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Unstructured Data Governance

Dark data is your biggest
hidden risk.
We bring it to light.

Experts estimate that nearly 60% of enterprise unstructured data is Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial (ROT).

Breakthru Technologies™ helps organizations discover, classify, govern, and eliminate ROT data—transforming unmanaged documents, emails, and media into compliant, secure, and cost-efficient information assets -- at enterprise scale.

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The Challenge
80% of enterprise data is unstructured — and ungoverned.
Without Breakthru, You Face:
  • Dark data accumulating across file shares, email archives, and collaboration platforms
  • Sensitive data scattered across systems with no visibility or control
  • Regulatory exposure from records that should have been destroyed
  • Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data driving storage costs higher
  • eDiscovery and legal hold processes that take weeks instead of hours
  • AI initiatives blocked by unclassified, untrusted data at the source
With Breakthru, You Get:
  • Automated discovery of unstructured data at exabyte scale
  • AI-powered classification and sensitive data detection across all formats
  • Policy-based retention, legal holds, and defensible deletion
  • ROT analysis to eliminate redundant and obsolete data
  • eDiscovery and audit-ready search across the full data estate
  • Clean, classified data ready for AI and analytics workloads
Core Capabilities
From dark data to governed intelligence.

Breakthru works with leading platforms to implement the right unstructured data governance solution for your environment — purpose-built for the scale and complexity of enterprise data estates.

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Dark Data Discovery
Automatically scan and inventory unstructured data across file shares, cloud storage, email archives, collaboration platforms, and legacy repositories — at exabyte scale.
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AI-Powered Classification
Apply AI and machine learning to identify, classify, and tag documents, emails, and media by content type, sensitivity, business value, and retention requirement — automatically.
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ROT Analysis & Remediation
Identify and eliminate Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial data. Reduce storage costs, lower risk exposure, and free your infrastructure from data that has outlived its value.
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Sensitive Data Protection
Detect PII, PHI, financial records, and other sensitive content across unstructured repositories. Apply access controls, encryption, and remediation workflows automatically.
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Retention & Legal Hold
Enforce policy-based retention schedules, apply legal holds instantly, and manage defensible deletion — with immutable audit trails that satisfy regulators and legal teams.
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eDiscovery & Search
Enable fast, accurate search and retrieval across the full unstructured data estate. Accelerate Early Case Assessment, litigation response, and regulatory inquiry in hours — not weeks.
How It Works
From discovery to governed intelligence in four steps.
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Discover
Connect to all data sources — file shares, email, cloud storage, collaboration tools — and surface every piece of unstructured data across your environment.
02
Classify
Apply AI-driven classification to identify content type, sensitivity, business value, ROT status, and applicable retention policies across billions of files.
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Govern
Enforce retention schedules, apply legal holds, remediate sensitive data, and eliminate ROT — with full auditability and defensible process documentation.
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Activate
Transform governed data into a trusted, searchable asset ready for analytics, eDiscovery, AI workloads, and business intelligence — with ongoing monitoring.
Use Cases
Where unstructured data governance delivers immediate value.
Regulatory Compliance & Audit Readiness
When regulators ask for records, your team needs to respond in hours — not weeks of manual searching.
  • Apply retention policies aligned to GDPR, HIPAA, and SEC regulations
  • Produce audit-ready evidence with immutable chain of custody
  • Demonstrate defensible deletion for records past retention period
eDiscovery & Litigation Support
Legal holds and early case assessment require fast, accurate access to relevant records across the entire data estate.
  • Apply legal holds instantly across distributed repositories
  • Search and retrieve relevant documents in hours, not weeks
  • Reduce litigation cost with targeted Early Case Assessment
Storage Optimization & Cost Reduction
ROT data consumes expensive primary storage while delivering zero business value — and the problem compounds every year.
  • Identify and eliminate redundant and obsolete data at scale
  • Re-tier data to lower-cost storage automatically
  • Reduce storage footprint and infrastructure cost measurably
AI & Analytics Readiness
AI models trained on unclassified, ungoverned data produce unreliable outputs and create regulatory risk.
  • Classify and clean unstructured data before it feeds AI pipelines
  • Remove sensitive data from training sets automatically
  • Build a trusted, governed foundation for enterprise AI initiatives
Compliance Frameworks
Built for the most demanding regulatory environments.

Breakthru unstructured data governance solutions are mapped to the compliance frameworks that govern records management, privacy, and information security across industries.

GDPR HIPAA SOC 2 ISO 27001 CCPA SEC 17a-4 FINRA CJIS PCI-DSS
Industries Served
Unstructured data governance for complex, regulated environments.
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Financial Services
Govern emails, trading communications, and client records in compliance with SEC 17a-4, FINRA, and MiFID II — with immutable archiving and rapid eDiscovery.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
Classify and protect PHI across documents, imaging, and communications. Meet HIPAA retention requirements and respond to audits with confidence.
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Federal Government
Manage records in compliance with NARA requirements, FOIA obligations, and federal retention schedules — across legacy and modern systems.
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Legal & Professional Services
Protect client confidentiality, manage matter files, and respond to eDiscovery requests rapidly with governed, searchable document repositories.
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Education
Govern student records, research data, and institutional communications in compliance with FERPA and state records management requirements.
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Defense & Intelligence
Apply classification controls, access restrictions, and retention policies to sensitive documents and communications across air-gapped and hybrid environments.

Ready to govern your unstructured data estate?

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