SPHERE has announced a Technology Alliance Partnership with NetApp to accelerate product development and expand market awareness of its flagship SPHEREboard platform.
Enhancing Operational Efficiencies and Security
As a Technology Alliance Partner, SPHERE will offer operational efficiencies, infrastructure security capabilities, clean-up tools for audit findings, and cloud enablement for unstructured data to the NetApp customer base through the SPHEREboard platform. By integrating with NetApp’s storage technology, the joint solution will enable large IT organizations to perform in-depth data analysis and remediation of entitlement issues across their unstructured data platforms.
Key Features of the Joint Solution
- Scalable Data Collection Mechanisms: Efficiently gather data from various sources.
- Simplified Business Views: Provide clear insights into enterprise inventory and risk.
- Seamless Transition from Reporting to Remediation: Streamline processes from identification to resolution.
- Cost-effective Data Governance: Enhance data management and compliance.
- Auditing and Compliance: Ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
“We are thrilled to be part of this very prestigious network of organizations as we are looking to advance our capabilities and add unprecedented value for our customers,” explained SPHERE President and Founder Rita Gurevich. “NetApp is a trusted platform, and we are excited to integrate with their solution to help companies gain critical insights into their data and also provide immediate risk reduction options that improve their security posture.”
SPHEREboard: A Comprehensive Data Governance Solution
SPHEREboard enables IT organizations to leverage existing infrastructure investments to gather and report on data from various sources, providing a holistic view of the global environment in terms of security and risk. This allows project teams to perform entitlement reviews and other data governance projects without exhausting budgets, especially crucial as companies address the negative business impacts of COVID-19.
With data growing exponentially and the costs to store and manage it rising, understanding data that is “Stale” versus “Active” allows storage groups to determine the age of content and usage patterns. Additionally, infrastructure and security teams are tasked with resolving major audit failures related to open, excessive, and non-standard access. The NetApp Technology Alliance Program supports these efforts across their customer base.
Enhanced Functionality through Partnership
Previously, SPHEREboard leveraged the NetApp API to collect folder structures and metadata. Now, activity data will be incorporated to enhance the platform's capabilities, including:
- Improved Ownership Assignment: Increase accuracy in identifying data owners.
- Deep Data Analysis: Identify stale datasets that can be retired.
- Enhanced Data Usage Views: Provide business users with better insights into data usage.
- User Access Visibility: Show users who will lose access due to changes, preventing potential outages.
- Activity Investigation: Investigate individual activities on unstructured data assets.
- Access Control Management: Add active users to appropriate access control lists and remove permissions that violate policies.
SPHEREboard is now available on NetApp Partner Connect.
About SPHERE
SPHERE is a woman-owned company redefining how organizations achieve controls across their environment. As a consulting company, SPHERE has productized 10 years of experience into a purpose-built automation platform. The solution provides an innovative approach, starting with collection and incorporating remediation, of critical data, privileged accounts, on-prem Messaging, and O365 assets. For more information, please visit www.sphereco.com.
About NetApp
NetApp is the leader in cloud data services, empowering global organizations to change their world with data. Together with our partners, NetApp helps build unique data fabrics, simplifying hybrid multicloud environments and securely delivering the right data, services, and applications to the right people at the right time. Learn more at www.netapp.com.
