Enhancements and Updates that Comes with Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.4
01.09.2023Ahmet Yusuf Türkoğlu
Veritas has announced version 14.4 for Enterprise Vault, which is the industry-leading archiving solution. With this new version, Veritas offers a bunch of enhancements to their users. Let’s take a look.
The first improvement is in the Elasticsearch Indexing Engine. As you know, Veritas has switched the conventional indexing engine into Elasticsearch, with the version of 14.2. With this new Indexing Engine, Veritas has carried the Enterprise Vault’s performance and security to another level. Elasticsearch made Enterprise Vault able to do the indexing operations much faster and users became able to backup their index data, so they can restore the index data in case of any recovery operation.
By the enhancements that comes with the version of 14.4, the indexing performance of Enterprise Vault -which is already unrivaled- is now at another level. Amol Botre, the Senior Product Manager of Veritas who is responsible for Enterprise Vault, states that, with the improved Elasticsearch Indexing Engine, Enterprise Vault is performing better between 50% to 100% when it comes to searches that contains more than ten thousand items when it compared with the old version. In addition to this, the Elasticsearch Indexing Engine requires snapshots of the index data for securing the indexes. However, there is a limitation of 500 snapshots which Enterprise Vault can manage. For taking more snapshots, it is required to delete old ones. But especially in production environments with great numbers of users, it may take only a couple of weeks -or days- to reach 500 snapshots because they need to take snapshots so often. In such situations, system administrators need to manage and delete the old snapshots by themselves. Veritas solved this issue with all new “Index Snapshot Manager” that comes with Enterprise Vault 14.4. This new module offers the ability to manage the retention periods of snapshots and delete them automatically.
There is an enhancement available about “Flexible Deployment”, which is one of the points that Veritas emphasizes mostly.
Enterprise Vault was supporting the standard version of S3 only, which is the storage solution of AWS. With this version, Enterprise Vault is able to integrate with the S3 Glacier. S3 Glacier is much more suitable for archive data that has long retention periods and accessed rarely. According to AWS, users can reduce the costs up to 500% by using S3 Glacier, instead of the regular S3, when its suitable.
The last improvement that we are going to discuss is about the “Veritas Surveillance” module.
The “Intelligent Review” function, which is included in the Veritas Surveillance relies on machine learning and it marks the items that fetched with the searches among to archive data as relevant or irrelevant automatically. This is based on the results of the previous searches and the manual markings of the user. However, in the old version, users were unable to see why an item has been marked as relevant or irrelevant. With the new version, users are able to see the reason why an item has been marked as relevant or irrelevant, based on keywords and their scores.
There is something else that I would like to emphasize, as of January 1st, 2024, the 12.x versions of Enterprise Vault will reach the end of their support life. Which means there will be no way to get support for these products. Because of this, as Redington Turkey, we suggest our customers to upgrade that are using these versions of Enterprise Vault.
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