EV Continues to Struggle with Indexing
One of the little known facts about Enterprise Vault is that its Automatic Classification Engine (ACE) is based on technology from Orchestria. Did you see the announcement that Orchestria was purchased by Computer Associates last week? This not mean that ACE will be disabled anytime soon, I suspect that any contractual agreement between Orchestria and Symantec will be honored by CA.
But, it raises the question regarding Alta Vista (AV) which is the search engine used by EV. The reason that EV needed Orchestria for classification is because AV was not up to the task. As we all know, AV has been EOL’d since 2003 and it sorely out-of-date. Symantec is still left without a robust index engine for EV that can support all the modern archiving tasks such as retention and classification, as well as search. When will it replace AV?
I like the Mimosa solution because its index engine is able perform fast and realible search of the entire archive, including meta data, and the search results can be automatically processed for legal workflow (holds, exclusions), retention management and data classification (monitoring, data loss prevention).
One single, integrated soluton for email archiving.
Tags: alta vista, index, mimosa, orchestria, symantec
