Autonomy Private Cloud Passes 50PB

Autonomy Corp., an HP company, announced that its private cloud has passed a new data processing milestone, extending its lead as the largest private cloud.

The private cloud now manages more than 50 petabytes of web content, video, email and multimedia data on 6,500 servers in 14 data centers around the world. Fifty petabytes is equal to 665 years of HD-TV video, or 1 billion four-drawer file cabinets filled with text.

The continued growth of this private cloud is the result of a unique approach to cloud computing. Powered by Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), the private cloud automatically recognizes concepts and patterns in the billions of structured and unstructured data files it ingests and indexes every day. Autonomy IDOL provides a common platform for a range of cloud-based Autonomy solutions, spanning marketing and revenue optimization, archiving, data protection, eDiscovery, and information governance.

The private cloud uses the HP Converged Cloud to deliver a world-class experience for its customers. A testament to the value of the HP Converged Cloud, Autonomy relies on HP’s market portfolio to deliver a scalable and hybrid IT environment for its customers.

"Today, the world’s leading companies in consumer retail, financial services, legal, pharmaceuticals, travel and entertainment and other industries trust their data and mission-critical solutions to the Autonomy cloud," said Mike Lynch, EVP, Information Management, HP. "These organizations recognize that Autonomy’s understanding of data and market-leading solutions combined with HP’s Converged Infrastructure give them an unmatched foundation from which to launch customer engagement, legal, regulatory and compliance initiatives."

Autonomy provides a range of cloud-based solutions that leverage IDOL’s ability to understand in real time the ideas expressed in the array of Human Information, the massive volumes of unstructured data inside and outside an organization.

• Archiving – the Autonomy Consolidated Archive archives data in the cloud and via appliances, and provides an intelligent governance layer from which businesses can drive their compliance, eDiscovery and records management initiatives directly from archived data. Based on IDOL, the Autonomy Consolidated Archive forms an foundation for managing an organization’s overall information governance strategy, and provides efficiency, proactive compliance and reduced risk.
• Data protection – Autonomy Data Protection protects and manages any data, regardless of location or device, in an efficient manner and is capable of scaling as an organization’s infrastructure and mobile workforce evolves.
• eDiscovery – Autonomy eDiscovery provides one solution for simplified and unified eDiscovery. As one integrated solution covering early case assessment, processing, review and production capabilities, eDiscovery enables corporate legal teams and law firms to work more collaboratively and eliminates risky handoffs of data between systems.
• Revenue optimization – Autonomy’s revenue optimization solutions enable businesses to increase top-line revenue by optimizing all facets of the revenue generation machine, including ad placements and keyword buys, pricing, campaigns, and offers. Global brands in every industry use Autonomy Optimost to automatically identify and deliver in real-time the optimal mix of content, pricing, and offers, resulting in measurable revenue uplift.
• Multichannel customer engagement – Autonomy Explore consolidates all customer interactions to identify patterns and sentiment among customers. Explore delivers insight across all channels, including web, mobile, social media, email, call center and storefront. Marketers leverage this understanding to develop actionable and real-time insights to create engaging customer experiences and resolve problems across each of their channels.
• Social media and broadcast analytics – Autonomy NewSocial 24×7 provides real-time media monitoring and analytics capabilities for print, online, blogs, social media, and broadcast news. Organizations can gain a conceptual understanding of sentiment and commentary from thousands of information sources around particular concepts and ideas. Media monitoring and analytics solutions are suited for dynamic and diverse media landscape, and are applicable to a range of industries and use cases, ranging from election campaign monitoring to brand and product launch monitoring.

Autonomy’s private cloud is hosted in high-security data centers. The data centers are under 24/7 surveillance, and each one undergoes annual Statement of Accounting Standard No. 70 (SAS 70) audits. Two synchronized, geographically separated systems provide data and system redundancy and parallel processing of all tasks. The design addresses all aspects of multi-tenancy, such as multiple firewalls and virus protection, and is qualified to support the performance and volume requirements that are necessary for processing the rapidly expanding number of corporate formats and unified communications – including all forms of text, audio and video.