BridgeHead Software has announced a new content search capability for HT FileStore, its policy-based file archiving software system for multi-platform computing environments. HT FileStore archives data from systems across the enterprise and now indexes the text content as well as metadata of archived files to provide significantly enhanced searchability.

Using a straightforward web-browser interface, HT FileStore's search functionality lets administrators and auditors efficiently discover, retrieve and report across all of the organisation's archive data repositories using any combination of word and phrase content and/or file attribute filters. While the new content search feature enhances authorised transparent access to archived data, the integrity and privacy of information is not compromised as HT FileStore maintains user access privileges to files throughout the archive and data lifecycle management process.

BridgeHead selected Apache's Lucene text search engine library for its powerful cross platform indexing and information retrieval. Lucene's API is agnostic of file format, allowing text from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, PDF and any other file type to be indexed. By settling on the popular open source Lucene, used by the likes of Wikipedia, BridgeHead has ensured its file archive search capabilities benefit from constant advances from the Lucene community, including updated IFilter plug-ins for extracting text from specialised file formats. The ability to draw on a steady source of new functionality gives HT FileStore users state-of-the-art options for identifying and managing different types of file data. The use of Lucene is also in line with similar functions from Quest's email Archive Manager which is often bundled with BridgeHead's HT FileStore for a complete email and user file archiving solution.

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