TechNayak

[digg=http://digg.com/hardware/Google_Mini_and_Enterprise_Search]Well Google Mini has been around for two years now and its official. Google mini is hardware with built in firmware that acts like a mini google server in your own enterprise. Picture this, you own a job consultancy firm with over 30 employees and each of these employees have reumes of hundreds on candidates in their own machines. To find a person with certain skill sets, you have to manually search all these machines or probably maintain a control area of all resumes and search there, probably even invest in some sort of a resume management software. Even if you do go on to implement one of these above solutions, how much will it scale? will it still handle the load when your company has over 500 employees? Now consider a company with 20,000 employees and their individual documents, presentations , pdfs, spreadsheets etc. Managing and searching data and information in enterprises is complicated. Well, thats where the mini comes in.

You buy the mini, give it power and also a LAN connection and voila, you have a dedicated server which crawls the entire network in your enterprise and indexes information. A built in server powers a web based Google Enterprise Search site and you can google your documents like its in your own machine. The concept is definitely astounding as are the possibilities. No need of manually maintaining documents or the pains of version control or shared area space, a dedicated server does all this and more. IF you are an enterprise that wants to invest in a search solution for yoru network, look no beyond the Google Mini, its a cinch.