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Control data sprawl and compliance risk before it’s too late.

Scan petabytes of council data - and billions of records - with Lightning IQ.
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Managing data retention, citizen privacy, and costs amidst digital overload.

Local government bodies face increasing pressure to manage data retention, protect citizen records, and reduce operational costs—all while meeting GDPR, UK data regulations, and FOI requirements. 

Decades of digital sprawl have created unstructured data lakes—driving up storage bills and exposing councils to unnecessary risk.

Lightning-fast results for local authorities:

  • Rapidly surface and assess data risk across cloud, servers, and legacy platforms.
  • Locate and manage PII to maintain GDPR and FOI compliance.
  • Identify redundant and obsolete data driving unnecessary storage costs.
  • Enable better control of third-party vendor data and supply chain exposure.
  • Lay the foundation for responsible AI adoption and improved citizen services.
Clean data, clear accountability, lower costs—all delivered at speed.
 
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Enjoy near real time reports with weekly monitoring scans.

Scan your council's storage network weekly to enjoy near real-time monitoring of newly created PII and sensitive data. Lightning IQ is the only solution built to scan PBs of data every hour. Shine a light in the darkest corners of your data storage and provide instant visibility to:  
  • The creation (and location) of new, sensitive PII.
  • New duplicates and their locations.
Transform your compliance processes from reactive to proactive.
 

Breathtaking speed changes everything.

 
Capable of scanning and analyzing 100 billion records (25+ petabytes) per day on Dell, EMC and NetApp storage. Finish in days what takes other firms' months.

Easy to deploy, easy to use.

 
Deployment is fully automated and completed in minutes using Infrastructure as Code. Compute resources provisioned are only used during scan time and shut down after scans are completed. 

ROI in 90 days

 
Lightning IQ is the only solution capable of indexing data at rates exceeding 1 billion records an hour. ROI may be recognized after the first day of use. Scan local drives, network clusters or cloud archives on a per project basis.
 
Unlock new revenue for your company.

Join the Lightning IQ data revolution