I am no internet bebo - but I really don't get the context of this article! Cue flame war...

...El Reg hasn't just regurgitated a press release has it? For shame!

If only I could do something about my SME's document searching requirements...that doesn't impact upon firewall security ...Any ideas? Anyone?

Bueller?

I guess it's so companies can drop a box like this on to their network and have a dedicated search system for files/data contained on their internal network.

Probably quite useful in a large company!

Must be the most simplistic and retarded diagram I've ever seen. It might as well just say "MAGIC BOX MAKE FILES FOUND." Still, it's aimed at the management, I suppose.

should the title not be "google permits dell to sell google servers" or something similar, seeing as its google servers rather than dell's

It lists Domino and Notes, can it also do bog standard Exchange and Outlook as well? If so, it would make a very nice and simple means of doing those email searches and retrievals when someone is waving a court writ at you. Is BAe on the customer list....?

Just spat out a mouthful of apple juice at your comment. Have to say I agree completely.

Search is all well and good, but ring me up when they have a gmail+Docs appliance I can install behind my firewall and take backups.

It's Google's software running on Dell Poweredge 2950 rackmount servers; the title has just a smidge of irony, OK?

I should say so! That one's going to stand out in a rack now.

Looks to me like someone's had a particularly nasty tummy problem after a couple of weeks on a paella and custard diet. I'd be looking to hide it behind a tape safe or something else suitably large, dull and opaque.

"Boy racer" stylie servers. Who'd have thunk it?

This way they will know which ones to steal when they break down the wall at your secure downtown datacenter.