Rather than simply reporting on the file environment and its contents, ZL’s file analysis can actively ingest and govern data without further supporting architecture.
• ZL’s file analysis capabilities can dig deep below the surface to locate at-risk content such as phone numbers, PII, PCI, and PHI as well as other sensitive patterns within the body of documents, which metadata analysis alone cannot detect.
• Most analysis tools conduct only a basic assessment of file metadata, yielding file size, age, author, location, and other descriptive qualities. Alternately, tools that offer full-text indexing and analysis may be prohibitively slow or expensive. ZL enables snap analysis of selected content at a glance, allowing the organization to quickly decide where to direct additional efforts before conducting a full-scale content analysis.

 “Conducting a single file analysis and cleanup project is like cleaning your house once; eventually, you’ll just need to clean it again,” said Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies.

“For long-term sustainability, file analysis needs to be embedded within information governance architecture, and ZL File Analysis and Management does exactly that.”

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