Jtek and Index Engines Partner

A more efficient, cost-effective storage management solution is headed to
Washington DC as JTEK Data Solutions LLC
partnered with software company Index
Engines, Inc. to offer tape remediation, unstructured data profiling and
specialized cloud migration solutions.

The addition of Index Engines’ solutions
to JTEK’s arsenal of storage optimization services enables the transfer of data
to the cloud from legacy backup tapes to become simpler, quicker and more
secure.

"Between the cloud First Policy and
the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, we’re seeing a dire need for
agencies to understand what data they have and efficiently migrate it,"
said Jody Ferguson, JTEK VP. "Index Engines’ enables us to offer our
clients a way to avoid costly tape restoration and directly access tape, making
what would have taken months a few days or a few week process. They effectively took months off
the migration process and gave us a tool to make tape searchable and something
we can run analytics on."

Index Engines offers a patented Catalyst Platform where tapes and all forms of
storage and unstructured document types are analyzed and the user is provided a
searchable ‘map’ of the type of information that exists, where it is located,
who owns it, when it was last accessed or modified.

The process relies on an enterprise index of metadata from user files and email
databases such as last modified or accessed time, number of duplicates, size,
owner, location, file type, and more.

Optionally, it can include full text indexing which would allow for keyword
queries on content such as eDiscovery requests and confidential information
audits for those concerned with Freedom of Information Act requests or security
risks.

"Catalyst offers a great deal of
flexibility whether the goal is to avoid restoration, move only valuable data
during a migration or looking for a specific file set," Index Engines
VP David Ballard, said. "Partnering
this technology with JTEK, who is one of the thought leaders in the IT
optimization space was a perfect fit. We’re looking forward to growing our
relationship with them."

Index Engines also hedges another migration challenge for enterprise storage,
switching backup platforms. A proponent of appliance-based backup, JTEK works
exclusively with EMC and VMware backup platforms and often faces the challenge
of organizations looking to retire IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec’s
NetBackup, or Commvault’s Simpana.

The Catalyst Catalog Engine allows companies to retire old
platforms while maintaining access to legacy tapes.

"The relationship between Index
Engines and JTEK is extremely important as we design solutions for our
customers. The relationship helps JTEK bridge the gap between legacy backup
solutions and Next Generation Backup Solutions from EMC," Ferguson
said. "We’ve been very impressed with
Index Engines’ capabilities, dedicated service, simple on boarding and, of
course, the ROI that they provide to our customers. We’ve identified the need
and now we have the solution."

A number of Federal regulations have made storage costs, capacity and platforms
a high priority for many agencies, but faced with petabyte of unstructured storage,
it was previously an uphill battle.

"The trouble you have with these
regulations is how do you manage information when you don’t know what
information exists or where it exists," Ballard said. "Index Engines’ technology has the ability to
understand data while only creating a 1% footprint and JTEK has the service and
knowledge to implement it within our government."