Nuix Intelligent Migration Upgrading Next-Gen Email Archives

Nuix Pty Ltd. has applied its engine’s patented parallel processing (registration needed) technology toward solving the technical challenges of migrating data from legacy email archives.

In the past six months, Nuix’s intelligent migration business division has recruited dozens of employees and signed up 31 migration partners across North America, Europe, Africa and the AsiaPac region.

Revenues for the most recent quarter grew 500% over the previous quarter.

“Tens of thousands of enterprises will upgrade their email archives and other information management systems to next-generation or cloud platforms in the next five years,” said Rocco Seyboth, SVP, intelligent migration, Nuix. “Their choice of migration technology will have a huge impact on the success or failure of their project.”

Traditional migration technologies rely on an archive’s internal indexes, which are often incomplete or corrupt, and extract data using the built-in API. This bottleneck extends migration timeframes to months or years for small volumes of data.

The company’s technology uses multiple simultaneous connections to analyze and extract data from archive storage, bypassing the API. This approach makes the legacy data searchable before and during the migration and extracts the data up to 20 times faster than API-based technologies.

It also helps organizations get smarter about the data they move or leave behind. Its visual analytics platform Luminate simplifies the process of identifying redundant, outdated and trivial data that does not need to be migrated. Organizations can also prioritize high-value files and emails such as business records and current legal holds so they can be migrated first.

These advantages have sparked demand from customers, service providers and partners such as Proofpoint, Inc. which was positioned by Gartner Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2013 magic quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving.

“With Nuix, our clients can make informed decisions about what data to migrate and what to leave behind,” said Darren Lee, VP and GM, Proofpoint’s archiving business. “In most cases, they are able to drastically reduce the volume of data they transfer, increasing ROI and accelerating their time to value in the cloud.”

“Working exclusively through partners such as Proofpoint, Mimecast, Bishop Technologies and the Microsoft Office 365 partner community we have a rapidly growing portfolio of migration projects underway, with data volumes ranging from single-digit terabytes to more than 100,” said Seyboth.

Nuix partners are using the technology to extract data from Symantec Enterprise Vault, EMC EmailXtender, EMC Centera, HP Autonomy EAS and others, and migrate it to platforms including Microsoft Office 365, EMC SourceOne, CommVault, Mimecast and Proofpoint.