Massive extraction

Inxight  has released SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX), which is claimed to be the first commercially available and massively scalable solution for text analytics in more than 30 languages. The company explains SDX delivers ThingFinder extraction capabilities--reading text to discover the who, what, where and when of each document--enabling publishers, government organizations and enterprises to extract people, companies, places and other key entities from terabytes of unstructured text.

Inxight adds that SDX was designed from the ground up to fit into service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services environments and features a configurable security model and high-throughput processing capabilities to allow delivery of rapid data collection for detailed enterprise-class text analytics.

Further, says Inxight, the basic SDX architecture is a horizontally scalable, distributed extraction platform, designed to be deployed in a variety of configurations--from 4 CPUs to more than 40,000 CPUs. And, the company says, new nodes can be added to the running system dynamically to meet demand. Administration of the system (managing distributed nodes, providing configuration parameters, etc.) is controlled through a Web-based user interface.