HOLMDEL, NJ — March 5, 2009 — Index Engines, provider of the fastest enterprise discovery technology on the market, was recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in Storage Management. As budgets shrink and litigation continues, storage teams are searching for cost effective ways to handle requests for historical files and email. Gartner believes that Index Engines technology has noteworthy capabilities for eDiscovery applications.

 

Gartner analyst John Morency writes, "Index Engines provides differentiated information discovery and indexing appliances that collectively have the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of e-discovery management, while also improving its efficiency and effectiveness."

 

Index Engines' system allows users to index, deduplicate, search and extract electronically stored information (ESI) across offline tapes, network storage, file shares, forensic images and hard drives via one unified platform and user interface.

 

The Tape Engine directly accesses data from the backup media itself providing significant cost and time savings versus traditional tape restoration methods. The product supports multiple backup formats such as CA ARCserve, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec, as well as EMC NetWorker. The Tape Engine automates the processes of cataloguing, indexing and extracting the data from tape to make it more readily retrievable, if and when the need arises.

 

Index Engines online data collection technology uses either high speed Network Data Management Protocols (NDMP) or multi-threaded NFS/CIFS scanning to index network data.  At speeds several orders of magnitude faster than other indexing approaches, the non-invasive NDMP method pushes incremental data to the Index Engines system for indexing, without making a cache copy of the content or adding any load onto the server. The resulting index is generated at speeds up to 360 GB per hour, with a footprint that is only 4 to 8% of the original files.  Multi-threaded crawling allows for the efficient processing of data that is not centrally stored on an NDMP enabled file server. 

 

Gartner recommends that IT professionals responsible for enterprise eDiscovery efforts take a close look at Index Engines eDiscovery platform. Contact Gartner to read the full Cool Vendor report. www.gartner.com

 

About Index Engines Founded in 2003, Index Engines is the leader in enterprise discovery solutions. Our mission is to organize enterprise data assets, making them immediately accessible, searchable and easy to manage. Businesses today face a significant challenge organizing their files and email to ensure timely and cost efficient access, while also maintaining compliance to regulations governing electronic data. Companies rely on Index Engines solutions for comprehensive insight into their data to simplify information discovery, classification and management.   The patented Index Engines discovery platform is the only solution on the market to offer a complete view of electronic data assets. Online data is indexed in-stream at wire speed in native enterprise storage protocols, enabling high-speed, efficient indexing of proprietary backup and transfer formats.  Index Engines’ unique approach to offline records scans backup tapes, indexes the contents and extracts relevant data, eliminating the time-consuming restoration process.  Index Engines provides the only comprehensive discovery platform across both online and offline data, saving time and money when managing enterprise information.   ###  Index Engines, Power Over Information and Litigation Ready are trademarks or registered trademarks of Index Engines, Inc. All rights reserved. All product names mentioned are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations. ###