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A lot of thought goes into the decision to move part or all of a company's resources to the cloud, but one thing often goes ignored: governance.

We may as well admit it, cloud computing has been changing our lives for some time now. When was the last time you didn't save something to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box? Most, if not all of your information lives somewhere in the ether. Hard drives may come and go, but thanks to the cloud, your life can go on, practically unscathed.

This week in document management we heard how SpringCM has upgraded its content security to enable safer mobile computing. OpenText was also busy this week with not one, or two, but four different upgrades and releases, while Ademero upgraded Content Central to v6.5. Meanwhile, we sat down with Alfresco to find out about the future of cloud computing.

Not too long after the sun came up this morning, thousands of developers rushed out of bed to see what 10gen, the MongoDB Company, was rolling out to its community.

If you live in the Northeast, odds are that you looked out your window a couple of weeks ago and saw snow falling from the sky. Parts of the region were buried under more than three feet of the white stuff, paralyzing the population. The bright side of any blizzard is that the snow, no matter how much, eventually melts away. The same is not the case for email.

You can build the future, you can buy the future, or you can do both. Nearly all of the world’s big tech companies choose the latter. And it’s not that they lack the ability to be innovative or hire the best talent, but because as EMC Chairman Joe Tucci says, “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” 

Enterprise software giant Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, private cloud infrastructure management technology provider. Nimbula solutions are designed to assist users in managing their cloud infrastructure resources and also work in public and hybrid cloud environments.

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.

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.

It seems that OpenText has moved up a gear this month with four different upgrades or releases on the way. Today it has announced the release of BPM Smart Process Applications and OpenText  SecureiX , while tomorrow we will see OpenText InfoFusion and OpenText Archive.

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.