File System Index Solution

[remsaw]

First an appology if this is not the correct forum. I am not sure exactly where is the best place for my question.

The goup I work with has a common shared folder which is a huge mess. There is years of engineering data in it, but not a lot of rhyme or reason, and finding information from this data is a nightmare.

The folder is over 1.5 TBytes. There are about 165 top level folders, and many of these folders of course have sub-folders.

Is there an application available which will index this folder and make it searchable? I have Google Desktop on my PC, and have indexed a few of the folders which I use. However, deploying Google Desktop to 15 machines and having them all index 1.5 Tera Bytes seems kind of wasteful and inefficient. There has to be a better way. I am thinking of perhaps some sort of search engine we could load into that folder, and then everybody could access the index.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Scott

 

[porkchopexpress]

Well it's not cheap but the Google appliance is for this very purpose.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/

Also Windows live search & Desktop search

http://www.microsoft.com/livesearch/windowssearch/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/hp1.mspx

When you are the IT director, it's your job to make sure the IT works. If it does work they know already and if it doesn't, they don't want to hear your pathetic excuses.