Search giant
Google has
upped the size and scope of its
Google
Mini document warehousing systems.
Google Mini offers a preinstalled rack-mount search appliance that allows
companies to catalogue and search large collections of documents inside the
network.
The new systems start at $1,995 for a 50,000 document capacity, while the
largest model holds 300,000 documents and costs $10,000.
Dave Girouard, vice president at Google Enterprise, claimed that the new
systems fill a gap for medium-sized enterprises stuck between smaller low-end
systems and more expensive high-end systems.
"As search becomes more critical to businesses of all sizes, Google continues
to add even more sophisticated search features that, until now, had only been
available to large businesses," he said.
The system features new security software allowing administrators to limit
access to information on either a user or document level.
Google Mini also includes
OneBox
which unlocks information on enterprise applications from a series of vendors
including
Oracle,
SAP and
Salesforce.com.
The Mini systems were first released in 2005 as a low-end alternative to
Google's larger, more expensive enterprise search systems which start at $30,000
and can hold anywhere from 500,000 to 30 million documents.
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