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Atos, EMC and VMware create European cloud company

EMC and VMware are teaming with French IT services company Atos to create a European cloud infrastructure provider, Canopy, the companies announced Wednesday.
Adobe cuts back SME software investment

Adobe will cut 750 jobs and reduce its investment in enterprise software as part of a broader plan to target the fast-growing markets for digital media and digital marketing products, the company announced yesterday.
DotNetNuke simplifies interface with 6.0 release

Keeping up with the fiercely competitive market for open source Web content management (WCM) systems, DotNetNuke has simplified the user interface of its namesake WCM product and added new bits for connecting to the cloud and to Microsoft SharePoint.
Alfresco ECM gets social media module

A social content module for the open source Alfresco enterprise content management (ECM) platform is now available.
Joomla 1.7 expands remit beyond web CMS

With Tuesday's release of version 1.7, Joomla has been redesigned to support jobs beyond its typical duties of web content management. Administrators and developers can now use Joomla's underlying platform as the basis for other types of web applications as well.
Adobe updates Flash Builder and Flex development tools

Digital Enterprise platform integrates LiveCycle business process suite with CQ web content management technology.
Joomla 1.6 update improves layout, permissions and structure

The newly-released Joomla 1.6 improves page layout, user permissions and internal structure.
Drupal 7 is now available

The latest version of the open source content management system focuses on usability
Blue Coat brings application-awareness to PacketShaper range

Blue Coat Systems has introduced application awareness to its packet-shaping appliance range to improve content recognition
Open source ECM firm introduces apps store

Nuxeo has adopted apps marketplace approach to ECM

Latest Features

Five reasons to try Joomla for content management

There are numerous web content management systems available out there to serve the needs of companies large and small, including numerous free and open source options. One that's figured prominently in the news this week, however, is Joomla, which is making headlines for the fact that it recently hit 25 million downloads.
Three major Microsoft SharePoint challenges

Enterprise adoption of SharePoint is rapidly on the rise: A new survey from document management company Global 360 reveals that 90 percent of the survey's 886 respondents currently use SharePoint, with 8 percent using SharePoint 2010.
Why developers like SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010, the newly announced upgrade to Microsoft's popular Web and collaboration platform, is receiving a thumbs-up from developers pleased with the product's capabilities, including its use of Visual Studio as a tool for building SharePoint applications.
Top 10 Google Apps for business

Google Apps is growing up. Over the past six months, dozens of developers have built apps to make Google's office wares (Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar) more appealing for the enterprise. The following is a selection of these apps. They range from the practical (backups) to the creative (a freebie VPN replacement based on Google Talk). Better still, most of them are free.
Four myths about data disposal, debunked

There is a tremendous opportunity for companies to dispose of data and dramatically lower their data storage costs.
What's happening with ECM?

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) seems to be a hot topic and we've been given the views of CYA's CEO, Wayne Crandall, on the current ECM situation.
Revving up its storage horsepower

HP is ramping up its storage business, blading virtually everything, and preparing a new product for massive scale out storage requirements.
Archiving has nothing to do with ?Dusty Vaults?

Archiving terminology seems to have been turned and twisted by a variety of interested parties, confusing the market and hiding its real benefits.
The dash for flash: SSDs get a flash boost

DRAM-cached flash memory solid state drives represent the high-performance end of the on-rushing solid state datacentre invasion. TMS' Woody Hutsell gives his views on what's happening in this leading/bleeding edge area.
Kazeon and the enterprise discovery market

Kazeon asserts that it is positioned to be a major player in the maturing enterprise eDiscovery market. Compliance is a use case of eDiscovery.

How-tos

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Case Study: Power struggle: How IT managers cope with data centre power demands (part 2)

Case Study: Power struggle: How IT managers cope with data centre power demands (part 1)

Case Study: WHSmith builds 3-tier ILM all-EMC set-up

Case Study: SNIA's lab proves storage can interoperate

Case Study: Data centre gets star treatment

Case Study: Automated tools help, but don't cure all patch ills

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