Start-Up's Profile: Index Engines

Headquarters
Homdel, NJ

Born in
2003

Financial funding
Self-funded

Revenues and profitability
No revenues revealed but the company said to be profitable

Main executives

Tim Williams, CEO: founder of NAS OS company CrosStor Software in 1990 where he served as chairman and CEO, and sold to EMC in November 2000 for $300 million; then for a time EMC VP of storage operating systems for their mid-range division; also an angel investor leading a group that restarts Tacit Networks (sold to Packeteer in 2006) where he was interim CEO; prior to founding CrosStor, a consultant for a variety of computer and telecommunications companies; participated in the development of the Unix OS at Bell Laboratories.
Gordon Harris, co-founder, CTO and VP of product development: served as chairman of Tacit Network’s advisory board; previously worked as VP of NAS advanced development at EMC; co-founder of CrosStor where he served as VP of R&D and CTO; like Williams, was part of Bell Laboratories for the development of Unix
Jim McGann, VP of information discovery: worked for software firms including Information Builders and the French-based engineering software provider Dassault Systèmes; prior to Index Engines was responsible for the business development of Scopeware at Mirror Worlds Technologies.
Sheldon Feinland, VP of sales: formerly senior VP of WW sales at Guidance Software that he joined from Mantas, Clearswift, Whitelight Systems and Comshare.
Ed Moke, VP of product operations: former director of SQA and technical support at CMWare

Number of employees
75

Technology
Enterprise discovery solutions that allow organizations to organize enterprise data assets, making them immediately accessible, searchable and easy to manage. The firm said to reach 1TB per hour in indexing on some NetApp, HP, Data Domain and BlueArc disk platforms. Its product also supports simultaneous indexing of multiple streams of data from backup tapes.

As it processes data, a searchable index is generated containing metadata and content for all common unstructured files and email. This unified index contains information about data residing on backup tapes, networks and large storage file systems to allow for search, de-dupe and extraction of unique content through a single interface. The data is not copied during the process, therefore the index footprint is small – only 4-8% of the original data size. It can index a billion objects per system.

Products
Index Engines Platform

Price
Starting at $175,000

Roadmap
To enable enterprise-class information management and discovery, regardless of format, volume or location.

Strategic partners
Include storage firms EMC, NetApp, BlueArc, Mimosa, CommVault and Quantum

Distributors
BlueRiver IT, FCN Technology Solutions, Assist Legal Technologies, Artemis Technology, ReSoft International

Number of customers
100+

Main customers
News Corp, American Airlines, Kinder Morgan, IRS, Dominion

Applications
Enterprise discovery, litigation support, archiving, records management, compliance, corporate governance, migration, storage optimization

Market
eDiscovery, information discovery

Competitors
StoredIQ, Kazeon (acquired by EMC), RenewData, EMag Solutions