Open Source Talk

I was recently interviewed by Jessica Ann Mola of ebizQ about “Virtualization and Cloud Computing”. The interview discussed the following points.

• What Alfresco is hearing from their customers and community on their needs and desires around the cloud
• How the benefits of cloud computing differ between SMBs and large enterprises
• The importance of Open Source to the cloud
• Alfresco’s current and long-term cloud computing strategy
• Outside of ECM, other industries that can benefit most from cloud computing

The full transcript is available at ebizQ.

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Have fun listening.

ian

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Welcome to another Alfresco Open Source podcast. I have with me today Carlos Miguens who drove our Records Management strategy that led to the recent DoD 5015.2 certification and headlines like:

“Pentagon certifies Alfresco records management app”

What this podcast is about is Records Management in “Plain English” and the Top 10 Records Management Terms”.

• Historically Records Management has been  very complex and very specialized. In Plain English What is Records Management?
• Why is Records Management important and why has it become more important recently?
• Who needs to uses Records Management?
• I remember us talking about a recent AIIM survey on the state of Records Management. Can you summarize that for us?
• What happens if a company does not have effective Records Management?

Records Management is riddled with complex terms. I’d like you to describe a few in plain English for us This is my Records Management Plain English Top 10:

1. Audit Trail
2. Authenticity
3. Disposition
4. Disposition Instruction
5. File Plan
6. Freeze
7. Life Cycle
8. Record
9. Record Identifier
10. Retention Period

• What were the primary goals of Alfresco with regards to Records Management?
• What is DoD 5015.2 and what is the significance of it?
• What other standards are there and what are Alfresco’s plans there?

Thank you for listening
We’ll be following up with more podcasts on records Management and more podcasts in Plain English

ian

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Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 has major new functionality in the areas of:

• Enhanced Records Management
• Mobile Access
• Email Client Access and Archiving via  IMAP support
• Enhanced CMIS Support
• Extranet Collaboration
• WCM Parallel Deployment with significant performance improvements

and is what we recommend for all new and existing community members. It is immediately available for download at:

http://www.alfresco.com/32

Much of what 3.2 is about is captured by Forrester’s drivers for 2009:

• · Reduce Cost – Core to Open Source
• · Improve Integration – CMIS
• · Increase Innovation – Mobile Support and Email Management/Archiving
• · Increase Support for Regulatory Requirements – Foundation for Records Management

In this podcast I discuss with Paul Hampton, Director of Product Marketing, this new release.

Good Listening

ian

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Alfresco Labs 3 Final is a milestone release for Alfresco Labs and is what we recommend for all new community members. We also recommend this as a download and upgrade for existing community members.

It is immediately available for download under the open source GPL license at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Labs.

In this podcast I discuss with Mike Farman, Director of Product Management ECM Products, this new release.

1. What is the major driver behind the latest release of Alfresco Labs 3?
2. Given that the focus is on a content services platform what standards are you  focusing on?
3. Can you review what is new in Web Content Management?
4. Can you review what is new in Collaboration?
5. Can you review what is new in Document Management?
6. Can you review what is new in Email Management?
7. The other critical part of a content platform is scalability. What is new in regard to performance?
8. To scale on the cloud multi-tenant is important. Can you explain how Alfresco has implemented multi-tenant?
9. How can users find out more information?
10. How can a user try out the new version?

Good Listening

ian

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