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The earth may rattle and jaws may drop in Silicon Valley this afternoon when EMC Greenplum introduces Pivotal HD, the world’s most powerful Hadoop distribution in history. (The latter according to EMC Greenplum).

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SAP introduced a mobile content management solution called SAP Mobile Documents that offers a single entry point to user content from any mobile device.

Last week, we discussed how to create a successful BYOD policy. It involves focusing on the people using the devices and the sources of information they want to access from their device, rather than the device itself. Further emphasizing this need, Centrify has released a set of integrated capabilities that goes well beyond mobile device management. The new platform can deliver secure, enterprise-class mobility while improving security and increasing productivity in the enterprise.

Further evidence that big data is going mainstream is the announcement from Hortonworks that its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDPW) is available in beta, making it the first Apache Hadoop distribution that is available for both Windows and Linux.

Way back when, in the days when Microsoft starting talking up Office 2013 critics of the Redmond giant made some pretty pointed comments about slow-coach Microsoft and the cloud. There may have been reasons to suggest that the company was behind the times with a desktop office suite, but the recent issues around licensing of Office 2013 shows exactly where it is putting its money.

In another SharePoint related announcement this week, Socialtext announced three new points of integration between SharePoint and Socialtext, as more companies start preparing their product portfolios for the release of SharePoint 2013, expected for this quarter.

SharePoint governance and infrastructure management technology provider AvePoint is releasing DocAve 6 Service Pack (SP) 2. This latest version of AvePoint’s enterprise-class management platform for SharePoint governance includes expanded SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 support.

IT solutions provider Barracuda Networks has released Copy, a cloud- based file storage and sharing tool. With Copy, users are able to share, view and sync files from any device, at any time.

Apple's App Store is ready to dispense some new document management fun with the KnowlegeLake Capture for SharePoint ECM app. iOS users can share documents and images right into their workflows with the free app, and SharePoint devotees are now that much closer to a deskfree workspace.

As pervasive as technology has become in people's daily lives, it should come as no surprise that nearly everything around us is available online. Outsourcing of many types of jobs has been a popular practice for 25 years, and now Lionbridge, a company known for providing testing and translation technology, has built a cloud based outsourcing platform.

Our mobile app for this week is Air Watch’s Secure Content Locker app, the company’s mobile content management solution.

Enterprise mobile file sharing solution provider Accellion is releasing the Accellion Mobile Productivity Suite. This new package of applications provides users with secure access to and sharing of Microsoft Office documents, as well as photos from iOS mobile devices

Ask the average IT professional to name SAP’s claims to fame, and chances are they’ll tell you about its enterprise business applications such as enterprise resource planning (SAP ERP), enterprise data warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects and so on.

What are the characteristics of a data-driven business? A new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Tableau Software, of more than 500 C-level and senior business executives sought to examine exactly that.

By this point anyone involved in the world of digital content management is familiar with the intricacies of Big Data. But is Big Data already being eclipsed by an emerging concept known as “Big Knowledge”?