CommVault® Content Indexing
Higher Efficiencies in Searching Online and Offline Data
Content Indexing (CI) enables higher efficiencies with the search of both online and offline data. This answers the need for discovery, compliance, legal and discovery search with the ability to perform keyword search of indexed data in files, emails and attachments to emails.
CommVault Content Indexing features FAST® market-leading search engine capabilities, supporting 77 languages and 370 data types. Content Indexing applies to backup and archive copies of data, as well as to online Windows file systems data managed with the CommVault® Data Classification Enabler.
CommVault's unique implementation of FAST Content Indexing provides administrators with fine-tuned control of when Content Indexing is done on data, to avoid having to create and store more indexing meta-data than is needed — and to ensure that only the meta-data that is really needed is ever created. Content Indexing meta-data can be retired after its use, freeing up disk space for other purposes. CommVault's exclusive "on-demand" approach to Content Indexing is more efficient for legal discovery of all Electronically Stored Information (ESI), as well as end-user file system searching, and enables the Search web interface to unlock the value of managed data for business use.
CommVault® Data Classification Enabler
Eliminate Unnecessary Disk Scans on Windows Clients to Reduce Impacts of Backup, Archive and Resource Management Operations
This feature works with the Windows Journal to capture and track changes written to the Windows file system, and eliminate the need to perform a disk scan process to find file changes. Disk scanning is otherwise required for every backup, archive or resource management job, whether using CommVault software or some other data management software option. Only CommVault provides the Data Classification Enabler option to avoid multiple disk scans. CommVault's Singular approach means that this feature benefits not just one type of data management, but all types that are in use together on the same client system.
Scanning the disk causes a slow-down in other functioning on the client for the duration of the disk scan, and is one of the reasons that backup jobs are performed during off hours.
This feature has a second, distinct use which is to enable the Content Indexing of Windows file system data. This is necessary for keyword searches of that type of data. When used for this purpose, an additional component called the "Online Content Indexer" agent appears in the Unified Console for the client system.
CommVault® Search Web Interface 7.0 for Users
Singular Search of Files and e-Mail Managed by CommVault Unified Data Management™ Software
Download Search Web Interface Datasheet (pdf)
The Business Challenge
Unstructured file systems and e-mail data present particular challenges in growth and management, because of the nature of how and when the data is created. Users are typically disorganized in saving and naming their files and in managing their e-mail folders. For business audits and legal discovery purposes, all types of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) must be easily retrievable — from any online or offline data location. This data chaos makes it difficult for administrators to help users to find missing or lost files when required and can lengthen audits and legal discovery, increasing costs and risks.
The CommVault® Solution
CommVault® offers a radically better approach that removes the degrees of separation typically found between users and their data. Instead of requiring users to work through a help desk and administration teams to find and recover their data, CommVault's Search Web Interface provides users with easy-to-use, direct web access to files and e-mail managed by CommVault software. The Search interface operates against the single, virtual pool of managed data created by CommVault's exclusive Singular approach, making it easier and more cost effective to search, access and make use of that data.
The CommVault Search interface services the growing demands of business compliance and legal discovery teams as well as end-users. It includes capabilities designed to assist organizations in responding to legal discovery actions and compliance audits, and to enable higher levels of business productivity and competitiveness by offering users direct access to data.
