HOLMDEL, NJ — March 31, 2009 — Index Engines, providers of the fastest enterprise discovery technology on the market, today announced support for index and search capability up to one billion data objects in a single engine.  Full text and metadata is indexed in 250 million object segments and through a centralized index, allowing a billion objects to be fully queried and extracted within one appliance. Index Engines unmatched discovery capabilities can handle data management for extremely large environments.  This technology allows information management professionals to intelligently manage, store and retrieve electronic information from vast enterprise or government information networks.

 

"Our customers have told us that speed and scale are the critical factors when considering an information management solution," said Jim McGann, Vice President of Marketing for Index Engines. "At Index Engines we have taken this message to heart and have built our indexing platform to keep pace with the volume of data created in very large, global corporations, some storing more data than exists on the Internet. Our flexible platform is compatible with any retention program, and also powerful enough to execute these same policies against enterprise class data centers."

 

Indexing capacity of the Index Engines system of a billion objects is based on a 2U Engine with 6TB of storage.  This metric assumes data with an average object size of 20K (mostly email) and an index footprint of 8%. The average Index Engines index footprint ranges from 4 to 8%.The system’s actual indexing capability far exceeds one billion, but to maintain deterministic query and extraction speeds, only one billion is currently supported.

 

Index Engines 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 70 MB per second, 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.  With either approach, or using a combination of the two methods, Index Engine system, is optimized to index large data repositories quickly and efficiently in order to improve access and management of network content.

 

Index Engines is now taking orders for this solution, delivery scheduled within two weeks. Price and availability are dependant on configuration.

 

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. ###