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SynerScope now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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

HELVOIRT, The Netherlands — February 21, 2024 — SynerScope, the better, faster, safer solution for your data problems, today announced the availability of its cloud native Ixivault solution in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. SynerScope’s customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

SynerScope’s Ixivault accelerates identification and labelling of unstructured data and dark data enabling enterprises to turn data into intelligence. It also provides a data vault in Microsoft Azure blob or Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage where you can safely store your enterprise data, even the lesser-known parts of it. By unifying your data, no matter where it lives, Ixivault resolves your data disarray and helps deliver a single source of truth for better decision making.

“Microsoft Azure Marketplace truly delivers on the benefits it promises to both customers and ISVs. The simplification of the procurement process in this first-ever purchase via the Azure Marketplace by a Dutch government shared datacenter demonstrates the value of this partnership. We will now be able to deploy our solution is a matter of hours and transactions will be consolidated in a single invoice through the Azure portal. This will help the government agency monitor and control expenses across the organization by using defined roles and permissions,” said Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO of SynerScope.

“Microsoft welcomes SynerScope’s Ixivault to Azure Marketplace, where global customers can find, try, and buy from among thousands of partner solutions,” said Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. “Azure Marketplace and trusted partners like SynerScope help customers do more with less by increasing efficiency, buying confidently, and spending smarter.”

Key features of SynerScope Ixivault:

  • Visual scanner of ALL data (including unstructured data) that makes cluster labeling possible
  • Automated sorting by content
  • Propose labels by cluster, leaving room for domain experts to validate, choose, and adjust where necessary

Key benefits for you as a user:

  • Easy and safe to deploy through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
  • Deployed directly in your own Microsoft Azure tenant
  • Serverless for flexible scaling and cost control
  • Easy to use, a short training course is available

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.

Learn more about SynerScope’s Ixivault solution and get it now by visiting its page on the Azure Marketplace.

ABOUT SYNERSCOPE

As a disruptor and innovator in information management, the world of dark data is our first concern. We reduce the cost of dark data discovery thousandfold by using every advantage from a Microsoft Azure cloud first strategy. By getting to know your data you can efficiently arrange and run protection, access control, publication, retention, AI analytics processing and the archiving and purging of your data.

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Annelieke Nagel, SynerScope, +31-88-2553282, info@synerscope.com

Moving to the Azure cloud: unpacking dark data

Moving to the Azure cloud?

Today, more and more businesses are moving to the cloud – to automate and take advantage of AI and scalable storage, and to reduce costs over existing legacy infrastructure. In fact, in 2021, an estimated 19.2% of large organizations made the move to the cloud. And Microsoft Azure is close to leading that shift – with a 60% market adoption.

Often organizations focus on selected applications during a cloud transition. However, existing data might actually present the bigger complexity.  A majority of organizations use less than 50% of the data they own. At the same time, there is no oversight of data that is owned. This unused, unclassified, and unlabeled data is otherwise known as “dark data”, because it remains in the shade until abundant time is allocated to sort, label, and classify it.

Moving to the Azure Cloud is Like Moving House

We believe there is merit to comparing moving to the Azure cloud and moving house. You decide where to move, you choose your new infrastructure, and you get everything ready to move in. Then, you pack up your old belongings and move it with you. The problem is you likely already have plenty of boxes lying around. Think about your attic, your basement, and storage. Things from earlier relocations. You might have lost all knowledge of what’s in there. The same holds true when your organization’s applications and data must move house. But this time you also have to deal with ‘boxes’ of data left unlabeled by people leaving the organization, data left unused for a longer time, and data left behind from already obsolete applications. Moving this and other less well-known data may create bigger issues in the future.

  • Data is accumulating faster than it ever did before. You’ll have more of it tomorrow. Therefore now is the best time to go through data and categorize it
  • Proper governance of data is impossible without knowing its contents first. Older data collected from before GDPR regulations is still there. Compliance and Risk officers and CISOs dread this unknown data and fear it may fall out of compliance regulations.
  • It can be difficult to pass regulatory compliance audits with dark data ar If you can’t open a ‘box’ of data to show auditors what’s inside, you can’t prove you’re compliant.
  • You’re also not allowed to simply delete data. Industries and governments must comply with laws and regulations on archiving and maintaining open data.
  • When you know what data you have you can strategize and move towards controlled decisions on cold/warm/hot storage to optimize both costs and access. Moving data that is still dark may bring about irreversible data loss or at least expensive repairs in the future
  • Locating and accessing data requires the kind of information best-captured in classifications and labels, historical data analysis needs this metadata.
  • The parts of data that make up dark data leaves organizations vulnerable as it makes designing and taking security precautions extra hard.
  • Sometimes you can or must delete information. However, you can only do so if you know its contents beforehand and can determine regulatory compliance and have the foresight for future valuable analytics.

How can you optimize accessing this data? When one of our clients, the Drents Overijsselse Delta Waterschappen, looked at archiving and storing its past project documentation in the cloud, it found the necessary manual labeling a daunting task. The massive time-investment needed is very similar for other organizations making a cloud transition. Manually reviewing data is simply too labor-intensive for most organizations to undertake within a feasible timeframe.

Unpacking Data with Synerscope’s Ixivault

With Synerscope, you can achieve the data clarity you need. As a weakly supervised AI system, our solutions are built to perform where standard AI approaches would fail. Synerscope’s Ixivault implements onto your Azure Tenant – with no backend of its own. This means that all data stays inside your tenant, which is a big plus for all matters and concerns regarding security, governance, and compliance. Our friction-less implementation then allows you to open up, categorize, and label dark data using a combination of machine learning with manual review to speed up the full process by an average of 70%.

Ixivault analyzes your full data pool of structured and unstructured data, creating categories based on data similarities, pulling keywords and distinctive terms, and generating images of those data stacks – which your domain expert can then sit down to quickly label. Most importantly, Ixivault has built-in learning capabilities, meaning that it gets better at categorizing and labeling your specific data as you use it.

All this makes Ixivault the perfect tool to help you move – by unpacking boxes of data as you move them to the cloud. You can then choose appropriate storage, governance and access controls, even if you need or don’t need to keep the data. For the first time you can have a near edge-to-edge overview of all your data with zoom in options to very granular levels so you can make the best choice what to do next with this newly discovered data. Having new information about your data can make you money and save you money all at the same time.

If you need help with unboxing your dark data as you move, contact us for more information about how Synerscope can help. You may also purchase the Ixivault app directly at Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace.

Inspired by Inspire

Some take-aways from Microsoft Inspire 2019

What’s happens in Vegas should not stay in Vegas…. Microsoft Inspire is one of the major events for the global data community. It is exciting to learn about the developing vision of Microsoft as the leader in all things data for everyone.

From 14-18 July, 2019, Microsoft Inspire invited its partners from over the whole world to Las Vegas. As a Microsoft Partner, we were there to learn, network, do business and have fun with other partners and the Microsoft solution specialists, managers and senior leadership. We will share our experiences and thoughts with you in a series of blogs.

In his keynote Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, covered the increasing intensity and impact of tech to society. Gaming, modern home and workplace, business applications, IoT devices, AI and Machine Learning…  this tech intensity changes the way we live and work. One thing is for sure: we have become data-driven and data will rule the world “That’s what’s leading to us building out Azure as the world’s computer. We now have 54 data center regions.” (Nadella Quote)

To facilitate the new world of data, Microsoft works on the creation of a ‘limitless data estate’ based on Azure Databases and Azure Analytics. Limitless in scale, variety and place: in the cloud and at the edge.

Nadella propagated the democratization of AI and of app development. AI will expand to the many sorts of apps, services and devices that we use in daily life. Consumers and workers will benefit from the help of their digital environment in their doing and decision-making.

All those emerging innovations need to be created. Nadella forecasts that 500 million apps will be built in the next 5 years, more than we saw emerging in the past 40 years. But who makes them? One of the growing pains the digital transformation our society is going through, is the increasing shortage of application developers.

Citizen development, by ordinary users who build and then share their applications, will help to meet this huge challenge. The tools for easy and no-code development are here to stay. This allows everybody to become a developer.

Big Data is Dead, long live Big Data AI.

Nadella’s keynote was also about the big numbers. Of connected devices (50 billion in 10 years time), of users (3,2 billion worldwide at the end of 2019) and – of course – of data. To illustrate the scale of the data explosion: 90% of all data is created in the last 2 years! And mind this: 73% of the data (old and new) still needs to be analyzed.

This leads to a growing ocean of dark data with hidden treasures beneath its surface. You only need to find them and bring them to the surface! And exactly that’s where Synerscope comes in: we can help to create value by accelerating and optimizing the safe and controlled exploration and exploitation of your data. As Gil Press noted in Forrester early July: Big Data is Dead, long live Big Data AI.

In our next blog we will explain how to deal with the ocean of dark data in a safe and cost-effective way. Stay tuned!

SynerScope Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

 

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to SynerScope’s Ixiwa and Iximeer products to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Microsoft Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

Helvoirt, The Netherlands — February 7, 2019 — As an innovator permanently pushing boundaries in big data information technology, SynerScope today announced the availability of its products Ixiwa and Iximeer in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. SynerScope’s customers can now take advantage of the scalability, high availability, and security of Azure, with streamlined deployment and management.

“We are very happy to be part of the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. For us it signifies the next step in our development and confirms that we bring a much needed value to the market: where others focus on building the data lake, we focus on bringing that data lake to value by getting data, extremely fast, in front of people in as many facets of your organization as possible,” said Jan-Kees Buenen, CEO, SynerScope.

Sajan Parihar, Director, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp, said, “We’re excited to welcome SynerScope’s Ixiwa and Iximeer solutions 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 finished Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and premium datasets. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

SynerScope is an innovator: permanently pushing boundaries in big data information technology. We create new visions and next-generation solutions by working with multiple kinds and massive amounts of structured and unstructured data simultaneously, resulting in easy to use, affordable, and highly effective technology to support you when you need data the most. SynerScope helps you make important strategic and daily operational decisions and helps reveal new strategic business opportunities at a glance.

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Sylvia Wijshijer, SynerScope, +31 (0) 6 2364 4933, sylvia.wijshijer@synerscope.com