Veritas has announced enhancements to the company’s flagship offering, Veritas Information Map, with new data connectors for 23 new data sources for both on-premises and cloud-based data storage repositories.

Information Map provides a real-time picture and interactive view of an organisation's data assets. This broad visibility enables users to make better decisions about what data to retain, migrate or delete and can also help ensure compliance with data regulations around the world, such as HIPAA and the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The new connectors will be generally available in the coming quarters, at no additional cost and include Microsoft Azure Storage, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Oracle Database, Box and others.

Additional product integrations will also be available with Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas Enterprise Vault and Veritas Access, providing greater visibility into data, regardless of where it resides.

Information Map is available as a stand-alone purchase or as part of the Veritas 360 Data Management Suite.

To deploy the new connectors, customers will be able to leverage Information Map’s new Connection Center

a central interface for managing all data store connectors that also includes a sharable, plug-and-play framework to accelerate development and delivery of these and future connectors, from Veritas and our worldwide technology partners.

Veritas has also announced a new deduplication technology, Veritas NetBackup CloudCatalyst, will be included with the launch of NetBackup 8.1. With Cloud Catalyst, backups can be executed more quickly and extra cost savings can be realised when migrating data to hybrid, private or public clouds.