Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Some questions can never be answered; they can only be debated but we never get the solution to it. The same is the case for CMSs; people for years have been trying to find out which one is best for them and which is good to manage a website. Open source CMSs have had great success and...
Jahia, provider of next generation Open Source CMS solutions, today announced the commercial release of Jahia 6.5, the first open source, zero-coding, next-generation CMS, featuring a broad range of Enterprise capabilities. The new release bridges web, portal, social, search, mobile us...
Magnolia published a case study detailing how the open source content management brought centralized management to 294 web sites at Texas State University (TSU), winning over faculty and staff, and drastically reducing administrative overhead.
Jahia, vendor of the next generation Open Source CMS today releases beta 3 of its Jahia 6.5 offering. Collaborative and social features, together with incorporated feedback from the community and partners, are defining the future of CMS.
IDC analysts predict that by 2020 there will be 15 quintillion files in existence. That kind of volume has brought us to a point where we are using a term like “exabyte” (and quintillion!) to describe how much data exists. How much of that data will your organization own and how will y...
Jahia, provider of next-generation Java-based open source CMS software combining web, document, and portal, search and social features, today announced a new partner program with the upcoming Jahia 6.5, to serve as a joint breeding ground for innovative solutions and foster project win...
The economic crisis of 2009 presented a false base for many businesses including ours, giving us nothing upon which to produce any meaningful type of growth statistics or trend data but all things considered our result of 400% is still incredible growth by any standards. So in this env...
Assessment of our Corporate Sustainability is often driven by a need to comply in order to achieve the tick in a box for tender activity but is this how it should be perceived?
Surely implemented in the right spirit and with across the board buy-in, this buzz word strategy is a strong...
Box.net, the cloud-based content management company that’s seen $29.5 million in VC funding since it was started in a dorm room in 2005 by a couple of soon-to-be college dropouts – well, $14.5 million if you don’t count Mark Cuban’s angel capital – has gotten another $38 million in equ...
Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-...
Ekumo GmbH's (www.ekumo.de) web-based content management system, which goes by the same name, offers a solution that is suitable for companies with a small editorial department, and for industrial enterprises with sites distributed throughout the world. All functions required to create...
DocPath presents five ways that organizations can benefit from implementing enterprise content management technology.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) will once again be an important means for state governments to control costs in tight budgetary times. In a list published by the N...
Forty-percent of project managers cited poor communication as the leading cause if IT project failures. If everyone involved in your IT project doesn't know what they're working on, when it's due, how to get itdone and who the audience is, how can you possibly expect your project to su...
Jahia, the premier provider of web content integration software, combining web, document, and portal features, announced new government deployments in the Wyoming Department of Transportation and the Australian Development Gateway. Adoptions by these and other agencies confirm that Jah...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and ...
F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking (ADN), on Friday announced that SpringCM, an award-winning cloud enterprise content management platform, uses F5 BIG-IP solutions to meet rapidly growing customer demand. The enhanced application performance and virtual s...
IBM has bought Datacap Inc, a document capture software vendor it’s partnered with for years. Terms were not disclosed. Companies use Datacap’s widgetry to extract unstructured data from stuff like invoices, claim forms and tax returns, reducing paper costs, eliminating manual errors a...
We sat down for a Q&A with CEO Elie Auvray, to get a feeling what the Adobe / Day Software means for the Content Management market in general, and for Jahia in particular.
The announced Adobe acquisition of Day Software, a WCM competitor of yours, strikes us as a bit odd. What does WC...
Swiss-based web content management (WCM) house Day Software Holding AG got bought Wednesday by Adobe for roughly $240 million (255 million Swiss francs).
Adobe is now going to tender for its outstanding stock offering $131.53 a share cash (139 Swiss francs), a 59% premium compared to...
On Wednesday, Adobe announced it was going to buy Day Software, another WCM manufacturer based in Basel, Switzerland, who uses the same technology foundation as Magnolia. As an initiator of the JCR standard and main contributor to Jackrabbit (the JCR reference implementation), Day is c...
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria.
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...
The BBC says that the stolen Green Dam snooping software that China tried last year to foist on all PC makers that wanted to sell boxes in the country is going down for the count.
The Beeb quoted state-controlled reports that said the company let its Beijing team go for lack of gover...
You've heard the phrase "Knowledge is Power". There seems to be a human character trait that says by keeping documents close at hand, preferably within steps of my office chair, I am more powerful. Filing cabinets for individuals, and "working copies" of client files are everywhere in ...
Why should you reach out to that partner organization that has mastered email marketing and that Red Bull chugging, green-colored spiky haired young fella for your social media? They "get it" and you need them on your side. Knowing the weakness and blind spots in your marketing organiz...
The tech world and the financial world are all buzzing today about the same event: Apple’s market cap passed Microsoft’s yesterday.
Microsoft has signed a Joomla! Contributor Agreement (JCA), and there’s some of its code in the Joomla! 1.6 trunk.
That’s Joomla! as in GPL project and, according to Microsoft, the second-biggest PHP application in the world.
It’s a MySQL-based open source content management system...
Sat lonely in my office, I remembered about a website that did everything that ‘Dan the Mexican’ could do and more, a site that pushed our message out to a bespoke and targeted audience, a site that supplied me with just as valuable information as ‘Dan the Mexican’ would give me during...
The coming years will be both exciting and challenging as we collectively migrate to integrated enterprise cloud computing. Speaking of enterprises, I owe all of you an article on preparing your enterprise for the cloud. I continue to work on it, but it's not quite ready yet.
This...
Pew Internet has published the results of an important survey on how we’re getting our news today.
I haven’t read the whole thing but one little point leaps out already:
Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites...
Most conversations I have with marketers revolve around how to feed the top of the funnel and help prospects become sales-ready leads that their salespeople willingly pursue. It's one of the things I help them focus on doing. The problem happens when that becomes the sole focus of mark...
When you publish a monthly print or electronic newsletter that targets an important audience segment, you probably invest heavily in generating the content that will make this newsletter relevant and valuable to its readers. That is obviously critical. But you can do ...
Orchestra is excited at the possibility of having DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco, CA.
If you think it would be a good idea to have DrupalCon here on the West Coast, sign up for the site updates and check out the proposal.
Leave the team feedback and let them know your thoughts ...
Marking its first appearance in San Francisco, Calif., DrupalCon 2010 will take place April 19-21, 2010 at the Moscone Center. DrupalCon is the premier conference for Drupal, the award-winning open source content management framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web develo...
Continuing its robust growth throughout the
global recession, content marketing spending is again
slated to grow in 2010, according to the annual Junta42 content marketing
survey. The majority of marketing professionals polled in the survey plan
to increase their spending on conte...
Alfresco Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration products, an integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere ...
Let's read the analysis of this Turkish newspaper Zaman looking for answers in the age of columnists. The older your columnist, the faster your circulation goes down the tube is the theory presented in the article. "Turkey has a young population, with almost half of its citizens under ...
View the live panel discussion taped on December 8, 2009 at SYS-CON.TV's 4th-floor studio overlooking Times Square in New York City a very special "Power Panel" in which Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and three top industry guests from EMC, Intel and Unisys will be...
Attunity Ltd. announced today that it has partnered with Open Text Corporation, an enterprise software company and a leader in enterprise content management, who will market advanced data connectivity solutions, including legacy decommissioning, data lifecycle management and real-time ...
Alfresco Software open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and RightScale, cloud computing management, announced the availability of a joint solution that speeds deployment time and automates scaling of Alfresco software in the cloud. Utilizing RightScale's software-a...
Amazon and Google announced on Wednesday partnership between Amazon’s self-service advertising program, and Blogger, the award-winning blog platform from Google. This new collaboration enables Bloggers to monetize their content by adding relevant Amazon products to their blog posts wit...
