Law Firm DLA Piper Chooses Index Engines

Index Engines, in enterprise discovery solutions, today announced that DLA Piper, a global legal services organization, has chosen Index Engines Tape Engine to bring the discovery and collection of data on backup tape in house. By performing these services the firm will be providing a faster, more secure, process of finding electronic data contained on offline tape archives in support for their clients’ litigation events.

“Index Engines technology allows us to provide market leading eDiscovery services to our clients,” states Mary Pat Poteet, Director of Litigation Support from DLA Piper. “In past cases, dealing with data on tape was complex and slow.  Now that we have brought the Tape Engine in house, we will be able to automate the process of finding data on tape without the need to outsource to third party forensic experts.”

As a leading international law firm, DLA Piper is always seeking ways to better serve their clients’ needs. By choosing to provide discovery services for data on backup tape, DLA is enabling their clients to save money, reduce risk and access relevant case data faster and more effectively. Excellent litigation support is a key differentiator for the firm. Using the Tape Engine to index, search and extract data from backup tapes, rather than rely on eDiscovery vendors for tape restoration is part of DLA’s distinction.

“Litigation support professionals know best how to build and execute effective queries when searching for digital evidence,” said Jim McGann, VP of Marketing for Index Engines. “DLA Piper is leveraging this knowledge, by enabling their litigation support team to perform tape discovery in-house. With this direct approach, the firm is providing corporate clients a more controlled and secure environment to access evidence contained on backup tapes.”

Index Engines Tape Engine is an appliance that automates the process of searching and extracting data from offline tapes without the original backup software. Using the Tape Engine, offline tapes are directly indexed and the data is immediately searchable. Users can quickly find what they need, restoring only relevant files and email, rather than restoring the entire tape contents, indexing the data, and then commencing the search process.  No other solution can directly index tape content allowing for full text and metadata search.