TVAR Solutions and Index Engines Partner

As Federal agencies struggle to organize, locate and trim enterprise data and
associated expenses, TVAR Solutions,
LLC partnered with software company Index
Engines, Inc. to offer file-level analysis software and tape-to-cloud
migration solutions.

The addition of Index Engines’ software to TVAR Solutions’ storage optimization
services enables them to reduce risks and costs within their data center while
complying with regulations governing the data including Freedom of Information
Act Requests, the cloud First Policy and the Federal Data Center Consolidation
Initiative.

"Our clients are continually seeking
solutions that mitigate unnecessary risks, costs and complexity," said
VP of strategy and solutions for TVAR Solutions, Toby Zellers. "The cloud promises all these things, but
only with products like Index Engines’ Catalyst Platform can legacy systems,
and the data tied to those systems, be moved to a cloud infrastructure."

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.

Through this process data can be de-duplicated and culled before moving to the
cloud or another storage platform, effectively eliminating a storage platform
while also reducing the amount of data transferred over.

Federal regulations have made storage costs, capacity and platforms a high
priority for many agencies, but faced with PBs of unstructured storage, it was
difficult to understand what should be migrated and what no longer has value.

"TVAR Solutions is a
forward-thinking company that understands how aged, unstructured data becomes a
liability and unnecessary cost," Index Engines VP David Ballard said. "Partnering with them puts our
technology in the hands of people with the same vision that can solve a lot of
government data problems."

Optionally, Catalyst includes full-text indexing which would allow for keyword
queries on content for to locate FOIA inquiries, unencrypted sensitive files,
key contracts and perform confidential information audits.

In addition, the full-text indexing enables the use of Catalyst for eDiscovery
purposes, which TVAR Solutions also routinely fields. For ESI collection, data
is identified and aggregated from any available source, from online file and
email servers, desktops, forensic images to backup tapes. ESI is captured using
a forensic image of the original content so that metadata is not modified
ensuring defensibility. Once ESI is collected all content can be uniformly
culled, managed and moved to archive.

"Our partnership with Index Engines
is going to be instrumental in moving legacy data into the cloud, keeping
agencies compliant and assisting with litigation proceedings," Zellers
said. "Plus, we can offer these
organizations cost- and time-effective re-platforming of old data."