I wanted to talk to you to see if you were currently on project somewhere, because I have a year long contract in California on a State Entity application for a Documentum TaskSpace Consultant. Give me a call or shoot me an email to let me know your status, as I would greatly appreciate it. I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,

Tyler Cone
Global Touchpoints
916-878-5949

BS/BA College Degree

Certainly DCTM has been moving in the right direction with CMIS (via DSS) support and refactoring much of content server into the JBoss layer. As I have stated before the license model has not been inviting to a service provider model (SAAS) as evidenced by the lack of offerings. Documentum continues to be an on-premise solution.

Filestores may be another item ripe for upgrade. While EMC provides multiple methodologies to abstract file storage from the physical disk volumes, I am not aware of many cost effective mechanisms for achieving endless storage with acceptable retrieval times (or time to first page view in imaging solutions). EMC Centera is fantastic on-premise solution and a great model, but perhaps an Azure based solutions would better fit the bill allowing for the emc content server to more appropriately be scaled to an unlimited number of CPUs dynamically without regard for the management of virtualized hardware or disk.

I have been and remain interested in creating such a configuration and would entertain partners in this endeavor which would need to include migration methodology, search, image viewer, etc…

Regards,
Ed Alexander

I am curious to understand why you think that Documentum architecture is not suitable for the cloud? They support virtualisation and with the new DSS even search will support virtualisation.

What aspects of the architecture do you think – make it unsuitable for the cloud?

thanks