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Has EMC Documentum Lost Its Way?

Ed Alexander — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:02 +0000

EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint reveal a vast divide in both resolve and vision. EMC will tell you that Documentum is the obvious choice for enterprise implementations managing very large data and content inventories. EMC begins in the basement (with disk and server) and provides infrastructure that content-able implementations can exploit for the end-users benefit. …

Microsoft Online Services General Manager Discusses BPOS

Ed Alexander — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:43:43 +0000

Bharat Shah is the General Manager of the Microsoft Online Services Engineering division and is responsible for providing Microsoft’s business productivity software in the cloud. The video bellow is from Microsoft Channel 9 and discusses the BPOS engineering work that is ongoing.

Flying High in Cloud Computing

Ed — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:09:50 +0000

Several hours of my life Tuesday night were spent with my head in the clouds. I was attending the "un-conference" conference on cloud computing dubbed CloudCamp in Indianapolis. The interesting discussion - generated around topics such as the very definition of the cloud and even the appropriateness of its use for various implementations or components - got me thinking about what is available and what is still missing from existing frameworks.

IT spending back in the clouds for 2010?

Ed — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:24:49 +0000

David Cearley of Gartner is reporting that IT spending will rebound from 2009 levels in the coming year. However the increased spending will only recover about half of the 2009 decline. I think that the interesting thing is where that money is thought to be headed. Cloud computing is now number 1 on the list of "Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas for 2010".