An FTP server, news server and Web search engine.

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The Mini was launched a year ago as a scaled-down, blue version of Google's bright yellow Search Appliance--essentially a rack-mounted server that businesses could plug into their network infrastructure for searching up to 100, 000 shared files and Web pages.

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With all this reliable power, no wonder the internet search giants like Google and Yahoo have for years built their biggest server farms in the Northwest.

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According to Google, thousands of enterprise customers have already purchased and deployed the Google Mini, a small server that companies, governments and schools can use to search through their own systems.

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Technologies like Splunk were built to help IT staff search and summarize machine data, but with just a small amount of enhancement web server log data can track in real time the flow of customers through pages, the products that are going into shopping carts, and the rate of transactions.

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With SeaMicro's fabric technology and system-level design capabilities, AMD will be uniquely positioned to offer industry-leading server building blocks tuned for the fastest-growing workloads such as dynamic web content, social networking, search and video.

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