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November 29, 2023 – Boston, MA – Leading data management and risk mitigation provider Congruity360 risk-proofs enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) through the application of “smart data,” or data that has been strategically classified and curated to remove risky content prior to being used to train AI models. The use of smart data encourages enterprises to be specific, selective, and cautious when selecting data with which to train enterprise AI tools. Enterprises taking the “smart data” approach reduce their data footprint by an average of 30%, with associated storage savings of 50%.

Per Gartner analyst Don Scheibenreif, only 4% of CIOs say their data is AI ready. As businesses start folding AI tools into their technology stacks, it is imperative that caution is exercised when choosing which documents to use for AI training purposes. AI tools are only as powerful and accurate as the data used to train them; using outdated, inaccurate, irrelevant, or restricted information to train an AI tool results in unreliable and potentially dangerous outputs. Furthermore, there are generally no built-in protections to guard against how most AI tools will utilize the data with which it has been trained. Any data protection must take place prior to training the tool. Given the substantial inherent risk, federal regulations dictating protection of private data used with AI, such as the EU’s AI Act and the US’s AI Bill of Rights, are rendering AI data governance mandatory.

Data classification is the key to achieving both a smart data strategy and compliant AI data governance. Gaining a clear understanding of what aged, duplicate, trivial, and risk data exists within a given environment and being able to properly manage that data, via deletion, migration, or opting to not input it into AI tools, is only possible by first classifying that data. Beyond risk mitigation, data classification also lends itself to data storage cost savings through defensible remediation. Enterprises with robust, ongoing data classification practices, on average, eliminate 10% orphan data risk, eliminate copy data growth due to backup by 20%, and can push 20% more infrequently used data to object storage. Once AI regulations are fully in place, active data classification will also play a significant role in maintaining compliance and avoiding costly financial and reputational penalties.

“Early public and private AI solutions have yielded significant financial rewards for early adopters,” said Brian Davidson, Congruity360 Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner. “As the impact of AI projects scale, it is essential that the fuel of AI, aka data, is correctly classified and de-risked. PII and private corporate data must be classified out of AI training models. Congruity360 is uniquely positioned to offer AI a simple, fast, and automated classification engine. Do not ruin the rewards of AI by unknowingly feeding it risk and obsolete data.”

Congruity360’s Enterprise Insights solution uses data classification to enable enterprises to glean insights quickly and accurately on data stores, highlighting key risk areas and opportunities to eliminate unnecessary files. Post classification, it’s easy to use only current, accurate, and risk-free files – smart data – to train AI software. “Smart data” delivers improved AI accuracy, lower AI data costs, and unparalled AI data risk mitigation. Enterprise Insights is your smart data answer to unstructured AI data platforms.

Enterprise Insights | Approach to Risk-Proof AI Adoption:

  • Identify – Securely analyze PBs of unstructured data across on-premises (NAS & object) and in the cloud (files/objects & SaaS) environments. Eliminate slow and unstable file crawling tools and replace with enterprise class, API-enabled scans.
  • Classify – Quickly identify key client data attributes for cost savings, risk mitigation, and AI relevance with simple to consume dashboards and drill-down capabilities.
  • Review – Confidently classify your data and automate the delivery of smart data to your AI engines.
  • Remediate – Seamlessly take-action (migrate and tier) on classified data to ensure it’s properly protected, optimally stored, and powering smart AI outcomes.

Congruity360 continues to problem-solve for AI and data governance challenges through innovations to the Classify360 Platform, delivering revolutionary data governance and classification, at scale, to the enterprise world.

ABOUT CONGRUITY360

Congruity360 delivers the only data management solution built on a foundation of classification, by expert data storage engineers alongside expert data privacy consultants. The Classify360 Platform is easy to implement, requires no outside consultants, and quickly analyzes your data at the petabyte scale in days, not weeks or months.

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The industry’s first high-performance data lifecycle management solution at exabyte scale

BOSTON, September 26, 2023 – Congruity360, a leading unstructured data management and risk mitigation provider, announces the addition of data mobility in Enterprise Insights.

As unstructured data grows at the annual rate of 55% to 65% and accounts for more than 80% of all enterprise data, businesses must find a way to identify, classify and move data intelligently and automatically during its lifecycle. As enterprises grow, their valuable data must mature with their business. This may require a journey to the cloud, SLA changes which optimize storage costs, classification to mitigate risk, and moving the right data to additional key AI platform initiatives.

A simple, scalable, high-performance data classification engine, Enterprise Insights delivers next-generation data lifecycle management for storage optimization, security and risk optimization, and IT business optimization.

Enterprise Insights Approach to Successful Data Optimization:

  • Identify – Securely analyze PBs of unstructured data across on premises (NAS & object) and cloud (files/objects & SaaS) sources by harnessing the power of the platform’s rapid insights and auto-discover technologies, which can reduce data identification times by 1,000%.
  • Classify – Quickly identify key client data attributes for cost savings, risk mitigation, and business impact with simple to consume dashboards and drill down capabilities.
  • Review – Confidently create and take actions by leveraging the comprehensive search engine to quickly find and preview data for movement without ever leaving the platform.
  • Remediate – Seamlessly take action (migrate and tier) on classified data to ensure it’s properly protected, optimally stored, and most effectively serving the business.

Enterprise Insights offers three use case-driven insight analysis modules:

  • Storage and Migration Optimization – Insights into over 35 file data attributes including systems’ aged, stale, obsolete, redundant, trivial, and types of systems files.
  • Business Optimization – Insight into and classification by business units’ or cost centers’ aged, stale, obsolete, redundant, trivial, and types of files.
  • Data Security and Risk Optimization – Insights into files containing PII and SPII, financial, legal, security, and risk data, as well as open shares and other network & storage security vulnerabilities.

By leveraging Enterprise Insights, clients can classify data for simple and secure migration both on premise and in the cloud. Equally important is Insights data tiering capabilities, enabling users to match data storage costs to data usage.

Powered by the Classify360 Platform, Enterprise Insights’ secure hybrid approach to data analysis scales capabilities to exabyte levels at unmatched speed. Enterprise Insights is the industry’s most powerful weapon to tackle the costs, time, and complexity of cloud migration projects, backup modernization, storage tiering, hardware refresh, and security posture management. By providing users with dashboards highlighting their existing storage costs and risks, Enterprise Insights frees clients from hidden, legacy, CapEx and OpEx expenditures, performance, and scalability bottlenecks while discovering and acting on sensitive and risk data.

“Unstructured data insanity is treating all data equally with zero insights into its business impact,” said Brian Davidson, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Congruity360. “Enterprise Insights is the first step in implementing optimized data lifecycle management. With historically high data growth and new business uses for unstructured data, it is essential to attack the costs and risks inherent in unmanaged data. Our customers have realized 7-10x returns on their data lifecycle management implementations while reducing risk in an auditable compliance framework. As AI continues to gain steam, don’t overpay by moving useless data to your expensive AI platforms.”

The Classify360 Platform is comprehensive, simple to implement, scale, and operate. Businesses leverage the Classify360 Platform for unstructured data discovery, classification, business workflows, remediation actions, and insightful reporting. Congruity360 continues to tackle additional data governance challenges through innovations to the Classify360 Platform to continue delivering revolutionary data governance and classification, at scale, to the enterprise world.

ABOUT CONGRUITY360

Congruity360 delivers the only data life cycle management solution built on a foundation of classification, by expert data storage engineers alongside expert data privacy consultants. The Classify360 Platform is easy to implement, requires no outside consultants, and quickly analyzes your data at the petabyte scale in days, not weeks or months.

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BOSTON, June 27, 2023 – Congruity360, the leading data management and data governance provider, has completed a round of growth capital funding with Boston-based capital firms Schooner Capital and G20 Ventures. Both firms seek out companies that challenge the status quo and are excited to join Congruity360’s Board of Directors. Congruity360 fits the “disruptor” mold as the only data management and data governance platform built on a foundation of data classification, offering complete unstructured data analysis, classification, and remediation within one end-to-end platform.

The investment supports Congruity360’s launch of new products built to simplify the complex process of continuous unstructured data management. The new offerings are powered by the Classify360 Platform, which delivers content-level analysis across petabytes of unstructured data in addition to business-driven remediation. The new offerings provide an introduction to the Classify360 Platform, allowing companies to quickly gain actionable insights into their data by pinpointing risk, redundant, and aged data.

  • Instant Insights | Insights into a single data source which requires no investment or commitment and can be leveraged to expose risk mitigation opportunities, help inform remediation strategy, and gain momentum in your data journey.
  • Enterprise Insights | Insights across the entire unstructured data estate, on-premises and cloud sources, which can be leveraged to eliminate unnecessary data storage spend, unlock cloud migrations with intelligence, and reduce required investment on adjacent data security technologies.
  • Cloud Insights |Insights into unstructured cloud data sources which can be leveraged to optimize cloud utilization, increase cloud adoption via intelligence, and help inform data remediation strategy.

A significant differentiator between the Classify360 Platform and competitors’ platforms is ease of use. No outside consultants, lengthy implementations, or add-on tools are required to gain never-before-seen insight at petabyte scale. The time to value is virtually instantaneous. Business leaders can make quick, informed decisions using the information gleaned from the Classify360 Platform, bringing them the most value in the shortest timeline.

“Congruity360’s extensive experience with storage infrastructure combined with data privacy expertise has resulted in an innovative, powerful platform that’s reinvented the way businesses govern their data,” said Orhan Gazelle, Principal at Schooner Capital. “We haven’t seen other platforms that independently offer the depth of file analysis, accuracy of classification, and defensibility of governance that the Classify360 Platform brings to the table.”

“The volume of unstructured data is exploding across enterprises, driving significant cost and risk to organizations of all sizes.  We ran Congruity360’s Instant Insights against our data and within an hour had a clear view of our exposure with a simple path to remediation. Their product can pay for itself in-year through cost savings, but the bigger payoff may be the reduction in risk afforded by their efficient data governance capabilities,” said Bill Wiberg, Co-founder & Partner at G20 Ventures.

“We have listened to our customers and designed a comprehensive platform with both IT and ‘the business’ in mind to centralize decision making, eliminate point solutions, and reduce security vulnerabilities created by blind spots within your IT estate,” said Brian Davidson, CEO of Congruity360. “Scale and speed are a necessity to handle the complexity of massive data growth and the ever-changing compliance landscape. An end-to-end data-management platform is the only way to execute against the demands of audits, Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), cloud-first mandates, and accelerated migration timelines.”

Unlike other providers of unstructured data migration and information governance tools, the Classify360 Platform is comprehensive, simple to implement, scale, and operate. Businesses leverage the Classify360 Platform for unstructured data discovery, classification, business workflows, remediation actions, and insightful reporting. Congruity360 continues to tackle additional data governance challenges through innovations to the Classify360 Platform to continue delivering revolutionary data governance and classification, at scale, to the enterprise world.

ABOUT CONGRUITY360

Congruity360 delivers the only data management solution built on a foundation of classification, by expert data storage engineers alongside expert data privacy consultants. The Classify360 Platform is easy to implement, requires no outside consultants, and quickly analyzes your data at the petabyte scale in days, not weeks or months. Learn more at www.congruity360.com.

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Park Place Technologies Acquires Assets from Congruity360

New assets will enhance Park Place’s Professional Services globally and expand offerings for enterprise customes

CLEVELAND, OH and NORWELL, MASS. – September 15, 2021 – Park Place Technologies, a global IT infrastructure services and solutions provider, announced the acquisition of specific assets of Congruity360. Norwell, Massachusetts-based Congruity360 provides global, vendor-agnostic, IT Management services.

Park Place will acquire Congruity360’s third-party maintenance business, data migration services businesses and new hardware sales offerings. Congruity360 will maintain ownership of its information governance and software business.

“When we acquired Curvature late last year, it greatly strengthened Park Place’s hardware maintenance and professional services capabilities. The Curvature acquisition created a significant and meaningful competitor to OEM data center maintenance. Additionally, it greatly enhanced our professional services capabilities. Congruity360 mirrors that model with a nice slate of maintenance clients and a dynamic and growing data migration business that will add another layer to our professional services capabilities,” said Chris Adams, Park Place President and CEO.

Gartner reports that because data migration projects can involve multiple systems and are time-consuming, nearly 50 percent of all such projects will exceed budget or be detrimental to the business. Park Place’s Professional Services solutions will incorporate Congruity360’s data migration practice to efficiently and cost-effectively consult, manage and carry out the largest and most complex data migrations, regardless of OEM and VAR.

“The Congruity360 team understands data, understands workflow, and understands compliance and security,” said Brian Davidson, Congruity360 CEO. “We are experts in moving petabytes of storage data for Fortune 500 companies. We help plan and strategize for moves involving Cloud, on-prem and hybrid storage platforms, meeting the biggest challenges that CIOs and CEOs face when migrating data today. We own the process from end to end; we can augment internal teams or provide knowledge transfer for new infrastructure in the environment with unmatched speed and efficiency.”

This is Park Place’s second acquisition in 2021 and 18th acquisition since 2016.

About Congruity360

Congruity360 is a single-source data governance provider bringing order to data chaos with Classify360. Our solutions keep enterprise data secure, healthy, and agile, exposing reliable data sets that empower businesses to make intelligent decisions. With a focus on cost savings, simplicity, and efficiency, Congruity360 introduces simple workflows, reduced storage footprints, and maximum productivity to every engagement.

For additional information please visit: https://www.congruity360.com/

About Park Place Technologies

Park Place Technologies is a global IT infrastructure and solutions provider with a unique portfolio (of resources and services) designed to streamline the monitoring and management of digital environments.

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NORWELL, MA, — May 18, 2021 — Congruity360, a data discovery, data governance, and legal automation provider, today announced the availability of the Classify360 platform and other SaaS solutions in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

“Availability in AWS Marketplace enables seamless customer deployments globally of our SaaS cloud platform with significantly less burden, while also benefitting from the cost savings, security, flexibility, and scalability of AWS,” says Brian Davidson, Chief Executive Officer of Congruity360. “Leveraging AWS native solutions enables our developers to focus exclusively on how to solve our customers growing data governance challenges, while AWS Partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN) offer our customers best in class performance and support. The flexibility AWS Marketplace provides brings true procurement optimization to our customers that can help them make faster, smarter decisions.”

“AWS Marketplace helps organizations like Congruity360 to transform the way software is presented, procured, and deployed to customers. This joint effort provides shortened timelines for these customers, offering extensive value for new innovations” said, George Maroulakos, Head – Americas Field Business Development at AWS Marketplace.

Congruity360 is a single-source data governance provider bringing order to data chaos. Our solutions keep enterprise data secure, healthy, and agile, exposing reliable data sets that empower businesses to make intelligent decisions. With a focus on cost savings, simplicity, and efficiency, Congruity360 introduces simple workflows, reduced storage footprints, and maximum productivity to every engagement.

For additional information please visit: https://www.congruity360.com/

Congruity360 solutions in AWS Marketplace https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B08XLPLP9M

For sales, product demo, or partnership discussions, please email awsmarketplace@congruity360.com

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Congruity360

bkumnick@congruity360.com

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Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Classify360 to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

NORWELL, MA, U.S.A. — October 22, 2020 — Congruity360, data governance and storage leader, today announced the availability of Classify360 in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Congruity360 customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

Classify360, Congruity360’s flagship data classification SaaS solution, is a universal information engine delivering content-level insight across structured and unstructured data, unlocking data across all storage systems, specifically legacy storage systems. The SaaS solution addresses data problems at the storage system level, not solely the business application level, with a deep understanding of the total data storage environment. The power of supervised and unsupervised machine learning is strategically harnessed within the solution, providing an even deeper layer of risk assessment and elastic modeling to ensure accurate classification across the data landscape. Customers utilizing Classify360 experience demonstrable ROI in weeks, not years, courtesy of the tool’s on-demand usage capabilities.

“Working with Microsoft’s Azure cloud services allows us to leverage elastic cloud compute capabilities when running our Classify360 SaaS solution in Azure environments,” says Chris Ryan, Chief Development Officer of Congruity360. “We are able to instantly spin up compute on demand when processing petabytes of data and scale down accordingly when the platform is processing lesser amounts of data. The elasticity Azure provides brings true cost and timeline optimization to our clients, helping them make faster, smarter mission-critical decisions.”

Sajan Parihar, Senior Director, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp said, “We’re pleased to welcome Congruity360’s Classify360 solution to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which gives our partners great exposure to cloud customers around the globe. Azure Marketplace offers world-class quality experiences from global trusted partners with solutions tested to work seamlessly with Azure.”

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

Congruity360 is a single-source data governance provider bringing order to data chaos. Our solutions keep enterprise data secure, healthy, and agile, exposing reliable data sets that empower businesses to make intelligent decisions. With a focus on cost savings, simplicity, and efficiency, Congruity360 introduces simple workflows, reduced storage footprints, and maximum productivity to every engagement.

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Congruity360

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Boston, MA (September 9, 2020) – Congruity360, a leading data governance and classification provider, further grows its portfolio to include Storfirst360 (formerly STORFIRST7), the industry’s most secure cloud-ready file system migration and information management software, through its acquisition of unstructured data science development experts, SEVEN10.

Congruity360 and SEVEN10 have, respectively, delivered exceptional data migrations via expert services and innovative technology as independent organizations. In coming together, the companies’ joint vision of approaching data governance holistically – at the infrastructure layer where the data “lives,” rather than the commonly marketed application-centric methods – strengthens Congruity360’s commitment to delivering first-class data transformation and cloud-first strategies to enterprise organizations.

Storfirst360, SEVEN10’s fully automated data migration and management software for unstructured data, eliminates costly professional services and time-consuming rip-and-replace upgrades with software-driven, trusted data movement technology. Congruity360 will leverage Storfirst360 to deliver Intelligent MigrationTM services to customers, layering deep content-level classification atop migration projects to reduce redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) and risk data prior to a cloud or on-prem migration. Classification is achieved by running Classify360, Congruity360’s flagship data classification solution, across an organization’s data repositories to provide content-level insight into both structured and unstructured data, including data residing on legacy storage systems. Together, Storfirst360 and Classify360 enable enterprises to maintain business-critical operations while providing full security and maximizing both on-prem and cloud-based storage capacities with an accelerated migration timeline.

“Adding Storfirst360 to our Intelligent Migration process enables enterprise customers to pursue cloud storage workflows with security and ease,” said Brian Davidson, CEO of Congruity360. “By bringing SEVEN10 and Congruity360 together, we’re better positioned to deliver innovative, cost-effective, and reliable data governance solutions to solve complex enterprise data challenges.”

“For nearly twenty years, SEVEN10 has delivered first-class data migration and management solutions with the goal of bringing autonomy to our customers,” said Bobby Moulton, CEO of SEVEN10. “In joining forces with fellow industry veteran Congruity360, we see a future where your data works for you; intelligent, secure, and on-demand.”

Congruity360 will continue to strengthen its core competency of data management and governance, predicated upon profound data classification, by connecting to even more structured and unstructured data sources in the coming months. Partnerships with public cloud providers will drive smoother integration into enterprises’ hybrid-cloud storage strategies by easing the risk and burden associated with cloud migrations.

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About Congruity360
Congruity360 is a single-source data governance provider bringing order to data chaos. Our solutions keep enterprise data secure, healthy, and agile, exposing reliable data sets that empower businesses to make intelligent decisions. With a focus on cost savings, simplicity, and efficiency, Congruity360 introduces simple workflows, reduced storage footprints, and maximum productivity to every engagement.

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PRESS RELEASE
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Pembroke, MA (August 29, 2017) – Congruity360, a leading provider of professional and fully managed services for enterprise data management, continues to strategically expand its suite of offerings with its latest acquisition of NextGen Storage (NextGen), a hybrid-cloud consulting and vendor-sourcing services firm. NextGen’s cloud-integrated data storage and data management technologies, coupled with software-defined cloud-interconnect services, better positions Congruity360 as a leading innovator with an enhanced value proposition in distributed data management.

“NextGen has actively assisted organizations in the areas of cloud optimization and transformation for years,” said Mark Shirman, Chief Operating Officer of Congruity360.  “The acquisition of NextGen reinforces Congruity360’s commitment to providing partners and end users with the most innovative, differentiated, and cost-effective data storage experience possible.”

As part of the acquisition, NextGen founder John Downey has been named Chief Technology Officer of Congruity360. Downey will leverage his business development and strategic consulting expertise to evolve and further develop the company’s portfolio of high-quality managed services and solutions across storage, migration, support, information governance, and turnkey colocation services. “The Congruity360 team is revolutionizing the storage space in a hybrid-cloud world and continues to enrich the data management experience for our partners.” said Downey.

Coming off the heels of its recent union with KNJ, Inc., Congruity360 is poised to undergo significant growth through the close of 2017 as it expands its customer base and strengthens partner relationships. The company will open its state-of-the-art Executive Briefing Center, housed within its Data Center in Fall River, MA, next month, which will serve as a training and collaboration hub for business partners and features a state-of-the-art demo lab, ample conference space, and breakout rooms.

About Congruity360
Congruity360 is a comprehensive solution provider for complete data lifecycle management. Congruity360 delivers high-quality managed services and solutions across storage, migration, support, information governance, and turnkey colocation services within its privately-owned Data Center. By simplifying and optimizing IT infrastructures, Congruity360 empowers partners to focus on their core business competencies by increasing data reliability and reducing risk. Congruity360 is dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and transformation in an ever-evolving IT ecosystem.