Index Engines Launches First Search, Classification & Management Platform Spanning both Primary and Secondary Storage

Platform Delivers Comprehensive Wire Speed Indexing Of Enterprise Data Throughout Its Lifecycle In Support Of Discovery, Compliance, Classification, ILM and Other Critical Business Initiatives

San Diego, CA - Storage Networking World, Booth C16 - April 4, 2006 - Index Engines, developer of indexing solutions for the enterprise, today announced a significant upgrade to their enterprise indexing platform. Version 2.0 extends unstructured data indexing to include secondary storage and boosts processing speeds to an unprecedented 2 Gigabits per second wire speeds. This new release effectively indexes information throughout its lifecycle as it is backed up, replicated, snapshoted, archived, or vaulted, for more comprehensive search, classification and management of data enterprise wide. Version 2.0 of the Index Engines platform will be launched at Storage Networking World in San Diego on April 4, 2006 and is available immediately for early access clients and generally available on April 28, 2006.

As data move through the storage network, from primary to secondary storage, it becomes more and more difficult to find and access due to the enormous volume and complexity of this content. Multiple historical versions of files, along with no standard access protocols makes managing and retrieving archived data across the enterprise nearly impossible. In fact, 90% of archived data is rarely accessed even though this data can be critical to productivity and regulatory efforts. Comprehensive indexing of this content, regardless of where it resides in its lifecycle, is the foundation of all data search, classification and management efforts across the enterprise. According to a recent report from the Taneja Group, a leading industry analyst and consulting firm, “an intelligently deployed indexing scheme adds an entirely new dimension of informational control to the IT arsenal…we believe that within the next 24 months, content indexing will emerge as an expected standard feature for any enterprise information management architecture”.

Previous versions of the Index Engines solution supported indexing of primary storage data. With Version 2.0, files residing in secondary storage, even backup tapes, are fully indexed allowing comprehensive discovery of this data across the enterprise. In order to deliver discovery capabilities enterprise wide, Index Engines Version 2.0 provides scalability on the order of billions of files, historical indexing of data throughout its lifecycle, integration with all major storage protocols, and wire speed indexing so that data is processed in a timely manner. No other solution on the market can match the indexing capabilities contained in this new version.

“Secondary storage represents the overwhelming majority of data in the enterprise, however due to it’s inaccessibility it is typically never accessed and its value never leveraged by crucial business applications”, said Tim Williams, Index Engines CEO. “With this new version we create an integrated view of data across both primary and secondary storage providing the simplified access and comprehensive intelligence required by today’s demanding business initiatives.”

Index Engines Version 2.0 Features
Version 2.0 contains the following new features:

• Historical Indexing – Index Engines can now index throughout the lifecycle of data. As data is archived from primary storage it is fully indexed. The index is comprised of comprehensive metadata and full text content of all archive data and is accessible via a web based GUI or API’s. Users can perform simple keyword and metadata search across billions of files in order to find files from previous generations. Retention policies for the index can be defined so that they coincide with existing archives ensuring the index is in synch with the archive data.
• Classification – Version 2.0 introduces new dynamic reporting capabilities for the improved management and utilization of data assets. Reports, based on hundreds of millions of documents, are built “on the fly” in sub-second response time using metadata extracted during the indexing process. Reports include a listing of files according to size, last access date, creation & modification date, owner, and location. All reports are generated in real time and can additionally be filtered using keywords in order to further drill down into the content.
• Deep Storage Integration – The Index Engines platform understands all common storage protocols and can ingest data from any storage environment. With this new version data residing on primary storage as well as data that is replicated, snapshoted, archived or vaulted can now be indexed. Indexing is flexible enough to sit in band or out of band in order to access data.
• Backup Tape Indexing – Data that resides on tapes in backup format can now be fed directly and indexed without the need to restore the contents. Using a tape dump command the indexing of tape data is performed quickly and painlessly. This allows keyword search in order to determine the file location on tape without the need for a restore, significantly simplifying the recovery process.
• Enterprise Wide Scalability – a single 1U version of the Index Engines appliance with 1 TB of storage can perform full metadata and text content indexing of up to 64 million files. 64 appliances can also be clustered in order to support environments in the range of 4 billion files. No other solution can scale efficiently to this size and provide “Internet like”, sub-second response time for search and reporting.
• Wire Speed Indexing – Version 2.0 of the Index Engines solution introduces 2 Gigabits per second indexing through the use of dual core, dual processor appliances. With these speeds wire speed indexing is maintained in order to keep up with data streams from even the most highly performant VTL devices resulting in minimal latency (less than 5%) during the archive process.

Availability and Pricing
Version 2.0 of the Index Engines platform will be launched at Storage Networking World in San Diego on April 4, 2006 and is available immediately for early access clients and generally available on April 28, 2006. Prices start at $29,500 for an environment consisting of 2 million documents.