HPE has announced the launch of the HPE Verity suite, a modular set of applications and services to help businesses manage, govern and extract actionable insights from enterprise information. The first module to be released is Verity Information Archiving, designed to help organisations manage and control data in accordance with regulatory, legal and operational needs.

HPE says Verity is unlike alternative approaches that attempt to combine traditionally disparate components of the information management and governance product spectrum, which generally result in multiple data indexes and user experiences that lead to a high level of complexity, manual processes and inefficiency.

HPE Verity's "Single Source of Truth" solution is purpose-built to serve the full spectrum of information management and governance needs with a unified index and user experience. With a common data store and an ability to simply expose new functionality as needed, IT, compliance, legal and risk management professionals will attain an unprecedented level of visibility and control over enterprise information.

"The market is cluttered with disparate solutions that manage business information, but rarely do these technologies work seamlessly with one another," said David Jones, senior vice president and general manager, Information Management & Governance, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

"By delivering a single source of truth -- aligning directly to the Verity name -- we're providing customers with a single-index solution that will help them manage and extract value from a wide array of content, and will help position them to make more informed business decisions and compete at global scale."
While the use of SaaS-based technologies for information management and governance has been widely adopted in the US, it has not seen the same level of acceptance worldwide, despite a high level of demand. The historical reason has been concern over data sovereignty - organisations generally do not want to (and are often statutorily not to) have data leave their borders to reside in a data centre in a different country. 

HPE Verity will resolve this concern with an open approach to deployment and hosting. Organisations can use HPE Verity to capture, manage, understand and protect information that can be hosted on a variety of global public and private cloud infrastructures including Amazon Web Services and HPE Helion/OpenStack. In addition, partners and managed service providers (MSPs) will be able to host the Verity solution in their in-country data centres. 

"The global demand for a cloud-based archiving solution is at an all-time high, but historically many have been unable to meet demand due to the challenges of addressing data sovereignty sensitivities in many countries worldwide," said Antoine Berthier of Optrium, a European-based specialist in electronic archiving, content management, governance and security of office data. "By taking an open approach to leverage a variety of economical private or public cloud infrastructures including OpenStack and Amazon Web Services, allowing both HPE and key partners to deliver this solution globally with virtually no geographical limitations, Verity Information Archiving will deliver cloud-based information governance to the rest of the world."

A free trial of HPE Verity Information Archiving is available. Contact VerityTrial@hpe.com for more information. To learn more about HPE Verity, click here.