Chapter 38: Introducing Enterprise Hardware


In This Chapter

  • Learning how to use Google Search Appliance to your company’s advantage

  • Discovering the features of the Google OneBox

  • Seeing how Google Mini can solve data access in smaller enterprises

  • Comparing the Google OneBox Search Appliance with Google Mini

  • Finding out how to participate in the Google Enterprise Partner Program

Information. We are all deluged with information on a minute-by-minute basis. Dealing with information has become a fact of life, and one we must learn to handle efficiently to be competitive in today’s business world. The key is rapid access to the right information. It’s no longer enough simply to have access to all the information, a major goal of the 1990s IT professional. It’s now important that we can put our fingertips on very specific bits of information without spending hours looking for it. Enter Google.

While businesses often use information found on the Web, and mostly through Google Web search, the information they use most on a daily basis resides in files throughout their own enterprises. Through a combination of hardware and software solutions, Google provides rapid access to business information in medium and large enterprises. Most small businesses and organizations won’t require the power offered by this solution. But enterprises the size of universities and libraries may.

To get started toward faster access to business information, check out the Google Enterprise page for more information about its hardware/software business solutions at www.google.com/enterprise.

Compared to the salary of a person working to manage your business information, the Google hardware is very cost effective. For example, the Google OneBox for Enterprise, with capabilities of indexing and managing access to 500,000 documents, starts at about the same as the person’s annual salary. You also can pick up a Google Mini, good for 50,000 documents at a much lower price.



Google Power Tools Bible
Google Power Tools Bible
ISBN: 0470097124
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 353

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