Chris Palmer

Chris Palmer

Chris is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Vivísimo. Chris brings over 15 years of experience in research labs and academia to the company. In his role as CTO, Chris oversees the designing and building of its core enterprise search technology, which powers the search engines of worldwide organizations.Prior to Vivísimo, Chris was a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, working on database and data-mining problems. He has authored more than 20 papers in a variety of disciplines including text databases and information retrieval, distributed systems, relational databases, data mining, groupware and clustering.Chris received a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Math degree from the University of Waterloo.

Achieving High Availability in Enterprise Search

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

As organizations roll out search applications to end-users in order to provide a single point of information access, a funny thing happens - users become reliant on it and expect that search will be always “on” - just like it is on the web. However, many search applications on the market were not designed to address the demands of high availability, leaving customers to develop their own solutions and workarounds to address the problem. Given that search is becoming much more ubiquitous within the enterprise, designing search software with system availability should be a requirement for vendors. Let’s take a look at the challenges of how to make search reliable and the problems associated with an adhoc approach.