Key Challenges                                                

• Enterprises are required to retain and search millions of electronic records—including files, emails and instant messages—for audit and legal discovery. Failure to meet these requirements can expose virtually every operation to lawsuits, investigations, and violations of the privacy rule.

• To support electronic discovery, technology managers must deliver fast access to all relevant electronic evidence. Inability to produce what the courts require on time can lead to fines or punishments. However, it’s difficult to meet deadlines because information is stored in multiple formats and locations—servers, desktops, laptops, data centers, archives and offline tapes.

• Offline tapes present the greatest challenge. They are virtually inaccessible and unsearchable because today’s indexing technologies support online data, but not historical offline data. As a result, it takes enormous IT resources to mount, merge, restore, index and search up to thousands of archive tapes. This effort might also require reinstalling previous software versions to search and access the native tape format.

• The bottom line—electronic discovery is estimated to cost millions of dollars per event due to the volume of electronic records and manual effort required to sort through it all.

The Index Engines Advantage

• Minimizes legal risk by delivering a comprehensive index—including full content, file metadata, security and user attributes. You can rest assured that this deterministic index will enable comprehensive discovery across all platforms and storage devices.

• Saves valuable time and helps avoid late fees and penalties— by providing wire-speed indexing. Each appliance quickly indexes millions of files and emails and multiple appliances can scale to billions. The index can be immediately queried, at Internet speeds, delivering instant access to critical data.

• Fully supports offline tape indexing—and eliminates the massive effort required to restore tape contents. The Index Engines appliance directly connects to tape drives to index archive tape contents and turn them into a searchable repository. Index Engines understands native tape formats so there is no need to restore the tapes contents in order to generate the index. Tape contents are immediately searchable, both full content and metadata.

• Finds everything—by indexing full content and metadata of all important information across the enterprise. The resulting index only consumes 5 percent of original data size with no data copies. This efficient indexing platform is scalable to billions of documents and can meet your company’s discovery needs now and in the future.