Interviewed by CRN on Google/Ingram Deal
June 29th, 2007
I was interviewed this week by CRN regarding the Google Enterprise Professional program by Google Enterprise and Google’s announcement to resell via Ingram. You can read the article here:
MC+A Opens Brazil Office
June 29th, 2007
New Office to Provide Support and Services to MC+A Customers Throughout the Latin America Region
MC+A, A North America leader in technologies related to enterprise search, today is announcing the opening of its newest office in Rio De Janeiro. The new office will provide technology products, service and support to MC+A’s expanding customer base in Brazil, as well as global customers located throughout the Latin America region. Additionally, this office will serve as an off shore development house for MC+A in North America. This office expands MC+A’s global footprint and underscores the company’s standing as the leading figure implementing Google enterprise technologies.
Cristiano Nogueira will manage the company’s Brazilian office. He has more than 10 years of experience in the consumer applications market. The office will leverage MC+A’s North American network of resources to better serve customers.
“The ease of Google technology is something that Brazilians have come to enjoy. Combing Google technology with our implementation services is a dynamite combination. MC+A is the only company in Brazil with the expertise in this area to do so.” – Cristiano.
MC+A is always looking to form alliances with other company that will extend our reach into areas that would otherwise be difficult to market in. We have begun working with several companies and are continuing to look at more companies, particularly in the northern area and Brasilia.
If you are a company who’s looking to partner, simply email partner@mcplusa.com and we’d be happy to contact you.
Social Bookmarking with ConnectBeam
June 16th, 2007
Social bookmarking has begun to see enterprise use as sites like Del.icio.us and reddit gain use by consumers. This technology allows users to share links to information they find useful. By combining this technology with enterprise search, it allows users to combine the power of search engine relevancies with a democratic method to determine usefulness. MC+A has recently partnered with ConnectBeam.
As ConnectBeam describes themselves:
“Connectbeam brings the ‘Web 2.0′ information-sharing, collaboration, and ease of use of sites like MySpace, Flickr, and del.icio.us to the daily work-flow of enterprise employees. It helps companies boost innovation, improve decisions, intensify collaboration, and build critical stakeholder relationships.”
Ephraim Schwartz, from information week, recently posted an article describing the company here.
The appliance comes out of the box with the following features: Bookmarking,Tags,Share Information,Find Information – & People,Dynamic Profile and Recent Activity.
The Google Aqualogic Search
May 24th, 2007
MC+A is announcing the availability of the Google Aqualogic Search(GAS). The GAS allows the Google Search Appliance to index data stored in BEA’s Aqualogic Portal and serve search requests from Aqualogic portlets.
Key features of Google Aqualogic Search GAS:
- Works with both Google Search Appliance’s and BEA’s security model
- Content security is controlled by Aqualogic’s security model.
- Unlimited scalability for BEA Portal environment
- Can index Knowledge Directory, Content Server and Publisher
- Can integrate within Aqualogic as a portlet to allow harnessing of the Google search algorithm and keeping your custom Aqualogic interface.
Google Aqualogic Search – The Architecture
GAS includes a Search Portlet that is deployed as a standard Aqualogic remote web service. A middle tier application brokers security requests from Google Search Appliance (GSA) using Aqualogic Interaction Development Kit (formerly EDK). Content from Knowledge Directory, Collaboration and Publisher repositories are indexed by the GSA. Additional document meta data can be included in the GSA to support more intelligent searching.
Google Aqualogic Search – Installation
GAS can be installed in just a few hours by our professional services team. Customization of the Search Portlet is accomplished using XSL style sheets.
MC+A Professional Services
Should you require GAS customizations, BEA Aqualogic, or additional Google access connectors, our professional services team will be happy to assist you. Simply email: sales@mcplusa.com
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Configuring LDAP on GSA/Mini
April 25th, 2007
Active Directory (AD) under Windows 2003 does not allow anonymous LDAP operations to AD. This is required by the Google Search Appliance or Google Mini to auto detect the settings. This article describes how to change AD to allow Anonymous LDAP operations to a Windows Server 2003.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326690/en-us
If you tolerance for using barely supported and sparsely documented tools is as short as mine, I suggest simply making a DN query similar to this:
"CN=Troy Flint,CN=Users,DC=horizen,DC=local"
Where the admin’s name is “Troy Fling”, who’s in the Users Group and the domain is horizon.local. I set up the others as follows:
Host: 10.10.10.10 (IP address and not server name)
Port: 389
DN: as described as above
PW: my password.
It worked on the first try!
GSS Version 2.5
April 16th, 2007
Last Monday, MC+A released version 2.5 of the GSS. This tool is used to aid a Google Search Appliance or Google Mini with content discovery of a Microsoft SharePoint system. In this release, we added an installer that will install the GSS to a Windows Server 2003 system (with IIS) and a fixed for MOSS. You can request a free trial at:
http://www.mcplusa.com/solutions/enterprise-search/google-sharepoint-sitemap/
