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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.

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.

You can say what you want about Microsoft, but one thing you can’t accuse it of is not listening. You may recall the storm of protest across the Web a couple of weeks ago when it became clear that the licensing agreement on the new Office 2013 release limited each license to a single machine. Well, according to a blog post from Microsoft, it has caved in to consumer pressure.

Moving part or all of your business to the cloud is a challenge (to put it mildly). But there are some steps you can take to ease this transition.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft were going strong in their ongoing spat over cloud pricing early last December, but then things got quiet. Now Microsoft has announced the acquisition of MetricsHub which should add a little bit more edge to its Azure offering by providing software to monitor and automate resource allocation for Azure.

Office 365 and the release of three new business SKUs dominated this week in document management news, with the ripples of the release being felt with complementary solutions launched by MetaVis and KnowledgeLake. In other news, Metalogix announced some new developments around StoragePoint, Office 2013 got a new touchscreen guide and Version One rebranded.

OpenStack, the open source platform for building public and private clouds, has now gotten a big boost from a big player: IBM. 

Everyone is doing big data, or least it would appear so from the forums, blog posts and media articles currently appearing on the Web. But big data solutions are expensive and require investment in human resources and technology, which not every enterprise has the resources to do. So how widespread is big data adoption? Open source integration specialist, Talend went to the market to find out and came back with some interesting results.