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Index Engines Adds Tape Sorting and Object Extraction to Its Tape Engine

Index Engines, in
enterprise discovery solutions, announced the eDiscovery Edition of
its Tape Engine which includes new features to automate the eDiscovery
process for offline tape content. The eDiscovery Edition makes enterprise
litigation readiness a reality by automating tape data sorting and object
extraction – eliminating the time consuming and expensive process of
restoring tapes in order to begin discovery. Using patent-pending
technology, the Index Engines Edition directly indexes data on offline tapes
without ever restoring it. As a result, corporate legal teams can now
instantly search the metadata as well as full text content of
difficult-to-access data archives and extract the relevant files and email
in order to respond quickly to litigation requests and to mitigate risk.

Many companies have volumes and volumes of unsearchable data locked in
proprietary tape backup formats that they have accumulated over time or
through mergers and acquisitions
,” said Jeffrey Fehrman, president,
Electronic Evidence Labs, a division of ONSITE3. “The tremendous risk of the
unknown contents of this data has prompted many organizations to wisely
implement proactive litigation readiness processes. However, the discovery
of this archived data on offline tapes is extremely costly and time
consuming. The Index Engines eDiscovery solution unlocks this data without
the time and expense of restoring each backup tape to search it. As a
result, companies can now ensure litigation readiness through an automated
approach that is both cost effective and fast.”

Index Engines Enterprise eDiscovery Edition is the only solution on the
market that can directly index offline tape content and make it fully
searchable without having to restore the tapes. This platform understands
common tape backup formats (ArcServe, TSM, NetBackup, Backup Exec, and
NetWorker) and directly indexes unstructured files and email, even back five
to 10 years. Once this data is indexed, it is immediately searchable in
order to find relevant content enabling companies to quickly find “smoking
guns” in minutes or hours rather than days, weeks or even months.

The Index Engines Enterprise eDiscovery Edition includes the following
new features to automate the offline tape discovery process:
Tape Library Support: The use of libraries in
litigation support is critical due to the large volumes of tapes that
have been generated over time, or inherited through mergers and
acquisitions. The use of individual tape drives to support discovery
projects is not practical. Index Engines solution supports all common
tape libraries for the ingestion of the large volumes of offline tape
data. Tape libraries are connected to the Index Engines appliance via a
SCSI or fibre channel connection and an auto-configure utility
recognizes the specifications of the library and its internal tape
management software in order to automate the cataloging and indexing of
tape cartridges.
Tape Management
Utility:
Offline tapes are typically not well organized or even
labeled, so it is difficult to know the proper order of tapes when
inserting them into a tape library. The Index Engines platform contains
a new tape management module that automatically generates a catalog of
the tapes loaded in a library. Once a catalog is generated indexing will
occur across all tapes in the library in a logical fashion, or on backup
sets selected from the catalog.
Automated Extraction Module: Retrieving relevant
content from tape requires that the contents first be restored using the
original backup software used to generate the tape. In many cases, the
backup software may no longer be available, making this a complicated
process. Email adds another layer of complexity because full mailboxes
or databases must be extracted before having access to relevant emails.
The Index Engines platform automates the process of restoring relevant
tape data. Following a simple metadata and/or content search to
determine the relevant content, files and/or email can be selected and
extracted from tape without using the original backup software. The
Index Engines solution eliminates the need for the original backup
software application and enables companies to only restore relevant
content versus significant volumes of useless data.

  • With this new version our enterprise clients can now proactively address
    the liability contained in their offline tapes without having to spend
    $1,800 per gigabyte to process tapes
    ,” said Jim McGann, vice president of
    marketing, Index Engines. “Automation of the complete process, from managing
    tapes to ripping the relevant data off these tapes, is now practical.

The Index Engines Enterprise eDiscovery Platform available now with
pricing starting at $50,000. The new Extraction Module is available as an
add-on to the core product at a price of $25,000.

Index Engines

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