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Earlier in the week Amazon slashed its storage prices on S3. In response, Google -- which just upgraded its cloud services -- slashed its storage prices not once, but twice, reducing the overall costs by 30% in one week.

As we near the end of 2012, it seems like the perfect time to rehash one of the big themes that has pre-occupied enterprises over the past 12 months -- content security. Forrester's Wave Report takes it one step further -- taking an in-depth look at the area of security that enterprises really need to take note of. 

Yes, Virginia, there is life beyond SharePoint.

This week was a quiet one -- with the Thanksgiving Weekend and the US only slowly waking up. That said, there are a few things to announce in the document management space -- Google enabled super-sized Gmail attachments, Cabinet released an iPad app, Quest just announced a new version of MessageStats, and OpenText made Autonomy customers an offer.

The HP-Autonomy snowball just keeps gathering momentum. It was predictable that once HP accused the former CEO of Autonomy of dodgy accounting practices, the lawyers would step in. But it seems that the legal mud will be flying in all directions as an investor jumps in to grab the salvage of the HP-Autonomy business wreck.

I love the smell of dry-erase markers and whiteboard cleaning solution in the morning … in the afternoons … in the evening … on weekends … in my sleep …

Electronic records management is not for the faint of heart.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison could very well be driving around in his US$ 445,000 Lexus LFA right about now, laughing uncontrollably.

It’s time for the Mobile App of the Week. This week our focus is on Accellion for Android, a file management and file sharing application.

CodeTwo has launched what it calls a “new kind” of file sharing. In the updated version 5 of its Public Folders product, users can share Outlook items and any Windows-based file across a local network or through the Net, without the use of external servers.

Anyone that thought Mike Lynch, former CEO and founder of Autonomy was going to sit back and let Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, make all the running on a story that has left the rarefied atmosphere of information management and entered the mainstream, prime-time news, would be underestimating Mike Lynch.

SharePoint 2013 is expected to be available to the public in the first quarter of 2013, and you may be wondering when is the best time to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.

There have been a number of announcements in the GRC space recently, especially in e-Discovery. Among them are the new e-Discovery capabilities in Office 2013 and the release of OpenText’s InfoFusion. Otherwise, Modus releases Early Insights, LockPath upgrades Keylight, while Catalyst and Rimkus partner.

This week, even with the Thanksgiving Weekend, there are still a few notable releases, particularly in the mobile space. EMC, for example, offers workers the possibility of making their presentations mobile, while Alfresco upgrades its iOS app. Also this week, Microsoft is offering a free trial of Office 2013 Professional Pro, while docStar upgrades Eclipse.

Semantic search provider Smartlogic is ready to integrate its Semaphore platform into Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013, and upgrades include more ontology related Web parts and better multi-farm support for large-scale deployments.

 You just couldn’t make this up. HP, formerly one of the New York Stock Exchange’s darlings and until recent times often mentioned in the same breath as IBM, could be set to call in the cops over the acquisition of Autonomy 18 months ago. According to CEO Meg Whitman, someone had been cooking the books before the deal was inked.