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Follow on Google News | Migration Still Looms Large on the Horizon for FAST ESP Customers“It’s an enormous undertaking to migrate an entire search solution from FAST to another enterprise search platform. Solving challenging issues requires both creativity and expertise to address your needs.”
By: Karen E. Lynn Buzz about migration ensued--an inevitable certainty for many companies, especially ones with huge amounts of data. But how many companies have jumped in with both feet? I had the opportunity to speak with an open source search engine expert who, along with the industry, believed that the move from Microsoft was a windfall for anyone in the business of enterprise search design and implementation. However, she admitted “we haven’t seen as large a response as we expected.” This isn’t exactly surprising to everyone. “It’s coming.” says VP of Search Technologies at TNR Global, Michael McIntosh. “Corporations have an enormous investment in FAST ESP and it makes sense that they would be reluctant to move to something new until they absolutely have to.” That means, when their licenses expire. “They will likely weigh the performance and support, or lack thereof, for the FAST ESP technical team with the timing of renewing a license and wait until they absolutely have to change to something else,” says McIntosh. The purchase of Autonomy and the shift of HP from hardware to software could signal a recognition from Goliath HP the kind of growth opportunity enterprise search software offers, and that the “great shift” from FAST ESP to another search platform is very much on the horizon. But as the clock continues to tick, companies using FAST ESP should be strategizing for migration now. “It’s an enormous undertaking to migrate an entire search solution from FAST to another platform. Designing a non-trivial search solution to fully meet your needs from scratch is hard enough on its own. If you are migrating an existing solution, it is very unlikely that you will find a one to one mapping of all of the features in a new search engine that you have come to depend upon with your existing implementation. Solving challenging issues like that requires both creativity and expertise to address your needs.” says McIntosh. If a need for migration is eminent, there will be a real need for expertise in the field of enterprise search on both proprietary and open source platforms, depending upon several factors like size, in house talent, and growth expectations. How is your company preparing for the discontinuation of support of FAST ESP? # # # TNR Global (TNR) is a systems design & integration company focused on enterprise search and cloud computing solutions. We develop scalable web-based search solutions built on the LAMP stack. We specialize in FAST ESP and Lucene Solr search applications. End
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