The First Grid-Based E-Discovery Platform Hosted Securely in the Internet Cloud

Most e-discovery products run on a single server or, at most, a couple of servers. They do ok for smaller volumes of documents. When cases get larger, they tend to slow to a crawl, which can be frustrating for the user and costly for the client.

Our platform is different. We use scores of servers and deploy them in grids to share the load, much like Google does. That makes our systems fast, as fast as any in the industry. It also ensures that we can provide the power you need to manage the largest litigation, insurance and regulatory matters.

Plug Into the Power of the Grid

Catalyst was the first and is still one of the only grid-based e-discovery platforms on the market. Why should that matter? Because e-discovery volumes are growing exponentially—cases that used to have tens of thousands of documents now have millions. Older software products, originally designed to run on a desktop computer, have trouble keeping up.

The Catalyst grid contains hundreds of servers and thousands of processors across multiple data centers. Through our distributed servers we can provide  sub-second response, even for massive, complex searches. Redundancy is unmatched, with multiple front-end web servers, replicated search clusters, mirrored SANS and a virtualized services grid for processing, conversions and productions.

The Fastest Search in the Industry

We employ one of the most sophisticated search grids in the industry. Each search is spread across multiple servers arrayed in a redundant fashion. Searches run simultaneously against all the servers in the grid, with results coming back almost instantly. Should any one search server fail for any reason, there is second redundant server also on line to deliver results. As a result, our search grid is never offline even when we are adding new documents.

We tune our clusters to ensure we can deliver sub-second response even for complex queries involving millions of documents. Years ago, when we first deployed our search grid, we asked one of the preeminent search consulting companies, New Idea Engineering, to check our work.

The New Idea experts measured search speed against 15 million documents containing approximately 60 million pages. The tests involved some 200,000 queries of between 500 and 750 terms. Fully 99.9065% came back in under a second. Most of the rest came back in under 2 seconds. You can read their report here.

Tap Into Our Services Platform

Our grid extends beyond search and runs throughout our systems. When you choose Catalyst, you get the power of our services platform, which is optimized to handle your requests across the e-discovery life-cycle:

• Fast Track multi-language processing takes advantage of multiple servers and automated load-balancing to divide work efficiently across the grid.
• Fast Track automated loading allows you to send data directly to our system, with documents loading in minutes or hours rather than days.
• Our automated services grid spans scores of servers to provide a variety of services including redaction, copying, printing, batch updating, foldering, and review batching and assignment.
• Our front end, load-balanced server grid allows thousands of users to access our systems without overtaxing any one server.

Catalyst's services platform offers virtually unlimited scalability, capable of handling the largest (and smallest) requests your team can make.

The Catalyst Advantage: All the Power You Need to Manage Complex Litigation and Regulatory Matters

By delivering our software through secure grids of computers, we ensure that our clients have all the power they need to manage complex litigation and regulatory requests. From processing and productions to search, analytics and review, modern e-discovery systems require more power than the older desktop systems were ever intended to provide. Speed and scalability running to the millions of documents are the watchwords for big cases today. To get there you need the power of a grid. That's the Catalyst advantage.

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