Digital Asset Management

If you’ve ever been curious about what would happen when a cloud service fails, then you don’t have to wonder any longer. Earlier today, customers of T-Mobile and Sidekick data services provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, lost access to all their data. Some believe that this data wipeout is because of a botched upgrade. [...]

Google releases an API that lets programmers move data freely to and from Google Sites. The API gives developers full read/write access to all Sites content. Application developers can use the programming interface to write programs to migrate Web pages, documents and other content from intranets, content management applications and other wiki applications. The API [...]

Soaring online demand stretching companies’ ability to deliver content as net uses more power and raises costs The internet‘s increasing appetite for electricity poses a major threat to companies such as Google, according to scientists and industry executives. Leading figures have told the Guardian that many internet companies are struggling to manage the costs of delivering [...]

Cloud computing may be the most overhyped information technology term in recent memory, surpassed only by the ubiquitous Web 2.0 moniker. As a venture capitalist focused on investing in the infrastructure and platform-as-a-service segments of the cloud, this hype has prompted a slew of startups to flood my inbox, all claiming to be the revenue-generating equivalent [...]

Many in the content management industry (and beyond) seem to be slightly obsessed with the buzz that the “cloud” is. The opinions can be quite polar, but for now we’ll concentrate on those embracing virtualization. In today’s interview, Emmanuel Garcin, VP and GM in North America for open source CMS provider Jahia (news, site), shared his thoughts [...]

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 posts read via RSS every week. (Around a [...]

People love to quibble over cloud computing definitions, so let’s lay this one out: This article’s about infrastructure as a service, where companies rent virtual servers as needed for a variety of uses. Here, we’re digging into gritty practicalities not often discussed, including pricing and contract rules. Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud service is the best [...]

Rackspace, the erstwhile managed hosting provider who is pushing hard to be an open alternative to Amazon, Microsoft, etc., took a step towards putting some order in their ecosystem with the release of a new portal called Cloud Tools. Rackspace jumped into the Cloud game with an acquisition of a tool for their future ecosystem. They [...]

St. Petersburg, FL – Responsive Solutions, creators of CUSTOMER+, a leading web to print and online marketing automation system powered by Adobe InDesign Server, will be unveiling significant product enhancements at Print 09, the largest North American trade show for the graphic arts scheduled for September 11th through 16th, 2009, at McCormick Place, Chicago. Responsive [...]

Back in June I was invited to speak as part of the London leg of TIBCO’s NOW roadshow, which focused primarily on Cloud computing and TIBCO’s new Silver offering (you can see what we think about that specifically in this report). My job was to talk about “articulating the value of Cloud computing”. This was a fun challenge: [...]