News Release

Veritas Introduces FedRAMP SaaS Compliant Cloud Solutions for Archiving and eDiscovery

Veritas Enterprise Vault & Discovery Accelerator dramatically reduce overhead costs for government agencies

Mountain View, CA – October 25, 2016 – Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, today announced that Veritas Enterprise Vault and Veritas Discovery Accelerator  are now available as a FedRAMP Authorized, SaaS level , Moderate impact cloud service. Through our partnership with bluesource, a Veritas platinum certified partner, and their partnership with ProjectHosts, U.S. government agencies in need of cloud-based Archiving and eDiscovery can now gain immediate access to these Veritas solutions in a FedRAMP Authorized cloud. With these solutions, government agencies can now minimize the cost of overhead for hardware and software ownership, and move to a fully managed government cloud archiving and eDiscovery service to successfully meet Capstone and immutability requirements.

“Veritas is committed to helping Federal agencies gain a stronger understanding of their data so they can make better decisions about it—and grant fast, safe services to citizens,” said Tom Kennedy, Vice President & GM, Public Sector, Veritas.  “Veritas Enterprise Vault and Veritas Discovery Accelerator in a SaaS form factor allows government agencies to develop a holistic information governance strategy, while complying with the U.S. government’s FedRAMP security mandate for cloud-based services. Our software is hosted and delivered from a SaaS-level FedRAMP Moderate cloud environment built on Microsoft Azure. This solution helps Federal agencies quickly improve their information management needs, while saving them considerable time and money as a cloud service.”

The combination of Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator offers customers a comprehensive solution for managing their information, from creation to discovery and ultimately to disposition if and when appropriate.  Customizable policies help customers modernize beyond manual and time-consuming approaches for making decisions about their data.  Automated information retention takes the guesswork out of determining what to keep and what to delete, which is increasingly critical as agencies look to meet looming deadlines imposed by mandates such as the Managing Government Records Directive.

“Having provided a fully managed service for Enterprise Vault for over 10 years—on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments—it’s very gratifying to now be able to extend the benefits of our EV247 solution to U.S. government agencies who have been keen to move more of their archiving and eDiscovery assets to a secure cloud model,” said Matthew Edwards, Group CTO and president, bluesource North America. “By partnering with ProjectHosts, our EV247 solution is now available in a FedRAMP Authorized cloud and is made available as a FedRAMP SaaS-level, Moderate impact cloud service.”

"As a recognized leader in information management we are very excited work with bluesource and Veritas. We have incorporated their application software directly into our Azure FedRAMP cloud environment and performed the due-diligence to ensure that all of the required security controls are in place to maintain SaaS-level FedRAMP compliance," said Scott Chapman, CEO and co-founder of Project Hosts, Inc. "This enables Veritas to deliver and market their applications to government agencies as a FedRAMP SaaS-level compliant cloud service in an Azure subscription.”

For more information please visit Veritas Enterprise Vault, Veritas Discovery Accelerator  or sales@bluesource.net

About FedRAMP:
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. This approach uses a “do once, use many times” framework that saves an estimated 30-40% of government costs, as well as both time and staff required to conduct redundant agency security assessments. FedRAMP is the result of close collaboration with cybersecurity and cloud experts from the General Services Administration (GSA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DOD), National Security Agency (NSA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Council and its working groups, as well as private industry.

About Veritas Technologies:
Veritas Technologies enables organizations to harness the power of their information, with information management solutions serving the world’s largest and most complex environments. Veritas works with organizations of all sizes, including 86 percent of global Fortune 500 companies, improving data availability and revealing insights to drive competitive advantage. www.veritas.com

About bluesource:
At bluesource we focus on managing, preserving, searching, moving your data and providing expert eDiscovery skills. Through our team of senior consultants, we advise government and businesses on how to preserve data: classifying and archiving what’s needed. We specialize in enabling efficient and timely data searches and also supporting the eDiscovery process including legal hold, early case assessment and automating the legal workflow. With 16 years’ experience, we are an accredited Veritas and Microsoft partner with exceptionally strong expertise on the following platforms: Veritas Enterprise VaultTM, Veritas NetBackupTM, Veritas eDiscovery PlatformTM , Microsoft Office365TM and Microsoft AzureTM. We work with clients to host solutions on-premises or in the cloud. Our capability extends beyond just consulting to provide fully managed services for both archiving and eDiscovery, delivering 99.9% SLA uptime and ensuring health, performance and system availability 24 x 7 x 365. www.bluesource.net - info@bluesource.net

About ProjectHosts:
Project Hosts, Inc. is a recognized U.S. Government Cloud Services Provider (CSP) and leader in providing Managed Cloud Services on Azure and hosting Microsoft Solutions and ISV applications. Federal and state government agencies, leading enterprises and medium-sized businesses rely on Project Hosts to deliver a highly secure and dedicated cloud environment that can be customized to meet their specific business needs, security standards, IT governance and integration requirements. www.projecthosts.com - info@projecthosts.com

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