Index Engines 3.3, Starting at $85,000

Index Engines Inc. 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, 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."
 
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.