Index Engines Establishes Advisory Board Anchored by Industry Veterans

Industry Leaders to Guide Business and Product Development for Enterprise-Class Data Discovery Solutions

Storage Network World, Orlando FL. – November 1, 2006 - Index Engines, the leader in next-generation enterprise-wide indexing solutions, announced today that it has formed an all-star advisory board with industry pundits with backgrounds at EMC, Network Appliance, CommVault and Copan Systems. The newly formed board will provide guidance and counsel in new product development, strategic partnerships and sales and marketing initiatives to further establish Index Engines as a driving force in enterprise-class data discovery solutions.

Index Engines’ advisory board members are proven leaders in the design, development and marketing of high-performance IT products for the enterprise space. Board members include former chief technology officer for EMC, Jim Rothnie; Andy Watson, CTO Strategic Technology for Network Appliance, Inc.; Al Bunte, COO from CommVault and Mark Ward, CEO from COPAN Systems.

“Truly thorough deep content indexing is urgently needed to cope with the staggering quantities of unstructured terabyte-scale information flooding corporate data centers,” said Andy Watson, CTO Strategic Technology for Network Appliance. “Performance bottlenecks, bloated index overhead, and spurious search hits have stymied progress for years. But Index Engines runs at wire speed, and produces a space-efficient index that delivers the highest quality search results. Their product is so consummately revolutionary that it belongs in a category all by itself.”

Over the past year, Index Engines has strengthened its position, announcing the first inline indexing platform spanning both primary and secondary storage; strengthening strategic relationships; increasing its list of targeted industry integrators; and steadily growing revenue with a growing list of customer engagements. Index Engines’ will seek counsel from its advisory board to accelerate development of next-generation products and to strengthen market traction.

“As the technology leader in enterprise indexing and eDiscovery, there are exciting opportunities that Index Engines is geared to take advantage of,” said Jim Rothnie, former CTO at EMC. “I look forward to building on the successes that the company has already achieved to help take Index Engines to the next level.”

“Index Engines’ advisory board represents top notch veterans that have solid success in delivering world-class products,” said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst for Taneja Group. “The creation of an advisory board is a significant milestone for the company as it continues to evolve its indexing and eDiscovery solutions for customers who need to rapidly identify their data assets for compliance and legal discovery.

"We will leverage the wealth and diversity of this unparalleled team to help us to continue to create the best of breed product for the market,” said Tim Williams, CEO, Index Engines. “We intend to work closely with these leaders and harvest the strategic value of their insight to expand our global reach and provide superior enterprise data indexing.”