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Telecommunications Google search hardware launched in Australia
Telecommunications Google search hardware launched in Australia | Google search hardware launched in Australia |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 23 June 2006 | |
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Apart from the new OneBox the products have been on sale in the US and Europe for several months and according to distributor ChannelWorx, there is strong pent up demand: "We have been given over 200 leads of people who had requested the product from Google in the US," said Paul Oxley, ChannelWorx sales and marketing director. Australia is the first country to get the devices outside the US and Europe, and this, according to Google, is due in part to the evangelism of Rob Hillard, managing director (partner) data knowledge and management with BearingPoint. BearingPoint will provide a systems integration role for the Search Appliance and the OneBo; the Mini is intended to be plug-and-play. Although based in Australia, Hillard has global responsibilities with BearingPoint and he told iTWire he had been frustrated at not being able to bring to Australia the productivity gains which he had seen the Search Appliance bring to BearingPoint operations overseas. According to Hillard, just as Google online search has, for many users, largely replaced directly accessing information and applications on the web with approximate natural language queries, the Search Appliance could do the same for an enterprise's internal information. "If I want to find out what the weather is like in Melbourne, I could type in the URL for the Bureau of Meteorology, but it's much easier to go to Google and type 'Weather Melbourne today' because I know that will come up in the top two or three items," Hillard said. "So if I'm in a bank working on loans I can just type 'loans' and the kind of loan I'm working on and the information an the applications I need will come up. If I want to work on a particular account I can just type the person's name and their account details will come up." This latter functionality is enabled by the OneBox which "provides a fast front end into up-to-the-minute information across enterprise application and services including Cisco VoIP systems, Cognos, Employease, Oracle Applications, Salesforce.com and many more." For security, the Google Seach Appliance's access control capabilities "integrate with existing enteprise security systems and enforce the policy already in place in content systems and applications." The Google Mini is aimed at the low end of the enterprise market and will be sold through a large number of resellers, the first named of which is Harris Technology. It has a maximum throughput of 25 queries per second and in the entry level device a search capacity of 50,000 documents. It will sell for $4965 larger versions search up to 300,000 documents in over 220 different file types. Starting price for the Search Appliance is $74,486 for a 500,000 document version.
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