IBM Spectrum Discover V2.0 Metadata Management Software

IBM Spectrum Discover V2.0 metadata management software delivers visibility and classification to petabyte-scale file and object storage with support for IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Discover is metadata management software that delivers data insight for petabyte-scale, unstructured storage. It easily connects to IBM Cloud Object Storage and Spectrum Scale to rapidly ingest, consolidate, and index metadata for billions of files and objects, providing a rich layer of metadata on top of these storage sources.

This metadata enables data scientists, storage administrators, and data stewards to efficiently manage, classify, and gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data. The insights gained accelerate large-scale analytics, improve storage economics, and help with governance to create competitive advantage, speed critical research, and mitigate risk.

IBM Spectrum Discover highlights include:

Event-notifications and policy-based workflows to automate metadata ingestion and metadata indexing at a petabyte scale
Fine-grained views of storage consumption based on a wide range of system and custom metadata
Fast, efficient search through petabytes of data, resulting in relevant results for large-scale analytics
Ability to quickly differentiate mission-critical business data from data that can either be deleted or moved to a cheaper, colder tier
Policy-based custom tagging that enables organizations to classify and categorize data, and align this data with the needs of the business
A software developers kit (SDK) to build action agents that extract metadata from file headers and content, automate data movement, and provide integration to open source software, such as Apache Spark, Apache Tika, PyTorch, Caffe and TensorFlow, to facilitate data identification and speed large-scale data processing

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