Google disrupts data center grain mix
- TAGS:Google, Raytheon, search, search appliance
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Data Center
When Claire Brockelman lead a project to bring a customized Google Search Appliance into Raytheon it wasn't just the technology that stood out. The system, which lets users bookmark recent searches across enterprise data and save result sets, sits inside a server appliance box that the IT project manager says has been dubbed "the big yellow school bus."
The box raised a few eyebrows, and not just because of its color. "The data center folks don't like it because it doesn't fit into a standard rack and it's the wrong color," she jokes. But if the server looks like a misfit against the putty-grey palette of the rest of the data center equipment, it fits in just fine on the business side, which has no quibbles over the technology. "You have a lot of users that just want results," says Brockelman, and the customized appliance has delivered.
The results were impressive enough to recently earn Brockelman Raytheon's coveted CIO Award. Kudos.
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