Search Appliances for Archive Searching

May 23, 2011

“Index Engines Extends e-Discovery Appliance to Data Domain” reminded us that appliances, archives, search, and e-discovery are best friends forever. Archives are a hassle. Who knows what’s on a back up? Who knows which version is the “right” version? Who knows how to span paper, tape, near line, offline, online, and cloud repositories? The answer, which may irritate you, is, “No one.”

Companies like Index Engines and EMC are working to create a viable solution. The write up explains how Index Engines is integrating its data collection software with the Data Domain storage system from EMC. We learned:

The Collection Engine appliance sits in the Data Domain backup box and automatically indexes backup images, identifying the useful content, collecting what is relevant and writing it back to allocated disk space on the Data Domain storage, making it available for compliance and litigation purposes. The Index Engine also indexes the content of backup images so that they can be searched and analyzed for business relevance. The searches can be high-level metadata such as user mailboxes, or detailed queries based on file or email content, location and date ranges. Searches are saved as stored queries that run automatically once a new backup is executed.

Another advantage cited by the article is a reduction in archive requirements, because the software filters the data before backup. The product should be available on July 1, 2011. We think this niche will become increasingly hot due to the proliferation of digital information and the problem companies have paying expensive humans to sift through information looking for smoking guns or misplaced info nuggets.

Cynthia Murrell, May 23, 2011

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, EDiscovery, Enterprise, Enterprise search, News, Search, Text processing

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.