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    Lightning IQ™ is a leader in data intelligence software helping organizations better understand, manage and control the costs and processes associated with risk, compliance and regulatory matters.
     
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    The Lightning IQ platform makes the impossible, possible, with its revolutionary design and performance - capable of mapping and indexing petabytes of metadata and full-text in hours.

    Blistering speed

    Scan and index petabytes of metadata and full-text in hours. Transform your data driven initiatives and go from data chaos to data quality across your entire enterprise.
     

    Innovative architecture

    Distributed, event-driven, asynchronous and stateless micro-services deliver best-in-class performance and provide a platform for rapid innovation.
     

     

    High-risk data identification

    Quickly identify ROT, find PII, and/or the location of confidential or critical intellectual property.
     

    Effortless deployment

    Fully automated deployment both on-prem or in the cloud eliminates the time-consuming, error-prone "configuration" typically associated with data scanning.
     

     

    AI-Readiness 

    Lightning IQ scans petabytes of enterprise data to uncover hidden risks - across file shares, cloud drives, and legacy systems - before they become AI liabilities.
     

    Terabytes in minutes; petabytes in hours

    Scale up and down - horizontally and vertically - as needed. No drive too small, no network cluster too big for Lightning IQ.      
     

     

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    Our Vision
    To transform how enterprises understand and manage their unstructured data, delivering total visibility, control, and confidence. We empower organizations to operate securely, reduce risk, and maximize the value of their enterprise data.
     

     

    Our Mission
    1. To illuminate and classify enterprise data at petabyte scale
    2. To reduce data risk through actionable insights and intelligent control
    3. To enable confident, compliant decisions across every corner of the business
     

     

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Fast changes everything.

The right data. Right now.

See Lightning IQ 2.0
Fast changes everything

Scan. Classify. Act.

Whether you’re tackling ROT, dark data, or sensitive PII, Lightning IQ delivers immediate visibility and action-ready insights across all of your storage.

01

Scan

Agentless, in-place scanning across NFS, Azure Blob, and AWS S3. Every file fully characterized — text, language, MIME, full A/C/M timestamps, custom hashes.

02

Classify

Reusable, uploadable search patterns tag every file by policy — PII, PHI, sensitivity, retention schedule — with duplicate detection running inline.

03

Act

Move, copy, or delete in bulk directly from scan results. One decision file drives action across millions of files, with per-action throughput reported.

Unprecedented speed

Terabytes per minute. Petabytes per hour.

Lightning IQ is the only solution that can scan, classify, and remediate petabytes of unstructured data in hours — not weeks. Agentless, in place, no data movement required.

Metadata index rate 1 TB / minute
Full-text extraction 1 PB / hour
Daily scan ceiling 100B records · 45+ PB

Scale up and down, horizontally and vertically, as needed. No drive too small, no network cluster too big.

SCAN SESSION / LIVE ACTIVE
2,417,908
files characterized this minute
/san/vol04/finance/archive/2019/q3_close.xlsx PII HIT
/san/vol04/legal/matters/custodian_87/mail.pst PST OWNER FOUND
/azure/blob/media/dsc_10442.mov GPS + CAMERA
/s3/eng-backups/2017/build-artifacts.tar ROT · OBSOLETE
/san/vol02/shared/marketing/logo_final_v7.ai DUPLICATE
/san/vol09/hr/benefits/enrollment_2024.pdf PHI HIT

Choose your route

Two ways enterprises start with Lightning IQ.

Same scan underneath. Different first question, different first payoff.

01

AI Readiness

Clean data in. Cheaper inference out.

Every gigabyte of junk you carry into an AI pipeline gets stored, embedded, indexed, and retrieved at premium rates.

  • Cull ROT before it reaches the pipeline
  • Segregate PII and PHI before ingestion
  • Stop agents inheriting over-permissioned shares

02

Data Remediation

Remediation at petabyte scale.

Most enterprises can identify 40 to 70 percent of unstructured data as redundant, obsolete, or trivial before a single hardware PO is signed.

  • Right-size against your post-cleanup footprint
  • Remediate in place before you migrate
  • Document every disposition for audit

By department

One scan. Three sets of answers.

IT & Infrastructure

Refresh, migrate, and size against what you actually need.

  • Complete inventory across SAN, NAS, object, cloud, and archive
  • Growth rate and age distribution per repository
  • Tiering analysis before you commit capex

Legal & Compliance

Retention, disposition, and audit-ready proof of control.

  • Defensible deletion with documented disposition
  • Legal hold and retention rules applied at scale
  • DSAR and regulatory response readiness

Security & Privacy

Find exposure before it becomes an incident.

  • Surface PII, PHI, IP, and ownerless files
  • Remediate over-permissioned and stale shares
  • Continuous scanning with real-time risk alerts
Do more with Lightning IQ

Eliminate data blind spots. Deliver trust.

Identify sensitive information

Instantly locate and classify PII, PHI, and other confidential content across structured and unstructured sources.

Discover dark data

Shine a light on forgotten, hidden, or orphaned data that could pose compliance risks or drain resources — including abandoned PSTs, now with owners auto-derived from mail store properties.

Root out ROT

Identify and remove redundant, obsolete, and trivial files across entire data estates — fast. Duplicate identification mode flags duplicates while keeping them in the pipeline.

Remediate at scale

Process terabytes in minutes and petabytes in hours. Built for velocity without compromising accuracy.

Operationalize data quality

Don’t just delete data — optimize it. Risk, governance, legal, and innovation leaders reduce risk, improve efficiency, and deliver on innovation mandates.

Start small or go big

A single drive or an entire SAN cluster. Reusable scan and export templates make workflows consistent, repeatable, and scalable.

Fast changes everything

Find out what is actually in your environment.

A 30-minute walkthrough. We will show you what Lightning IQ surfaces in your estate. ROT, dark data, sensitive data. In hours, not months.