Access. Power. Govern.
The intelligence is already in your files.
Symphony Knowledge Edition pairs Panzura's data services platform with MetadataHub's extraction engine. It harvests the embedded metadata hidden inside unstructured files and turns opaque repositories into searchable, AI-ready assets.
of worldwide data is now unstructured, growing 55 to 65% a year (IDC / Seagate).
of AI projects will be abandoned through 2026 for lack of AI-ready data (Gartner).
Where it fits
The hard problem the catalogs skipped.
Enterprise data catalogs govern structured assets, databases and warehouses, well. Knowledge Edition solves the harder problem they were never built for: extracting content-level metadata from unstructured files at scale. CAD drawings, medical images, genomic datasets, and specialized scientific formats have to be opened, parsed, and mapped into a schema. That is the MetadataHub engine inside Symphony.
The MetadataHub model
Access. Power. Govern.
Access
MetadataHub harvests embedded metadata from hundreds of file formats, turning opaque repositories into searchable, AI-ready assets.
Power
Symphony queries the catalog to discover, filter, and provision datasets on demand, without re-acquiring a single file.
Govern
Policy-driven rules on captured metadata automate workflows, optimize placement, and enforce data provenance and compliance.
What you actually get
Capture once. Govern it, find it, store it for less.
Knowledge Edition captures the intelligence in your files one time, then keeps working for you: defensible governance, instant discovery, and dramatically lower storage cost across the entire estate.
Meet governance
Enforce retention, access, and provenance on data you can finally see. Every file accounted for, every policy auditable, compliance you can defend.
Find anything
Search the whole estate by content, not folder. Surface the right dataset in seconds instead of hunting across silos.
Store cheap and deep
Push cold data to the deepest, lowest-cost tier and keep it fully findable. The catalog entry is a fraction of the file size, so you stop paying premium rates to store dormant data.
Capture once
Harvest embedded metadata a single time as data lands. No repeated reprocessing, no reopening source files to answer the same question twice.
How it works
One integration, end to end.
Connect
MetadataHub connects directly to your storage over SMB, NFS, or S3-compatible interfaces. No data migration required.
Extract
Embedded metadata is harvested from hundreds of file formats and projected into a flexible, scalable catalog.
Query and Govern
Symphony queries the catalog for discovery, policy enforcement, and orchestration, then retrieves only the files you need.
What Knowledge Edition delivers
Capabilities
Defensible governance
Enforce retention, access, and provenance policies on data you can finally see, with a full audit trail.
Find anything, instantly
Search an entire estate by content, not just file name or folder, and surface the right data in seconds.
Lower storage cost
Place cold data on the cheapest, deepest tier and keep it findable, so you stop paying premium rates to store dormant files.
No data migration
Catalog data where it already lives across SMB, NFS, and S3. No rip-and-replace, no disruption to users.
Automated workflows
Policies act on captured metadata to move, tier, and route data automatically, removing manual data wrangling.
AI-ready on day one
Hand models a clean, context-rich catalog instead of a raw file dump, so AI initiatives start from usable data.
Put your dormant data to work.
Talk to GRAU DATA about the MetadataHub engine behind Symphony Knowledge Edition, or book a Symphony demo with Panzura.