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Monthly Archives: October 2009
IT spending back in the clouds for 2010?
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″. Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, General IT Trends, Virtualization
Tagged Cloud Computing, IT Spending, Virtualization
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In-Context Content Creation/Active Governance within CMS Tools
I was working with a major pharmaceutical company that wanted to consolidate web content into a single CMS system (in this case Documentum, but later moved on to SharePoint). When the client did their due diligence to discover all the content that had been created and was being maintained they found over 400 internal web sites dedicated to things like bowling and other non-essential topics. Money well spent? Probably not in this economy. Continue reading
Free CMS Tools are Changing Client Expectations…
Many PHP based CMS tools are now available for hosted web applications and provide many of the basic features found in SharePoint and Documentum WebTop. While it isn’t surprising to see folks attempt to build out a high quality, feature rich, affordable solution these days, there is an interesting twist on the story. Most of the open CMS tools have focused more on “composition” capabilities rather than extending core library services. In a nut shell, today you can register a domain, pay for hosting, select one of many CMS tools pre-installed by the host provider and create your web presence or application by simply clicking through the UI. Let’s equate “Composition” with “No-Code Solution”. Continue reading
