HOLMDEL, NJ — August 18, 2011 — Index Engines today announced their cloud services were integral to the recent success of a significant electronic discovery project executed by Innovative Discovery, a full-service e-discovery provider with offices in Washington D.C. and New York City. Index Engines’ cloud-based tape load service provides a convenient and cost effective access to tape data for eDiscovery.

 

Innovative Discovery, an Index Engines partner, was faced with an eDiscovery challenge. The dataset consisted of 464 DLT backup tapes with 21 terabytes of information, including 350 million total files (of which 223.9 million alone were email) from 2400 custodians. The dataset comprised nearly 10 years of corporate electronically stored information. Using Index Engines’ cloud services, Innovative Discovery reduced the haystack down to 7 custodians; indexed, culled and tagged the data; and extracted the 81GB of relevant data, all in 25 days. Innovative Discovery is a current Index Engines partner, however they called on the Index Engines cloud service to assist with this job because of the scale and demanding timeframes.

 

Joseph Martinez, VP of Electronic Discovery and Computer Forensics at Innovative Discovery, explains, “Our client was receiving quotes from other traditional tape processing providers in the millions of dollars to identify a small number of custodians. With Index Engines’ cloud services, the results were 10 to 20 times more affordable. The results were excellent and even exceeded our already-high expectations. With Index Engines’ cloud services, we got exactly what we wanted at a price and timeframe the client could afford.”

 

Innovative Discovery began with Index Engines’ Look & Learn service which provides clients with full access to the index of their tape data without the need to install any hardware or software. Then, Index Engines automatically de-duplicated and deNISTed the 21 TB of data down to 7.84 terabytes—a 63% reduction. After that, Innovative Discovery used the cloud based culling interface to cull and tag the relevant 7 custodians (reduced from the initial 2400), eliminating the irrelevant files down to .19% of the initial total dataset. Finally, Index Engines extracted less than 1% of the initial total data for further processing and web-based hosting for attorney review. Index Engines’ cloud services performed the entire tape discovery in 25 days, well within the requirements of the job.

 

Jim McGann, VP of Information Discovery at Index Engines, adds, “Cloud services represent a major paradigm shift in the way that this type of data gets processed. The cloud services provide an affordable, fast and accurate method to extract litigation-relevant information for both service providers and corporate clients. We are proud to have an excellent relationship with Innovative Discovery and are pleased that our technology proved essential to this demanding project.”

 

About Index Engines

Founded in 2003, Index Engines is the leader in enterprise discovery solutions. 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. For more information on Index Engines, please visit http://www.indexengines.com or subscribe to our Power Over Information blog.

 

About Innovative Discovery

Innovative Discovery (ID) is a comprehensive provider of legal document management solutions. ID’s services include evidence capture consulting and computer forensics, electronic document discovery (EDD), hosting of electronic documents, on-line review, scanning, coding, litigation copying, and trial graphics. ID’s mission is to provide consistent, high-quality litigation support solutions. We have invested in the best technologies available and recruited some of the industry’s top professionals to realize this end. Despite the many complexities involved in providing solutions to our clientele, our ultimate success can be reduced to three simple principles; Quality, Capacity, and Customer Service. For more information, please visit: http://www.id-edd.com/.