In today's Content Technology Podcast, I speak with with Deane Barker, the Content Management Practice Directory at Blend Interactive, on a topic with which he has a lot of first hand experience: content migration. Deane recently gave a presentation at the Gilbane Content Management Conference titled Truth About Content Migration, where he discussed the Four Phases of Content Migration and shared many "battle tested" lessons he's learned given the many content migrations under his belt. Listen in as Deane and I discuss common pitfalls and how they're avoided through process and

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Organizations have become digital hoarders, clinging to every piece of data in hopes of one day extracting some insight that yields a competitive advantage. Not even Moore’s law is sufficient to explain the current rate of data growth. Research by IDC projects total data storage will soon exceed 1.8 zettabytes -- that’s 1 billion terabytes, or in more concrete terms, over 57 billion 32GB iPads.1.8 zettabytes infographic (source: Mashable)Big Data = Big ContentThe term "big data" has emerged to describe this phenomenon, and for many it spawns thoughts of massive database tables and spiraling

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With the v8.5 release of Ektron comes the ability to develop and deploy a website using a 3-tier architecture, comprised of a front-end for presentation logic, middle-tier for business logic, and a data-tier for data persistence. In recent developer webinars, I've covered both the 3-tier basics (Ektron & the 3-tier Architecture) and the advanced topics (Advanced Development in a 3-tier Architecture). In this blog post, I'll answer one of the most common 3-tier related questions by helping you to understand when to use 3-tier architecture, and when not to.Using v8.5 doesn't "make your site

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I'm currently travelling back from the Chicago Developer Meetup, on the heels of wrapping up the Boston Developer Meetup, and with all this travelling now have a fantastic travelling tune from Johnny Cash and Lynn Anderson stuck in my head. (Click that link - it'll get stuck in your head -- "I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor. Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo").Sidenote: If it isn't obvious I'm a Johnny Cash fan, it'll become so if you ever hear my youngest, who's just

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For the past two months, we've been focusing our technical webinars, podcasts, and blog posts on all the shiny new things available in version 8.5 to help developers understand the significance and scope of what's changed in the latest release, and developer feedback has been extremely positive.If you've missed the webinars, or are just starting to work with 8.5, I recommend blocking off some time to go through all the resources below before getting v8.5 installed. There's a lot in v8.5 to get your arms around and you'll find these resources extremely invaluable. The highlights of Ektron 8.5

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