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While many enterprises are still wrestling with the problems of cloud computing and whether they should make the jump, a small number of companies are providing stepping stones to the cloud that can make the transition less painful -- Alfresco and its hybrid model is one of them. Alfresoco’s Director of Cloud Services David Gildeh sat down with us last week to explain what this is all about.

This week has been a busy one for Microsoft. Outlook.com went down because of overheating in data centers while there have been a couple of releases for SharePoint including Metalogix for big files and ShareVault’s document transfer for SharePoint. Kofax has also upgraded is capture capabilities.

The crowd was wildly snapping pictures and the star of the show grabbed his camera and started snapping back. Fans who surrounded the spectacle started then taking pictures of the audience and the icon taking pictures of each other. It was like a moment from a rock concert, with the exception that instead of throwing guitar picks to the audience, the superstar was throwing HTML5 stickers and was the biggest geek (a term I use with love) in the room.

If Infochimps’ new CEO delivers half as well as he sells, then Fortune 500 companies will be lining up to move their data -- Big Data, streaming and still -- on to the company’s Infochimps Enterprise Cloud.

Yesterday, OpenText announced the general release of its Smart Process Applications and its enhanced file transfer service SercureiX. Today, it has announced the availabity of its Information Access Platform that discovers and analyzes unstructured data across the enterprise, and OpenText Archive for archiving all information in a single silo.

There was a day, seemingly eons ago, though less than 40 years, when computer automation was just reaching its adolescence and major systems had to be carefully conceived and implemented with technology that was often as much impediment as resource.

Surprise! Surprise! (But not really.) EMC today announced that it is spinning off a new company, Pivotal Initiative.

Why should Big Data remain in the hands of IT? Alteryx believes it doesn’t have to, and, with its April release of its Strategic Analytics platform, the company says it is further advancing the Consumerization of Big Data. 

Prime-time television drama doesn’t get better than this. By December last it looked like there was little more to be said about the the HP-Autonomy dispute until the court hearings. But like an IT cornucopia, it just keeps giving. Late last night it was revealed that the Serious Fraud Office that is investigating the scandal in the UK is -- wait for it -- using Autonomy software.

Organizations looking to move any development into the cloud have yet another reason to choose Amazon as the company rolls out virtual private clouds to new instances of its EC2 computing system.

Huge data flows can yield virtual gold mines of insights, predictions and other analysis, but what happens when the text-based data is in multiple languages? To address Big Data’s Big Language problem, customer engagement provider SDL has announced that its cloud-based BeGlobal machine translation (MT) solution can now integrate with text analytics processing, boosting the ability to track customer sentiment and business trends in multiple languages. 

Uncertainty is inherent in any plan. But there are actions that can be taken to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes and to reduce risk.

Box is going to very busy over the next year or so as it prepares for its IPO. In the meantime it needs to keep users happy -- after all, happy users generally means happy investors. Last October Box launched Box for Windows 8. This week it is tweaking that and adding some more.

e-Discovery is normally thought of as a legal process related to the identification, gathering, analysis and transfer of data (e.g., documents and email) for lawsuits and other legal matters but though that is true, e-Discovery is at its core, a risk management issue.

For its first acquisition of 2013, OpenText has bought a long-time fellow traveller Resonate Knowledge Technologies (KT) which has been working with the OpenText Content Server and Enterprise CMS offerings for a long time.