1. A network computer system comprising servers, storage area network and storage, said network computer system further comprising a hardware processor comprising a programmable intelligent search memory for content search wherein said programmable intelligent search memory performs regular expression based search, said programmable intelligent search memory for content search using one or more regular expressions, said regular expressions converted into one or more finite state automata, said programmable intelligent search memory comprising: a. a symbol memory circuit to store symbols or characters; b. a symbol evaluation circuit coupled to the symbol memory circuit to evaluate match of the symbols or characters with input symbols or characters in said content; c. a state dependent vector (SDV) memory circuit to store state transition controls for said finite state automata; d. a current state vector (CSV) memory circuit to store a plurality of states; and e. a state transition circuit coupled to said symbol evaluation circuit, a current state vector memory circuit and said state dependent vector memory circuit to perform state transition from one or more first states to one or more second states of said plurality of states of said one or more finite state automata.