Digital Experience

We have just signed our silver sponsorship agreement to this year’s IBM Digital Experience conference coming up in July and I found this great blog from Brendon Jones with an IBM video on digital disruption and the importance of building digital into your business model. The video explains the 4 transforming principles for new digital […]

I have always been impressed with Google’s attention to detail.  The custom yellow shell around the Google Search Appliance is completely useless, but I suspect it has enhanced the value of their trademark.  GMail’s reminder when you mention an attachment in your message but forget to actually attach a document is downright useful. Two recent examples caught my attention, and […]

It has been almost a month since IBM announced the release of Digital Experience 8.5 and I just read a blog post from one of our Senior Solution Architects, Shyam Sunter who gives a great tutorial and highlights as he installs the new WebSphere Portal V8.5 Extended Addition. Downloading the Installables IBM made it easy […]

With Google Search Appliance (GSA) connector framework 3.x, user group lookup is an essential part of user authorization when searching for controlled-access content, especially for early binding. During controlled-access content search, GSA first authenticates user with the authentication mechanism configured. After the user identity is resolved, GSA will pass it to the connector for group […]

Quite often we need have last access time for File share content. Google File System connector 3.x does not support it out of the box. Since Google engineers already added retrieving the information to JCIFS code base to reset last access time for SMB content  (yes, Google connector is using a modified version of JCIFS), […]

The Google Search Appliance has historically required Connectors to facilitate the indexing of non-HTTP content repositories.  A Connector is a program that sits between the GSA and a repository, and pushes the GSA everything it needed to know to index the repository (including the content, metadata, and security information).  A Connector can use any technique to interrogate the repository […]

What is Netezza: At an extremely high level Netezza is a massively Parallel Process Database Appliance designed to process and analyze large amounts of data. Netezza’s core value is to keep the things simple and accelerating high performance analysis of data to help clients uncover insights into their business. One of the reasons of it’s performance […]

Enterprise Content Management solutions usually follow a standard lifecycle: A client identifies a need. They send out an RFP. A solution (more often than not, a software platform) is selected. The platform is installed, customized, and configured to solve the original problem. For Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG) solutions, the “selection of solution” stage is not […]

Out of the Box The Google Search Appliance ships with a full-function — but no thrills — XSL template (XSLT) that we refer to as the ‘out of the box’ user interface.  It looks a little bit like google.com did a few years ago – lots of blue and white, and very few graphics.  But […]

GSA Mirroring, or GSA^n, is simply the ability to link two or more appliances together so that they share the same configuration and search index. This article is an introduction to this powerful technique that should be in every search administrator’s toolkit. The most common reason for mirroring is high availability. A mirror appliance can […]

Congratulations, you have either purchased or are interested in purchasing the Google Search Appliance.  You will soon be able to search until your heart is content.  Your friends will be jealous. Now might be a good time to think about the staff required to deploy and maintain your cool new toy investment. The Google Search Appliance, being […]

If you read Chad Johnson’s recent post, Why do I need metadata?, you may be thinking: “Metadata sounds great in theory but the level of effort is too high!” I won’t deny the value of metadata entered carefully by hand, but it can be very labor-intensive to do this for large body of content. Fortunately, with Google Search Appliance […]