EMC has added two new products to its SourceOne product line that designed to assist organisations seeking to manage growth, retention and e-discovery of unstructured content, i.e. documents, audio and video files that reside on disparate systems.

EMC SourceOne File Intelligence is designed to put the the business value of content at the centre of policies that are developed to align information to its value and mitigate the risks associated with unknown or unmanaged information.

The company claims that unlike traditional file reporting tools, SourceOne File Intelligence allows organisations to take appropriate actions which include deleting inappropriate content such as obscene and explicit images, moving information to a secure repository like EMC Documentum or utilising the SourceOne archive and/or tiered storage for long-term archiving.

SourceOne File Intelligence is not a static tool and can be set up to run regular scans of content in file servers using basic file attributes or conduct a more complex analysis based on the file content. By helping customers understand where unmanaged content resides, what resources it consumes and how much is redundant, SourceOne File Intelligence promises to lower costs, reduce risks and enhance operational performance.

A new archiving module for SourceOne, EMC SourceOne for File Systems allows for the policy-based archival of inactive or duplicate content stored on file systems and enforces consistent retention and disposition policies over high volumes of unstructured content to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

By archiving file system and other unstructured content into a centralised, deduplicated and indexed archive, a single search can retrieve all relevant content for quick response to an investigation or e-discovery request.

Coupled with SourceOne File Intelligence, organisations can apply intelligent policies to differentiate between irrelevant and business-critical content that should be archived in a central SourceOne archive.

“With SourceOne File Intelligence and SourceOne for File Systems, EMC is bringing intelligence and proactive management to address the growing volumes of unstructured content so that customers can further execute on their information governance strategies. By proactively managing and taking control of both structured and unstructured content across the enterprise EMC SourceOne can reduce IT costs, manage risks and enable litigation readiness.” said Jeff Bettencourt, Vice President and General Manager of Information Governance, Information Intelligence Group, a division of EMC

SourceOne File Intelligence is generally available today. SourceOne for File Systems is currently in controlled release and will be generally available in the third quarter of 2010.