Digital Reef Surfaces

After being in stealth mode for two years, Digital Reef announced its distributed platform to manage unstructured data. In a nutshell, Digital Reef’s technology aims to index, analyze, classify, and manage large volumes to, at once, facilitate e-discovery tasks and help satisfy overall compliance requirements for data retention.

Digital Reef uses a three-tier architecture built on Linux. A Web-based front end orchestrates middleware and back-end processes that include crawlers and a federated index. The index contains metadata and the entire contents of discovered files. The index is based on a proprietary, flat-file system structure that claims to have unique performance optimizations.

Differentiators: Digital Reef’s technology includes a similarity engine that can organize and classify data as well as find content that is similar to documents already found to be relevant to a particular query or litigation. A Linux-based, multi-tier architecture can scale Digital Reef processes independently or in concert using commodity hardware.