Index Engines Solutions
Tackling the Data Discovery Challenge

Enterprise organizations generate large volumes of information every day – some of it valuable, but much of it becomes unessential over time. Discovering, storing and organizing the relevant information, allowing it to be leveraged in order to make more informed decisions, is a huge challenge. 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), Sarbanes-Oxley, and other recent regulations mandate how electronically stored information (ESI) such as contracts, spreadsheets and email are handled internally, and more importantly produced to the courts when required.  This is driving the need for a comprehensive IT Discovery solution.

The spread of data across desktops, networked servers, backup tapes and other various storage devices, adds to the complexity of the project. But when done thoroughly, with capable technology, enterprise IT discovery will alleviate much of the risk and expense corporations are shouldering from keeping so much unneeded data around. A comprehensive indexing process also enables the collection of relevant data in support of legal and records management initiatives.

The Unified Discovery Platform

Index Engines takes a fresh approach for discovery of all ESI in the enterprise. The Index Engines platform integrates high speed indexing into existing infrastructure that is non-invasive and highly efficient.  Terabytes of data on network file servers can be processed at unprecedented speeds – up to 1 Tb/hr/node.  Only Index Engines makes information locked away on historical backup tapes easily accessible - without the need to restore the content. Even data on user desktops, or contained in forensic images can be easily discovered and collected.  One platform seamlessly indexes, searches and separates the relevant content from the mass of enterprise data, regardless of location, format or age.

As Index Engines processes data, a searchable index is generated containing rich metadata and content for all common unstructured files and email.  This unified index contains information about data residing on backup tapes, networks and large storage file systems to allow for search, deduplication and extraction of unique content through a single interface.  The data is not copied during the indexing process, therefore the index footprint is remarkably small - only 4-8% of the original data size. No other solution has the depth and breadth of discovery across the enterprise. One Index Engine can index over a billion objects per system.