LAN Engine                                                  

High Speed, Efficient Discovery, Classification and Management of Network Data

Enterprise data networks, including networked attached storage and file servers, contain a large amount of important data.  Understanding and profiling this information is a challenge due to the significant volume and diversity of the content.  It is critical to index this content to gain the insight necessary to implement a solid information management policy.

Index Engines LAN Engine ingests network data more efficiently than other indexing solutions.  LAN Engine is the only commercially available indexing solution that uses either high speed Network Data Management Protocols (NDMP) or multi-threaded NFS/CIFS scanning to scan network data. With Index Engines indexing occurs at speeds several orders of magnitude faster than other indexing approaches. 

The noninvasive NDMP method pushes incremental data to the LAN Engine for indexing, at speeds up to 70 MB per second. The resulting index is generated with a footprint that is only 5 to 8% of the original files. Multi-threaded crawling allows for the processing of data that is not centrally stored on an NDMP enabled file server. With either approach, or using a combination of the two methods, the LAN Engine is optimized to index large data repositories quickly and efficiently in order to improve access and management of network content.

No other solution can index data as efficiently as Index Engines LAN Engine.  The technology is so unique it is patent pending. Contact us today to learn how we can simplify your data discovery and classification needs.

  Applications                                                           

• Storage Optimization – summary reports detailing storage utilization and content based reports, such as duplicate data and security, allow for improved management of storage resources.

• Risk Assessment – understanding the contents of enterprise data allows for early review of sensitive information.  Search network content at any time and determine a course of action based on the results.

• Litigation Support – supporting requests from legal has never been easier.  Simple Boolean keyword and metadata search deliver deterministic results of all files and email. 

• User Productivity – allows users to search for network content according to their security permissions and leverage existing content.

  Features/Functions

• Direct indexing of unstructured files and email via NDMP.  Indexing speeds many times faster than traditional indexing solutions allow for rapid data processing.  (NFS/CIFS support is also available).

• Integration into existing security environment controlling access to sensitive data.

• Full text and metadata indexing provides comprehensive search results.

• “Internet like” query tools using Boolean and metadata search on network content to find and retrieve all relevant files and email.

• Dynamic classification of data based on query.  Execute a query and instantly generate a summary report based on the query result set.

• Comprehensive summary reports providing detailed information about the enterprise data assets in order to support storage optimization and data protection efforts.