IDC reports that nearly all new data centers being implemented by enterprises are virtualized. However, traditional enterprise search solutions are ill-suited to operate within a virtual environment’s elastic network of dynamically provisioning computing resources such as server time and distributed network storage. To meet the demand, X1 Discovery has inked a deal with value-added distributor Ingram Micro, through its aggregator DistiNow.
Available immediately to Ingram Micro channel partners in the United States, X1 Rapid Discovery offers an enterprise search and eDiscovery solution to allow organizations to identify, search and act upon distributed data wherever resides within the enterprise, including within virtualized and cloud environments. It can pull information across hosted applications, and it will even aggregate social media activity.
“As adoption of hybrid IT environments grows, the need and demand for desktop and enterprise search solutions that work seamlessly within virtual data centers and with cloud-based technologies will grow,” said Bill Brandel, senior director of the Advanced Computing Division at Ingram Micro U.S. “That’s great news for X1 and Ingram Micro, and one of the driving forces behind this new alliance.”
The managed services implementation means that administration is performed remotely through X1’s unified Web browser, which provides a single “pane of glass” to view all valuable enterprise information, supporting over 500 applications and file types, including SharePoint, PST Files, Microsoft Exchange, Web mail, network file shares and more. X1’s solution is built for indexing and searching terabytes of data, but is applicable to both large and small businesses.
