SharePoint Archiving Journal

This book is unique in the library of SharePoint 2010 books I own. It is a recipe book for entire solutions. The recipes take you from compiling the requirements to the implementation and the management of the final solution. The solutions covered in the book include: Building a Project Management Solution Building a Training Registration Management System Building a Basic FAQ Solution Building a Learning Center Building a Help Desk Solution Building a Remote Teams Activity Site Building a Team Blog Platform Building an RFP Response Solution Building a Contact Management Solution Building a Resource Scheduling Solution Although the solutions in the book are good, they are not what I found to be its most valuable asset. The process the authors walk you through and the way they teach you to think about the design of the solutions is the most valuable part of the book. Each soluti... (more)

Proofpoint Announces First Quarter 2012 Financial Results

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT) Total revenue of $24.6 million, up 31% year-over year Subscription revenue of $23.3 million, up 45% year-over-year Billings of $23.9 million, up 25% year-over-year GAAP net loss of $4.8 million compared to $5.1 million in the same period last year Non-GAAP net loss improves to $2.0 million from $2.8 million in the same period last year Operating cash flow of $0.2 million during the first quarter Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading provider of security-as-a-service solutions, today announced financi... (more)

Storage Old, New and Past Due?

It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT. The Old Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet.  Tape and backup may not be seen as cool  - but data protection is an essential requirement of sustainable data management and tape still provides the one of the most cost effective methods of data protection and of course archive.  This has happened because tape continues to innovate.  Tape drive speeds and media capacities con... (more)

Yammer Named a Leader in Activities Streams

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- Yammer, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Social Networks, today announced it was named a Leader in Activities Streams by Forrester Research Inc., in a new May 2012 report: "The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012." Yammer received the highest scores for its current offering and was ranked among the highest scores in 16 out of 19 criteria, including adoption strategy and market presence with more than 5 million users. According to Forrester, vendors in the Leader category have a strong current offering, proven stra... (more)

Brightcove Transforms Web Experience Management with Video Cloud CMS Integrations

Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services, today announced a series of content management system (CMS) integrations enabling millions of website publishers to capitalize upon the rapid growth of online video. Using the Video Cloud platform to add video to CMS workflows is easy thanks to pre-built Video Cloud integrations available today for Adobe CQ5, Agility, Atex Polopoly, Drupal, Ektron, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, PaperThin CommonSpot, Sitecore, and WordPress. The integrations make video a central part of the Web experience management eco... (more)