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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...
Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore running on Windows. This program enables you to get ...
Content Management Systems (CMSs) help you collaboratively create and edit content such as news articles, manuals, guides, images, videos, and brochures and other publications. There are so many that are available on the web as downloadable apps that I’m certain you’ll find one that fi...
The procedure of hard disk recovery has risen to the prominence over recent few years, as a huge amount of valuable data is stored on your storage devices. When you perform any action on your computer system, it means some data and information is written on your drive. Even when the st...
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON'...
I’m going to ask you a few questions. No answers today. Just questions you may want to answer for yourselves. How will you know that the content you are providing is the appropriate content for your prospect base? What skills do you need to have in addition to the ones you alre...
eZ Systems, the world´s largest open source content management software company, announced today that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately.
The new version of SCHEMA ST4 features several highlights, among them the possibility for unified presentation of technical documentation, a new product information management (PIM) module, and more flexibility for the layout of text and graphical elements. In addition, this XML-based ...
One of the most hotly debated questions among marketers and company executives is “What does it mean to be a social business?”Today Acquia, Inc., the enterprise guide to the Drupal social publishing system provides the answer and also reveals what Social Business Software vendors aren’...
His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is a serious re-examination of the foundations of justice from a global perspective. He speaks of the two definitions of justice in Sanskrit - niti (institutional justice) and nyaya (realized justice) - and how we are too often misled by the utopia...
Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For those of you building a Drupal websi...

The recent announcement from Amazon of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) represents the next big advance in the evolution chain for cloud computing. Enterprises can now integrate their IT infrastructure with Amazon's vast computing and storage ...

The French subsidiary of Condé Nast S.A., one of the world's largest private communications groups (Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.), has selected Ingres, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of The New Economics of IT, to develop a critical application to ...
NTFS boot sector is the first sector of an NTFS-based hard drive that contains vital information needed by your computer system to start the operating system. Although the NTFS boot sector is less prone to corruption or damage, corruption or damage can still occur.
42 content marketing tactics, over 50 case studies and hundreds of resources - "The Content Marketing Playbook: 42 Ways to Connect with Customers" is packed with lots of ideas to execute on your content strategy. Read on to get an insider look into the making of "The Content Marketing ...
Extending the enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) capabilities of Oracle's Primavera product suite, Oracle today announced new releases of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's Primavera Contract Management. The new Primavera P6 Enter...
A recent poll shows more than 96% of Healthcare professionals are following Obama's Reform debate closely. The President's new ideals for healthcare are clearly a major issue for the industry and many leading professionals are asking the question ­ Is their business prepared for such c...
WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, an NBC affiliate, has turned its news site into a blog. It actually contains news produced independently of what goes out on broadcast. Very very interesting. It’s a different way of slicing the news, with much debt to Dave Winer’s river of news idea, a...
Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartpho...
Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, today announced that it continues to offer companies an easy transition to Lotus Web Content Management (WebCM). In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations must have the ability to effectively ...
An innovative Internet-based mobile phone services provider, Telmore has been growing rapidly – and so has its online audience. Nearly 50,000 people per day visit the Telmore website, and the company currently has the highest volume of e-commerce transactions in Denmark. Telmore’s con...
In its second purchase in two days EMC said late Tuesday that it was buying eDiscovery shop Kazeon Systems Inc, whose software is used by corporations, law firms, government agencies and legal service providers. Terms were not disclosed and are too immaterial to impact EMC’s result...
Online backup storage from Carbonite is the right tool if you want to automatically back up all the data on your PC. Most importantly, Carbonite is a set-and-forget service. It takes just one minute to download and install and then you're all set. Carbonite is integrated with the Windo...
Here's a brief look at what people are saying about Drupal in Twitter. It's getting hot in here. I'm using drupal http://drupal.org to build a new paid membership site - andabwa User Wall: A simple "facebook" style wall module. Allows users inside the drupal site to view and p...
Wow, look at me, I'm famous. Oh wait, what have I done. Are people going to follow me to the grocery store with cameras now? Probably not, unless the world turns it's attention from Jon and Kate to SAP Business One. But in our little world, this is pretty cool. Orchestra and myse...
Centric, a leading management and technology consulting company, today announced completion of the new web presence for Motorists Insurance Group. Jahia, the premier Open Source web content integration software, has been chosen to power all external knowledge sharing solutions of the r...
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Unfortunately, I don't know anyone personally who uses the company's services. And beyond a few vague testimonials, the company doesn't have any stories of other customers' successes. When prospects are looking for evidence from satisfied customers, are you delivering it? Here are 3 wa...