In a market increasingly dominated by issues surrounding compliance, corporate governance and legal discovery, the ability to search rapidly through mountains of e-mail and other electronic documents in order to comply with, for example, a discovery order has risen to the top of the executive priority list. As any organization that has responded to an audit or discovery order can attest, this is not an easy task.

The growth of content—particularly e-mail as the primary method of most business communications and transactions—has exceeded all expectations. For example, IDC estimates that the average number of e-mails sent each day worldwide will hit 36.2 billion next year, while Gartner Group predicts growth of up to 30 percent per year through 2009. Meanwhile, Enterprise Strategy Group reports that as much as 75 percent of most companies' intellectual property is contained in the messages and attachments they send through their e-mail systems.

In this environment, the ability to perform rapid searches for specific content stored on backups or in archives takes on mission-critical importance.

AXS-One Rapid-AXS™, the company's new patent-pending technology provides extremely fast search and retrieval of archived data. This next-generation archival search technology dramatically improves foreground searches across huge amounts of data stored within the archive. Rapid-AXS is designed specifically to deliver:

• Exceptional search speeds
• Proven, benchmarked performance, regardless of the volume of records being searched and retrieved
• Low total cost of ownership and capital expenditure
• Fast implementation
• The flexibility to use commodity hardware to accommodate scale

In hard numbers, AXS-One Rapid-AXS has exhibited response times of 2-3 seconds during standard queries of 10 million sample e-mail records.