Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Last week, I followed, nearly real time via Twitter, how Sean Power successfully recovered his stolen laptop. The full story is available, but here are a few excerpted tweets from @SeanPower on 13 May 2011: If you’re getting up to speed: Laptop was taken 4 days ago, but I had to fly to Canada the […]

…exclaimed my coworker, as I had just finished explaining the sudden death of my 1.5TB external drive as well as the mind (and gut) wrenching experience I was having in deciding whether it would be worth it to recover all of my data. $1,850 to get that baby resurrected. I mulled over paying that amount […]

Perficient met up with Denise Hatzidakis, Chief Technology Officer of Premier, Inc. at IBM Impact in Las Vegas. Denise attended the event to receive the Global WebSphere Community award on behalf of Premier. Perficient has had the pleasure of working with Premier to develop their IBM solutions. With regard to the trends Denise saw at […]

http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=ibmimpact&clip=pla_2a282621-5a2e-4189-a113-20828e700259&color=0x000000&autoPlay=false&mute=false&iconColorOver=0xe7e7e7&iconColor=0xcccccc Trouble viewing? Check out the link to the video here Joel Thimsen, Solution Director at Perficient, was interviewed by Scott Laningham, Host of developerWorks, and Todd “Turbo” Watson, Blogger/Technology Evangelist, at IBM Impact in Las Vegas. Joel outlined Perficient’s 12 year partnership with IBM and some of the key trends he has seen when […]

How many notices did you receive about the Epsilon email breach that was discovered on March 30? How did the news of that make you feel toward a compromised company you do business with? Even though only email addresses were stolen, did you wonder whether you needed to worry about more than just watching for […]

Cloud is hot and Boeing has started to dip their toes in the water.  Jim Rubert gave a great presentation on options and pitfalls.  If you have access to the presentation, you should download it. Key Points In 2009, cloud hit the top of the hype cycle In 2010, they started into the trough of […]

Yes, I’m a portal and collaboration guy so you may be wondering what I’m doing at a conference focused on commerce, middleware, and other plumbing.  Truth is a lot of the people interested in plumbing have a huge need for portal and collaboration so I come to support Perficient as we talk to clients about […]

PC Week has an article on Sharepoint in the cloud.  I’m seeing the desire for cloud services among all vendors although Microsoft seems to be sprinting in that direction rather than the running by IBM and other vendors.  I love the quotes about people building applications on sharepoint and that it’s “many things to many […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

You may know eXo from their partnership with JBoss Enterprise Portal. They provided significant content management capabilities to enhance the portal.  They continue to head down what seems to be a unique route with their portal, content, collaboration, and SOA platform.   They are also diving into the cloud with a fury. CMSWire has an article […]

WebSphere Portal 7 includes two new cool features: tagging and rating.  With these new features you can easily allow users to tag and rate portal pages and web content items.  Lets take a look at both of these features in action. Tagging a Portal Page   When using the new Page Builder theme, tagging is […]

eWeek has an article about Amazon’s new CloudFormation services. Think of it like this.  If you have an application, chances are that this application relies on a variety of database, application, storage, and other services.  When you want to scale up and down or you want to move things around, it can be a pain […]