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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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    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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Data Center REfresh - Start with the Data

Modernize infrastructure with storage intelligence.

Lightning IQ scans petabytes per hour, without moving data, so storage teams can reduce footprint, eliminate risk, and retire infrastructure faster.

Scan Everything. Assess Instantly. Know Exactly What to Do.
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Scan. Understand. Decide.

Speed changes the refresh equation.

Before you migrate or replace infrastructure, Lightning IQ reveals exactly what’s in your storage - so you can shrink footprint, reduce risk, and refresh with confidence.
 
Petabyte-scale speed
Lightning IQ scans and analyzes data at up to 1PB per hour, delivering complete storage visibility across NAS, object, archive, and cloud environments in hours - not weeks.
 
See what you're actually storing
Understand file types, ownership, age, usage patterns, and storage consumption instantly, so refresh decisions are driven by facts, not estimates.
 
Root out unnecessary data
Identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data across petabyte-scale environments and eliminate it before buying new storage or migrating workloads.
 
Surface risk before infrastructure changes
Locate sensitive data, stale permissions, and exposed files before refresh projects begin, reducing compliance and security risk during migrations.

Deploy in minutes
Lightning IQ deploys using automated infrastructure-as-code. No agents. No data movement. No heavy indexing pipelines. No impact on production workloads.  Start scanning immediately and see results within hours.
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Do more with Lightning IQ
 
 “For the first time, infrastructure and storage teams can see exactly what’s inside their environments before migrating or replacing infrastructure. Lightning IQ transforms data center refresh from a guessing game into a data-driven decision ... helping organizations reduce cost, lower risk, and modernize storage with confidence.”
— Daniel Pidutti, CEO, Lightning IQ
 
 
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See everything in your storage ... before you move anything.

Process and analyze terabytes of unstructured data in place at blistering speed. Use your own governance policies and workflows to uncover redundant data, sensitive information, and unused files, long before infrastructure refresh or migration begins.

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Hardware costs are skyrocketing. Your storage footprint shouldn’t be.

Identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial data before infrastructure refresh or migration begins. Reduce storage volumes at the source and dramatically lower the hardware you need to buy.

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Transform storage planning with real-time data intelligence.

Accelerate refresh readiness with immediate visibility into file types, usage patterns, sensitive data, and storage consumption. Take precise control of what to retain, tier, archive, or retire before any migration or infrastructure upgrade begins.  

Join the Lightning IQ data revolution