Alfresco has been working on various ways to bring its enterprise content management platform into the cloud. It started with its Cloud Content Application Developer Program back in September of last year, which “provides an open source Amazon EC2-ready stack and developer kit for customers and partners to develop, deploy and monetize cloud service architecture (CSA) content applications on the EC2 platform”.

More recently, Alfresco teamed with Right Scale to offer a solution that speeds deployment time and automates scaling of Alfresco in the cloud.

As cloud computing continues to buzz in the industry and as more and more enterprises are venturing into the cloud environment, it’s no surprise that Alfresco is expanding its capabilities into that arena.

To test out Alfresco in the cloud for yourself, click here for an Alfresco Cloud trial with a full implementation of Alfresco Share running on the Amazon Cloud.

Alfresco just selected Rivet Logic as the winner of their Americas Partner of the Quarter Award.

Alfresco Partner of the Quarter, Q2 2009 - Rivet Logic

We’re truly honored to be recognized again by Alfresco for our accomplishments. Over the past year, we’ve continued to see strong demand for our Alfresco consulting services as more and more organizations are becoming more liberal towards the idea of open source. Last quarter, we kicked off several new Alfresco projects in a variety of sectors - including higher ed, media/publishing, technology and non-profit.

We look forward to continuing our work with major enterprises, and contributing back to the Alfresco community.

Alfresco recently became the first open source product to demonstrate DoD 5015.2 compliance, which outlines mandatory baseline functional requirements for Records Management (RM).

Achieving this certification opens new doors for Alfresco in the government sector as many government organizations can only acquire products that meet this compliance. Although Alfresco has always had RM capabilities, it wasn’t until recently with its Community 3.2 release that it started working towards the DoD 5015.2 certification.

At the upcoming Alfresco Meetup in Washington D.C., John Newton - Alfresco founder - will be sharing details of Alfresco’s new RM module. And of course, Rivet Logic will be participating as a sponsor.

To register for the event, click here.

Last week was Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. We participated as a sponsor of JBoss World and also gave a few presentations during the breakout sessions. Below are some highlights from our trip:

JBoss World at the downtown Chicago Hilton:

 

Our booth at the partner pavilion:

 

Museum of Science & Industry party:

 

Closing ceremony:

 

Although we didn’t walk away with the overall JBoss Innovator of the Year Award, we still have our category award for Optimized Systems to display in our trophy case….

Until next year!!

The annual AIIM Expo & Conference is less than a week away, and this year, Rivet Logic will be an active participant. Not only will we be exhibiting on the show floor, we will also be hosting a seminar and cocktail reception.

The reception will be held on Wednesday, April 1st, at 5pm at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott adjoining the Philadelphia Convention Center where the AIIM Expo will be held.

The topic of the seminar will be Open Source ECM in Action, an opportunity for attendees to learn from our real-world experiences implementing Alfresco across a wide range of vertical markets & application areas, including a case study from the pharmaceutical industry.

To top off the free food, drinks, and engaging topic, we will also be raffling off a Kindle!

For full event details and to register, please visit
www.rivetlogic.com/reg/mar09/aiim-expo.

And if you’re planning to attend the AIIM Expo, don’t forget to come visit us at Booth #524 or our virtual booth!

We hope to see you there!

In this down economy, enterprises everywhere are looking for new opportunities to cut costs. Why use expensive, proprietary ECM applications and infrastructure when commercial open source alternatives offers dramatically reduced costs, mitigate risk, without compromising on performance availability and supportability?

Join us as Rivet Logic and Ingres Corporation co-host a webcast this Wednesday, March 4th, to see how transitioning to an open source infrastructure with products like Alfresco, Red Hat, and Ingres could benefit your organization as we draw on real-world examples.

Click here to register for this webcast.

The next stop on Alfresco’s Road Show is the Big Apple, which will take place on November 14th.

Rivet Logic customer, Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), will be discussing the details of a major Alfresco implementation that we have under way.   In addition, our CEO will be presenting ConnectedWeddings.com as another real-world example of an Alfresco implementation, with a focus on social networking and Facebook integration.  And one of our technical architects will demonstrate what we think are some of the coolest features in the forthcoming Alfresco 3.0 release.

Some other interesting content to be covered include Alfresco Share, Alfresco Surf, and why the world needs an alternative to SharePoint.

Last but not least, the road show will conclude with one lucky winner walking away with a brand new Apple iPod Touch!

You can register here:
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/11/nyc-road-show/

Rivet Logic will be conducting a joint webinar with Alfresco on November 11th on Web 2.0 powered collaboration. Topics of focus will include how we’ve used Alfresco to build content-rich Web 2.0 collaboration platforms, with examples from real life case studies.

Join us to learn about building scalable yet cost effective solutions that leverage the value of content through a robust content repository like Alfresco. Some new Alfresco 3.0 features and highlights will also be covered.

Register here:
http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2008/11/web2collab11nov08/