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Index Engines to Supply Enterprise Indexing For COPAN’s Persistent Data Storage Architecture

Holmdel, NJ – September 18, 2006 - Index Engines, the leader in next-generation enterprise-wide indexing solutions, today announced a development partnership with COPAN Systems that will extend the functionality of COPAN’s Persistent Data Storage Architecture to include Index Engines’ groundbreaking inline indexing technology.

The agreement brings together two storage industry innovators that together have redefined storage scalability. When the COPAN solution integrating the Index Engines technology is released, IT managers will have an unprecedented, highly-scalable toolset to more effectively and efficiently manage massive amounts of storage. The offering will deliver simple and powerful search capabilities enabling end users to quickly and easily find what they need from backup and archive data in order to improve productivity.

“Enterprise storage has entered the ‘age of content’ where data that was previously archived to offline storage is now maintained in online storage tiers to support operational, legal and compliance requirements. These vast data repositories make fast, scalable data indexing more important than ever. It makes little sense to keep this data online if users have no effective method to find what they’re looking for,” said Mark Ward, CEO of COPAN Systems. “This massive data growth demands vast scalability from both the storage hardware platform and the data indexing technology. The ability to excel in terms of enterprise-class scalability and the ability to rapidly and efficiently index billions of customer files was a critical factor in the selection of Index Engines.”

“COPAN Systems is an ideal partner. We are both focused on the key challenge of maximizing the accessibility of data in the enterprise,” said Tim Williams, CEO of Index Engines. “This relationship will allow COPAN’s customers to seamlessly add unmatched indexing functionality to their MAID solutions and help them derive more value from their archival data repositories.”

The Index Engines inline indexing platform re-architects enterprise discovery by shifting the indexing of unstructured data off the overburdened data network and onto the storage network, where file and email are collected and archived using existing backup procedures. A solution that sits inline on the storage network, relying on this network to find updated data, eliminates the complexities inherent with traditional enterprise search solutions. The inherent performance and scalability make Index Engines one of the best indexing solutions available when combined with the capacity and performance of COPAN’s Revolution 200 series of products.

Index Engines solutions bring unprecedented benefits to enterprise indexing and search functions, including:

Wire speed indexing performance of up to 2 Gb/sec
Highly efficient indexing with support for up to 64 million objects per node
Massive scalability with aggregation of up to 64 nodes to support over 4 billion objects
Ability to leverage customer’s existing security infrastructure with integration into Active Directory and/or NIS domains
Open architecture with APIs that allow full access into all aspects of the index and a fully customizable design for flexibility with ingestion and query protocols, allowing developers to build Information Classification Management (ICM) applications
Lifecycle Aware with an index that tracks multiple versions of documents

For more information on Index Engines inline enterprise indexing products contact the company at (732) 817-1060.

About Copan Systems
COPAN Systems is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class, enhanced MAID storage solutions that unlock the value of long-term data. The company is led by storage industry veterans from Hitachi Data Systems, Sun/StorageTek, Dell, HP/Compaq, EMC, and others, and is privately held with investments by Austin Ventures, Globespan Capital, Pequot Ventures, and Credit Suisse. COPAN Systems’ storage solutions have been shipping since March 2004, with customers spanning the healthcare, financial, government, media, and service provider industries. More information is available at http://www.copansys.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 patent-pending 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.

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