It doesn’t take much activity in the realm of Twitter to find that these acronyms (ECM, CMS & WCM see the Glossary at bottom of page) produce some strong opinions at 140 characters per post. There are arguments to exclude programs or include SaaS solutions under the CMS umbrella. There are polemics about some mainstream systems like Sharepoint.
As most of my friends know, I’m a storage junkie. I’m addicted to storing every digital scrap I get. Currently my main home computer has about 2.5Tb; yeah, that’s terabytes with another 650Gb of storage shared on the network in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit. My wife’s computer has less but still I think it has about 250Gb storage.
My current NAS is 95% full and the lack of free space is slowing down access (I’m sure there are some badly fragmented files but I can’t defrag it until I free up more space).
I’m considering the following storage options:
I needed a quick tool to convert document numbers to filenames. We have an old tool that someone either wrote or we found somewhere but everything’s in the interface and it’s not totally accurate so I wrote a quick .NET component into which you can pass the document number and it’ll give you the calculated portion of the filename. Add that to the DocServer_Loc and Path, the Version and SubVersion and voila you’ll pretty much know the filename.
The interface I wrote with this already has the Version and SubVersion options (default configurations have 99 versions and 26 subversions plus the “!” to indicate no subversions). The interface also has minimal error handling.
On Sunday, David Drummond, the Sr VP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for Google posted to Google’s blog about Microsoft’s $45 billion bid for Yahoo. Interspersed with his rhetorical statements and calls on governments to investigate the potential for unfair trade practices he characterizes the discussion as being about the inherent “freedom” of the Internet.
Google has offered to help Yahoo “fend off” this offer and Yahoo appears to be considering this option.
This is a continuation from this post.
Recent changes in governance and oversight engendered corporate cultures that place a premium on the ability to audit and manage resources. The policies inherent can appear arbitrary and confusing to business users as IT resources struggle to work within newer workflows designed to support these requirements. Often there is a disconnect between functionality that users can enjoy in their private lives and what they must accept at work. Tools that are easily downloaded and customized to empower families and friends to share and collaborate via real time voice chat, digital photo albums or whiteboard utilities may not be sanctioned corporately giving rise to frustration when a user’s parents or her husband can appear to be less technically savvy and yet share images cross-continent so that mere minutes after Mom has taken pics of Little Johnny, the child’s grandparents can order prints from the local Wal-Mart or Costco and yet the workplace IT staff appear incapable of understanding or caring that tools exist that would enhance users’ ability to share data and functionality.