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 »

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 »

In a recent post about simple vs. complex taxonomies, Accees Innovations President, Marjorie M.K. Hlava, discusses how vocabulary is used. At the end of her post she notes that ontology doesn't do well with ambiguity. This may be true, but as pointed out in Hlava's post, where there are synonyms, ambiguity will exist. ... Read more »

We recently inked partnerships with Dell DX and Caringo to provide comprehensive object and data storage solutions for enterprises. Here, Dell's Gene Chesser and Caringo's Mike Nelson discuss the difference between traditional enterprise data systems and Dell DX Object Storage.   

In “The Role of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval," the author outlines exactly how and why semantic search is a good thing by drawing the connection between linguistic phenomenon, how humans process information, and how information is disseminated and retrieved information. The point of the lect ... Read more »

Businesses often have multiple silos of data. There are spreadsheets, text documents and emails. Often, each department has its own server, there's data in a Sharepoint server... Data all over the place. With enterprise search, businesses can unify all of these data sources into one database. This unification makes it ea ... Read more »

According to a recent interview with Information World, Rob Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging internet technologies, says that when customers talked about processing data, they talked about the extraction of value. The thing is, customers didn't want to incur the cost of mining data to discover that value. What custom ... Read more »