New Product Highlights for LegalTech New York
One thing that has not changed with Index Engines is the architecture, which comes in an appliance. Index Engines sent me a 2-unit 19-inch rack-mount chassis that enclosed two 8-core CPUs, 72 GB RAM, eight 1-TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drives striped in a RAID 5 configuration. One Octane system has plenty of room for the new compliance archive. The company claims that one appliance scales to store one billion files or emails per node. If you have a project that exceeds those limits, you can configure multiple engines in a tiered configuration.
Note that Octane's new archive collects and preserves files and email, including messages from Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes, at the bit level. Email is not converted to .eml or .msg formats and, like loose files, mail is preserved and retained in its original format.
Although the appliance will not fit into a briefcase for handy transport, you can ship it to a client or customer, install it, and quickly satisfy initial and even long-term e-discovery requirements. The company claims to index 1 TB of data in 60 minutes. The appliance indexed approximately 100 GB of my law office data, much of it in .tar archives, in less than 10 minutes over a slow 100 mbps LAN interfaces. I look forward to testing this over 1000 mbps links with more complex data after LegalTech.
Apple's amazing transformation
To see what I mean, take a look at the sources of Apple’s revenue last quarter and compare those figures with holiday quarters past.In the holiday quarter last year (Apple’s first fiscal quarter), nearly 53 percent of its revenue came from selling iPhones. And that actually understates the importance of the product to Apple’s business these days. The company defers some of the revenue it gets from selling iPhones; because it sold a record number of devices last quarter, it likely deferred a record amount of iPhone revenue in the period. (Apple hasn’t disclosed that amount yet.)
Even setting this issue aside, No other piece of Apple’s business came close to iPhone sales in terms of import to Apple’s top line. iPad sales comprised about 20 percent of revenue in the quarter, computers 14 percent and iPods less than 6 percent.
Now lets look back to six years ago, which was before the iPhone and iPad launched. In the holiday quarter of 2005 , Apple’s iPod sales comprised more than half of its sales for the first — and what turned out to be only — quarter. In that period, its computer sales comprised just 30 percent of its total business.
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