Fast Data Technology Now Offers a Complete Suite of Internet Management Products.Business Editors BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003 Fast Data Technology, formerly Fatline Corporation, has expanded its service offering from just Internet monitoring Analyzing traffic on the Internet. Monitoring is performed to determine packet volume for network configuration as well as to find out how employees are spending their time on the Internet. This is the first step in determining whether or not filtering should be added to the network. to include a complete suite of products designed to help organizations better manage the Internet. Fast Data Technology offers Internet filtering See Web filtering and firewall. and blocking, e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to and blocking, and anti-virus protection for organizations that want to improve productivity, reduce bandwidth drain, improve security and eliminate liability concerns associated with Internet use. As part of the company's expanded focus, it changed its name from Fatline Corporation to Fast Data Technology. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. company executives, the new name is more reflective of the company's core business offerings. "We're a technology company that uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology to power products that give customers a more complete look at Internet use and its impact on an organization. Our artificial intelligence technology is unique to Fast Data Technology, and gives us the ability to analyze, categorize cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat and report on data quickly and accurately," said Don Gruidel, Fast Data Technology president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Fast Data Technology's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , FastTracker, an Internet filtering and blocking program, continues to be the cornerstone of the company's technology and product offering. To complement FastTracker, Fast Data Technology now offers Active State's Pure Message as an e-mail filtering tool, allowing organizations to protect themselves from unacceptable e-mails, including spam, viruses and junk mail See spam and junk faxes. . The technology behind FastTracker is driven by patent-pending artificial intelligence content analysis techniques complemented by a URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. list of sites. No other Internet management company offers a similar technology. The process begins by consulting a URL list to see if the requested Web page has been assigned a category previously. If it has not, the artificial intelligence technique analyzes the page's text and dynamically assigns it to one of 60 categories. If the page lacks sufficient text to support categorization, the page is placed into a catch-all miscellaneous category. Human support staff reviews daily the miscellaneous categorizations and assigns those pages to appropriate categories. Likewise, the URL list is reviewed and updated daily, based on what the artificial intelligence technology finds and what the support staff finds. Once the information is categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat , authorized managers and employees connect to the award-winning reporting system to gather and analyze usage. The result is more accurate filtering and blocking of Web sites. Soon, Fast Data Technology will offer its artificial intelligence technology as a text analysis tool for organizations with the need to manage, search, retrieve and organize their own archives of text data quickly. Fast Data Technology clients will be able to customize the technology according to their own search needs. About Fast Data Technology Fast Data Technology is an Internet management company with a suite of products powered by patent-pending artificial intelligence technology. It's products include FastTracker, and Pure Message. This suite of products has proven to help businesses increase productivity, reduce bandwidth drain, improve security and eliminate Internet liability concerns. Fast Data Technology is headquartered in Boulder, Colo. For more information visit www.fastdatatech.com. |
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