Recently we've discussed the rise of software based storage and search solutions. According to Perfect Search Corp Software Engineer, Lynn Bendixsen, the benefit of disk -- or software -- based search is that you can actually store more data on a disk than you can in standard computer memory. More space means more informat ... Read more »

A study recently came out claiming that college students don't know how to use Google for research. Aside from the obvious question of the relevance of any study with such a small sample size, there are other issues at play here. One such issue is that many college students grow up using Google as a way to find things, but ... Read more »

Open source technology providers don't like when analysts use the phrase "Free isn't free." As Paul Allen, founder of FamilyLink.com discovered when seeking a solution to his data storage problems, you get what you pay for. The free Lucene option worked, until it didn't and Allen Found himself looking for a viable option to ... Read more »

What is it about entreprise search that seems more challenging than Internet search? In "Sorting Out Microsoft's Mixed-Up Enterprise Search Strategy," RedmondMag examines this very issue. There are lots of options among the approved vendors, however, none really seem to make the grade and there is no real compatibility ac ... Read more »

It is becoming more and more clear that a driving factor in the data explosion is unstructured data. According to a recent article on ZDNet, many organizations know that they have stores of unstructured data but have no idea what to do about it. Here is the key though: Even organizations with higher concentrations of un ... Read more »

The simple answer to this question is yes. But what makes Perfect Search a green technology? According to Perfect Search Corp. Software Engineer Lynn Bendixsen, Perfect Search is green (video) because of the amount of data it can fit onto a single server. Not only can the Perfect Search appliance hold more information, it ... Read more »

There is nothing new under the sun, not even in the world of technological innovation. Steven Arnold points this out quite poignantly in a recent post about indexing being a good start, but not the solution. It seems that in trying to figure out how to manage this data explosion, Arnold notes, most are really looking at on ... Read more »

With the deadline for the digitization of medical data looming, the industry is desperately seeking solutions. According to a recent Perfect Search case study, the main problem facing the medical industry is managing, storing and organizing the massive amount of data produced daily; not to mention all of the historical data ... Read more »

We've talked a lot recently about mining data for value, taxonomies and other such data management topics. According to Stephen Arnold, the enterprise search industry's adoption of data management marks a change in industry practice. He cites a company called Brainware, which has made some nimble changes, including a rec ... Read more »

The data explosion is no longer a possibility; it is a reality. In a recent post, Bill Ives discusses what this explosion will mean for enterprises. According to Ives, enterprises will experience a 50 times increase of data over the next decade. He also makes the point that there are an increasing number of software ... Read more »