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Moving further into the hosted world just as they promised to late last year, Amazon Web Services (news, site) has announced the release of a handful of new tools for the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Wanting users to spend less time and energy on the “muck” that is operational burdens and system admin, the new tools focus specifically on enabling visibility into the health and usage of AWS resources, enhancing application performance, and giving wallets a little break.

Well this is kind of interesting. Do you have SharePoint Services (WSS) up and running, but would really like to have some web publishing capabilities on top of it. Unfortunately you don’t have the money to invest in full blown MOSS just to get web content management. CompleteSharePoint.NET offers you a solution — a Web content management system built on top of WSS.

We were interested in understanding a bit more about this new Web CMS, so we asked Tommy Segoro — its creator — a few questions.

ADAM Software has been busy working on a new set of features for its .NET-based Digital Asset Management platform. Finally released, ADAM 4.4 offers a set of data source controls in ASP.NET, automated standardized classification and more.

News and events from around the content management industry are coming in faster than we can cover them. But we don’t want to let them disappear into the unknown. Here are a few that we didn’t get to that may interest you.

Bridgeline Unifies Content Management, Analytics and eCommerce with iAPPS: Offers Bridgeline customers a superior user experience through tighter and deeper product integration, more timely and targeted data for improved decision making and additional functionality for more effective management of web content

Oracle has been serious about records management since they stepped up to the plate offering their first enterprise Records Management application in 2007. But that was 10g Release 3. Now it's 11g and it is the only product to successfully pass all parts of DoD 5015 V3 certification testing, including Baseline RM, Classified RM, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) RM. The question is, what are the other enterprise content management vendors doing?

The award-winning folks at CMS Made Simple released CMSMS 1.5.3, continuing their efforts toward giving higher profile Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal, Plone and Joomla! a run for their proverbial money.

This release primarily focuses on bug fixes with some new features thrown in to sweeten the pot.

The award-winning folks at CMS Made Simple released CMSMS 1.5.3, continuing their efforts toward giving higher profile Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal, Plone and Joomla! a run for their proverbial money.

This release primarily focuses on bug fixes with some new features thrown in to sweeten the pot.

We know that SharePoint is most often used as a document management solution in organizations today. But out of the box, SharePoint doesn't have all the necessary features for securing and classifying documents. Titus Labs, a provider of email and classification software, has provided some enhanced features that will help you use SharePoint to keep your documents safe and easy to find.

In October of last year Sitefinity announced version 3.5 of the .NET built web content management solution. That new version was built for optimal performance among other new features and enhancements. With the increasing amount of content that needs be available to a global audience, performance issues are certainly a primary concern for organizations.

That is why Telerik has choosen to not only provide performance optimization within its content management system, but they have also announced the integration of Sitefinity with Amazon S3 for cloud-based storage.

Accessibility is an important part of any collaboration or web content management system. For SharePoint this is no exception. In partnership with Microsoft, HiSoftware has developed an Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint. That toolkit has just been updated to version 2.0 offering a number of new features to help you meet World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints (WCAG 1.0 AA) and the newest WCAG 2.0 AA Candidate Recommendation.

With DrupalCon well under way now, we are hearing a lot of announcements about new services and upcoming features and functionality for the web content management solution. One very interesting announcement is the official beta release of the new Acquia Search to the public.

A hosted search service for Drupal 6 websites, Acquia Search offers a number of advanced features that will help make your website hum with activity.

Most of the time we talk about content management systems that either come in a box to be installed and configured or that are hosted by the content management provider and need to be configured. Rarely do we talk about one that is custom built for each website or web application via a code generator tool. Today we will.

Microsoft made big news when it first announced it was going to offer SharePoint as an online service. As part of an effort to reach new customers and continue to grow revenues, the online service comes in two flavors -- standard and dedicated.

SharePoint Online is part of a greater Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) which also includes Exchange Online, Office Communications Online, Office Live Meeting and the Deskless Worker Suite Online. The BPOS is now available in 19 countries and five languages.

Acquia, the subscription based service and software company behind the popular open source web content management system Drupal, has made some new announcements that mean a change in management and exciting new things for the future of Acquia and Drupal.

Two years ago, eTouch admitted that the enterprise hadn't yet grasped the concept of wikis. Since then, they've expanded their dynamic enterprise wiki to include new functionality and new deployment options. Now they add some much desired social media elements to the latest version of their enterprise wiki.