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Having launched technology startups now for 10-plus years in Silicon Valley, I am asked by many entrepreneurs the same question over and over: Where, or rather, at what event should I launch my brainchild? The goal for entrepreneurs is usually the same: to get media coverage and meet ...
We’ve all known the person that believed they knew everything there was to know about topic X. In IT this person is so commonplace that I have wondered if there isn’t an advanced cloning device that spits them out on a daily basis. While this self confidence (or bravado, whichever) in ...
10gen wheeled out an enterprise edition of MongoDB this week as part of a new subscription level, certified for deployment on several operating systems and making good on why the company raised $42 million last year. The widgetry includes Kerberos authentication for security, reported...
This article is a summary of a seminar I attended on the key to an engaging presentation. Following up on my prior article, how to deliver effective demos, here are some guidelines how to deliver effective presentations. This is a summary of an excellent seminar I attended, given by T...
Businesses live and die by their ability to sell. Despite common belief, the key to successful selling in the cloud doesn't rely on the technology infrastructure behind the scenes -- the real key is in billing. In essence, a cloud solution is an agreement between the vendor and the us...
Let’s start with some acronym disambiguation. The term CMS can be used to denote Content Management Systems, Content Management Services, Change Management Systems or Configuration Management Systems in IT alone. Let alone the Calcutta Mathematical Society (it does exist, we checked)...
Poor benighted Kodak. It thinks its 1,100 patents, which it has to sell to pay off its creditors, are worth somewhere between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion but was reportedly able to attract initial auction bids of only $500 million from bidders like the rival consortia led by Apple an...
EMC has $5.65 billion in cash in the bank and Bloomberg says it wants to buy security software houses with it to fuel growth. COO Joe Goulden told the wire service last month that security is the biggest area for potential acquisitions since the company already had “all the key par...
HP has introduced HP Configuration Management System 10, a broad update designed to give more types of IT leaders better insight and control over everything from discrete IT devices to complete services-enabled business processes. Especially important for the operational control of hy...
The federal judge who’s been minding Novell’s billion-dollar WordPerfect antitrust suit threw out its remaining claims Monday theoretically bringing the generation-old dispute dating to Windows 95 and the reign of Bill Gates to an end. Novell however says it’s going to appeal the ben...
Creating a Vulnerability Analysis is a quick and dirty calculation to help you begin the protection process. Nothing speaks to a business owner like the threat of losing money, losing customers, or losing employees. If you are tasked with "figuring it out", the following calculation is...
How well have you planned your content distribution on partner sites to help buyers? You have to fish where the fish are and often it is at another company's website. Providers need to make their content available that matches the buyer's steps at their partner's websites. If planni...
As digital marketing technologies and cloud-based marketing automation push IT systems from the back office to the front office, CIOs and IT Directors must start educating themselves about sophisticated new marketing tools, techniques and analytics, according to to Marketo, the fastest...
As the head of marketing, your most important internal client is the CEO. It is often said that the CEO has to identify with the brand messaging. The brand messaging needs to be in harmony with the CEO at the end of the day. It needs to match the CEO in quality and narrative. Buyer...
A start-up called Donuts Inc. says it’s raised more than $100 million in A round funding for the dubious purpose of becoming a registry for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) say like, maybe, .restaurant, .cleaning or .doctor that will be sold through other registrars like GoDaddy. Au...
With the goal of connecting the estimated 1 million Australians living abroad, the nonprofit organization, Advance, is using Tendenci content management system as a key component of its community engagement toolkit. Tendenci CMS, recently released as an open source product, is designed...
The great mid-May Facebook IPO has reportedly been delayed maybe until mid-June waiting on Mark Zuckerberg to wrap up whatever else is distracting him right now besides his billion-dollar Instagram acquisition or the $550 million patent deal with Microsoft, which also mean the company ...
Millions or even billions have been spent caring for tens of thousands of pregnant men in the U.K. For UK’s chronically underfunded National Health System, a few hundred million or a few billion is a very big deal. Especially given how easily this problem could have been prevented wi...
Houston Museum District Association has launched its new website, http://houstonmuseumdistrict.org, powered by Tendenci (www.tendenci.com) content management system (CMS). With Tendenci CMS, which was designed specifically for non-profits organizations (NPOs) and associations, Houston ...
When Google+ was unveiled last year, a lot of content marketers wondered if they really needed another social media platform to develop and maintain. But, with the more recent introduction of Search Plus Your World, Google+ is getting harder to ignore. So if you’re still figuring out ...
This is the third blog post in a series of blog posts about open source Content Management Systems (CMS). You can find the first two parts here (Part 1) and here (Part 2) . In the last article in this series we covered Xoops, Seotoaster, e107, Concrete5, and Typo3, five leading Conten...
In the last article in this series we covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, and b2evolution, five leading Content Management Systems. In this article we talk about the next five: Xoops, Seotoaster, e107, Concrete5, and Typo3. 6. Xoops Xoops (eXtensible Object Orientated Portal Sy...
A content management system (CMS) is a system facilitating efficient production of desired output by using managed content. The content may be text, images, graphics, documents, sound, video or other that can be managed in an electronic format. It is a software application used in uplo...
Content Management Systems (CMS) have become one of the most powerful Internet-related products. What once was a gadget for web developers and technology geeks is now a must-have tool for multiple business units. Because of the pace at which the world of Internet technology changes, an...
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...