Innovative Discovery Uses Index Engines Cloud Services

Index Engines, Inc. announced their cloud services were integral to the recent success of a significant
electronic discovery project executed by Innovative Discovery, a full-service e-discovery
provider with offices in Washington D.C. and New
York City.

Index Engines’ cloud-based tape load service provides a convenient and cost
effective access to tape data for eDiscovery.

Innovative Discovery, an Index Engines partner, was faced
with an eDiscovery challenge. The
dataset consisted of 464 DLT backup tapes with 21 terabytes of information,
including 350 million total files (of which 223.9 million alone were email)
from 2,400 custodians. The dataset
comprised nearly 10 years of corporate electronically stored information.  Using Index Engines’ cloud services,
Innovative Discovery reduced the haystack down to 7 custodians; indexed, culled
and tagged the data; and extracted the 81GB of relevant data, all in 25
days. Innovative Discovery is a current
Index Engines partner, however they called on the Index Engines cloud service
to assist with this job because of the scale and demanding timeframes.

Joseph Martinez, VP of Electronic Discovery and Computer
Forensics at Innovative Discovery, explains: "Our client was receiving
quotes from other traditional tape processing providers in the millions of
dollars to identify a small number of custodians. With Index Engines’ cloud services, the
results were 10 to 20 times more affordable. The results were excellent and even exceeded our already-high
expectations. With Index Engines’ cloud
services, we got exactly what we wanted at a price and timeframe the client
could afford."

Innovative Discovery began with Index Engines’ Look &
Learn service which provides clients with full access to the index of their
tape data without the need to install any hardware or software. Then, Index Engines automatically
de-duplicated and deNISTed the 21 TB of data down to 7.84 terabytes – a 63%
reduction. After that, Innovative Discovery used the cloud based culling
interface to cull and tag the relevant 7 custodians (reduced from the initial
2,400), eliminating the irrelevant files down to 661.8K files, or .19% of the
initial total dataset. Finally, Index
Engines less than 1% of the initial total data for further processing and
web-based hosting for attorney review.
Index Engines’ cloud services performed the entire tape discovery in 25
days, well within the requirements of the job.

Jim McGann, VP of Information Discovery at Index Engines,
adds: "Cloud services represent a major paradigm shift in the way that
this type of data gets processed. The
cloud services provide an affordable, fast and accurate method to extract
litigation-relevant information for both service providers and corporate
clients. We are proud to have an excellent relationship with Innovative
Discovery and are pleased that our technology proved essential to this
demanding project."