New Index Engines Release Powers Efficient Processing of Large Volumes of Enterprise Data

October 5, 2010

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Platform streamlines indexing for fast, easy, and cost-effective enterprise data discovery

HOLMDEL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Index Engines, the leader in enterprise discovery technology, today announced the latest release of its unified discovery platform with functionality to enhance the performance of large scale data discovery for the enterprise. Generally available starting today, Index Engines 3.3 release includes automated restart features for LAN indexing and backup tape extraction to ensure uninterrupted collection of electronically stored information (ESI) in the enterprise. Also included in this release is the availability of distributed deduplication of extracted ESI, allowing for multiple Index Engines to process data and coordinate the extraction of content so that only unique files and email are collected. These new features allow users more control over the indexing process and increase the efficiency of the search and extraction of enterprise class discovery efforts.

When processing large volumes of enterprise data over a network Index Engines utilizes NFS/CIFS to crawl content at speeds of 1TB/hour per node. New features have been added to automate the discovery of network locations, including servers and desktops, making the discovery process more complete. If the job is interrupted as these network locations are crawled, Index Engines now automates the restart of the job for continuous Index creation. For backup tapes automated restart of extraction jobs has been added to guard against interrupted processing caused by faulty tape libraries or corrupt tapes. Together these features eliminate interruption in the indexing of network data or in collection of ESI from tape.

Also noteworthy in the Index Engines 3.3 release is the elimination of duplicate data when extracting content from a distributed environment. This further streamlines the collection process and manages ESI so that redundant data is not captured. Typical large scale discovery projects will employ multiple Index Engines appliances to process large network data environments, as well as offline tape. When using Index Engines in a distributed environment, extraction results are now unique.

“As enterprises become more litigation ready, they are proactively processing larger volumes of ESI,” said Jim McGann, Vice President of Information Discovery at Index Engines. “Index Engines is committed to supporting this class of project by delivering the most efficient and cost effective discovery platform on the market.”

Other noteworthy features of this Index Engines release include:

Discovery of scanned PDFs to identify suspect documents that were created via a scanning process and were not OCR’ed.
Extraction of email to MSG format
Automated tagging of ESI based on stored queries
New hardware platform with 16 core processors and 72 GB of index storage

Index Engines Unified Discovery platform supports indexing of backup data at 1 TB/hr/node. This performance has been validated on all major enterprise data storage platforms including NetApp, HP, Data Domain, EMC Celerra and BlueArc. The Index Engines platform supports index and search capabilities up to one billion data objects in a single engine. The average Index Engines index footprint ranges from 4 to 8%. Base price for the Index Engines platform is $85,000. Orders are now being accepted, with shipments within four weeks of the order date.

About Index Engines

Founded in 2003, Index Engines is the leader in enterprise discovery solutions. Our mission is to organize enterprise data assets, making them immediately accessible, searchable and easy to manage. Businesses today face a significant challenge organizing their files and email to ensure timely and cost efficient access, while also maintaining compliance to regulations governing electronic data. Companies rely on Index Engines for comprehensive insight into their data to simplify information discovery, classification and management.

The patented Index Engines discovery platform is the only solution on the market to offer a complete view of electronic data assets. Online data is indexed in-stream at wire speed in native enterprise storage protocols, enabling high-speed, efficient indexing of proprietary backup and transfer formats. Index Engines’ unique approach to offline records scans backup tapes, indexes the contents and extracts relevant data, eliminating the time-consuming restoration process. Index Engines provides the only comprehensive discovery platform across both online and offline data, saving time and money when managing enterprise information.

For more information on Index Engines, please visit http://www.indexengines.com.

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