This article discusses how, in order to do early case assessments, companies need access to critical email data-points where pitures are attached to the messages and thumbnails can be searched. 
United States of America (Press Release) April 6, 2008 --
eMail archiving systems have been in use for many years. In the United States, the primary purpose for archiving has been compliance, civil and criminal eDiscovery, as well as internal policy violations. For more information on eMail archiving see www.estorian.com/blog.php. Rest-of-world (ROW) drivers include eDiscovery for civil and criminal cases, but storage management and operational efficiency have been the primary buying motivation. In all cases, search is a critical part of the story, including full-text searching. However, full-text search can't find words for images and, as the anecdote goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."
Since full-text search can only find words or associate concepts with image files, users still need to review the images. The ability to review images as it relates to emails has been overlooked in the major systems, such as Autonomy/Zantaz, Symantec Enterprise Vault, etc. The scenario is simple: your human resources or legal group has a need to do an early case assessment, but some of the critical email data-points are pictures attached to the messages. In most cases, the pictures have obtuse names like DSC30012.JPG or IMG_1459.PNG, telling you absolutely nothing about the file. What you need is a thumbnail view of all images related to your search query.
Estorian LookingGlass, a third generation email archiving product, delivers an image review capability through their spherical search engine and intuitive user interface. The Estorian spherical search engine utilizes new algorithms to reduce the full-text foot print, but allow for conceptual and contextual searches (that's another blog entry for later this quarter).
(go to http://www.estorian.com/blog.php to read full article)
Since full-text search can only find words or associate concepts with image files, users still need to review the images. The ability to review images as it relates to emails has been overlooked in the major systems, such as Autonomy/Zantaz, Symantec Enterprise Vault, etc. The scenario is simple: your human resources or legal group has a need to do an early case assessment, but some of the critical email data-points are pictures attached to the messages. In most cases, the pictures have obtuse names like DSC30012.JPG or IMG_1459.PNG, telling you absolutely nothing about the file. What you need is a thumbnail view of all images related to your search query.
Estorian LookingGlass, a third generation email archiving product, delivers an image review capability through their spherical search engine and intuitive user interface. The Estorian spherical search engine utilizes new algorithms to reduce the full-text foot print, but allow for conceptual and contextual searches (that's another blog entry for later this quarter).
(go to http://www.estorian.com/blog.php to read full article)
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