CopperEye: Speedy Stuff
December 10, 2010
I came across CopperEye several years ago. I was looking for a solution that would cope with large volumes of data, mainframe and client server hardware, and specific performance requirements. CopperEye met the specs. In London last week, I engaged in a conversation and learned that CopperEye was not widely known in the more traditional search and retrieval field. The purpose of this write up is to provide some basic information about the company. In a nutshell, the firm offers a system that can discover, parse and index data in a relational database or flat file output. The method can handle “big data”. (A video demo is available on YouTube.)
In 2007, In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, signed a deal for a strategic investment in CopperEye. In that 2007 announcement, an In-Q-Tel spokesperson said:
We selected CopperEye because it offers superior technology in the area of the retention and retrieval of structured, historical data,” said Troy M. Pearsall, Executive Vice President of Technology Transfer at In-Q-Tel. “Given the volume of information gathered by organizations within the public and private sectors, it made perfect sense to invest in an innovative data access technology that will potentially meet the critical needs of the U.S. Intelligence Community. We look forward to working with CopperEye in the coming months and years.”
Based on the information in my Overflight system, CopperEye is privately held. Now about 10 years old, the company provides enterprise class archiving solutions, including compliance archiving. The firm’s search product is called CopperEye Search. The Greenwich product uses standard SQL to retrieve records from log files. the Secure Data Retrieval Server is an an appliance that complies with with data retention regulations. the CopperEye Indexing function is optimized for high speed.
The current version Retrieval Server includes features improved compression The compression introduces no latency while yielding more efficient storage and reduced disc accesses. The system has been engineered for high availability. When deployed as a distributed system, queries operate as though the data set were a single environment. One interesting feature is that the system can be configured to process queries as parallel, failover or round robin methods.
The CEO of the firm is Carmen Carey. The founders are Paul McCafferty (COO) and Duncan Pauly. You can get more information about the company at www.coppereye.com.
Stephen E Arnold, December 10, 2010
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