Search Tools

Phoenix Search Tools enable the user to search for data, from across the enterprise, which is stored within the Information Repository. Phoenix Search tools help to narrow search results to the information that is most relevant. Searches may be filtered according to a wide array of contextual information, including data type, content, owner, host-of-origin, date, size, and other parameters.

Content-Addressable Storage

The Information Repository is fully content addressable. Content searches can include a mix of key words and phrases connected with Boolean operators. Search results are ranked by relevance and displayed in a file tree or Search Engine Results Page (SERP) format that represents the data's original state in primary storage.

Search or Discover

The parameters that can be set in Phoenix are flexible and enable the user to search for specific files with pinpoint accuracy or discover a set of files that share a single parameter or several parameters in common. Since the Search Tools use the metadatabases in the Information Repository, search results are almost instantaneous.

Search results include all of the stored data with file components that match user entered search parameters. Since actual data is retrieved only after a user selects specific files, refining search parameters is simple and painless when the system may have returned results that were too broad. Once a user finds the required data, it can be retrieved to its original location or to anywhere in the network. 

Search Off-line Media

Because Phoenix uses storage-resident metadatabases, it will search even data that is stored off-line and off-site. Data that is selected for retrieval may be restored to its original location or redirected to another location.

Safe and Secure Search and Access

Phoenix preserves and utilizes data's original security parameters. Users executing search queries see results that include only the data for which they have access permissions.

Benefits provided by Phoenix Search Tools:

• A thorough, easy, and fast way to locate data in the Information Repository
• A flexible method to discover stored data with common content or attributes
• A quick method to determine stored data statistics
• Overwrite protection options for network original data
• Redirect capabilities