Everpure Acquires 1touch, Extending Data Management Roadmap
Editorial Update (May 11, 2026): Everpure (NYSE: P) has completed its acquisition of 1touch, an innovator in data intelligence and orchestration. This post has been updated to reflect the completion of the transaction.
The enterprise is just beginning to grasp the gap between what their data is and what it needs to become to be truly “AI ready.”
The technology landscape, driven by AI, is advancing at a breakneck pace, creating an insatiable demand for collecting, processing, and understanding data. However, just working with data without context greatly limits its utility and value. Understanding how and when a piece of data was generated, what it represents in a business context, and how it relates to other data makes each piece of information imminently more useful.
The path between most raw business data and actionable insights or outcomes requires an understanding of its context or meaning. For example, “20%” is a datapoint, but what does it represent? Is it “20% revenue growth projection?” “20% on-time shipments?” or “20% customer churn?” Regardless of how data is being used—whether for traditional approaches or prepared for AI—understanding data in context is necessary to reach the right conclusions.
Traditional approaches to managing and processing data incorporate and provide this context within the confines of business software (e.g., ERP or CRM systems). However, with newer, AI-enabled technologies and the need to connect and correlate across greater and more diverse sets of data, surfacing, understanding, and managing the context and meaning of data has become critical to success.
Across industries and applications—whether in high-stakes research, medicine, or finance—if AI outputs are derived from faulty premises or data is interpreted out of context, the results are unpredictable. It is more than just “garbage in, garbage out” at scale; it is opening the door to genuine threats.
Beyond Infrastructure
For decades, storage providers focused on managing hardware. We recognized early on that the challenge was shifting. As our CEO Charles Giancarlo explained, we modernized the old world of storage—static, siloed, and manual—into a new world of dataset and workload management through a unified, mobile, automated, and policy-driven data plane.
One of our guiding principles has always been Evergreen®, delivering technology that is always improving, ultimately flexible and adaptable, and free from obsolescence. The timing of our rebrand to Everpure™, and our acquisition of 1touch* is no accident. Everpure reflects what we’ve accomplished and where we’re headed on our journey to data management.
And 1touch is the declaration of our next step.
From Data Management to Data Intelligence
Powerful enterprise AI rests on extracting data context across the broadest range of datasets. To become actionable information, data needs a foundational ontology—the properties and attributes that define what data is and how it relates to the world. This context cannot come from fixed systems with rigid rules, but rather from systems that can continuously integrate new knowledge.
1touch will bridge the gap between managing datasets and managing information, and the Everpure unified data plane will provide the stepping stone for 1touch to turn raw data into actionable knowledge. Today, 1touch excels at data security and posture management (DSPM). With this combination, 1touch will act as an AI multiplier through three core pillars:
- Continuous discovery: Finding and connecting heterogeneous data across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS environments in real time.
- AI-Driven classification and ontology: 1touch uses AI and ML to define broad data relationships, creating a business-aware ontology that evolves continuously.
- The knowledge graph: A semantic layer and relational map of data that provides the context to choose appropriate data, preventing “dumb” AI.
Applied Intelligence
What does this mean for data leaders and infrastructure administrators?
The chief data officer: 1touch will provide a clear path to make data AI ready. Leaders can determine exactly what to profile, train, and build; identify gaps in data quality; and trigger automated workflows. They can eliminate “shadow data” by identifying ownership and enable data monetization through metered services.
Data and storage administrators: 1touch will provide actionable visibility into the entire data estate to solve the challenge and risks of sprawl. It answers critical questions: How many copies of this data exist? Where can I consolidate data? Where does data violate sovereignty policies? Admins can set reliable policy, data reduce, and eliminate risks and costs.
Organizations are investing heavily in their AI future, and they cannot afford substandard outcomes. They want data integrity and reliable information, including AI that sees what they miss and filters what should not be included. They want the knowledge that leads to breakthroughs in medicine, manufacturing, and market-defining innovation.
While many in our space are still adding management layers to a fragmented portfolio of aging infrastructure, we are building a data intelligence layer on an Evergreen foundation. Everpure solved conventional storage and then unified operations. Now, with 1touch, we will solve for data management at the level of the data itself, helping organizations tame data complexity and turn it into valuable knowledge, so they, and not their AI, control their destiny.