Index Engines Speeds eDiscovery

By Greg McNevin

November 23, 2007: eDiscovery specialist Index Engines has launched a new edition of its Tape Engine, promising new ways to automate the eDiscovery process for offline tape content.

Aptly called the eDiscovery Edition, Index Engine says the new device makes enterprise litigation readiness a breeze by automating tape data sorting and object extraction. It claims this eliminates the time consuming and expensive process of restoring tapes in order to begin discovery.

The engine directly indexes data on offline tapes without restoring it, enabling corporate legal teams to instantly search metadata as well as full text content of company data archives.

The company claims its solution is the only one on the market that can directly index offline tape content and make it fully searchable. The platform understands common tape backup formats such as ArcServe, TSM, NetBackup, Backup Exec, and NetWorker, and directly indexes unstructured files and email, even as far as five to 10 years back.

Index Engine says that once this data is indexed, it is immediately searchable in order to find relevant content enabling companies to quickly find “smoking guns” in minutes or hours rather than days, weeks or even months.

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