While information technology experts have finally come to understand the concepts and benefits of the Cloud, the actual process for deploying their systems to the Cloud utilizing PaaS and IaaS can still remains elusive. For organizations and enterprises using LifeRay Portal the ability to deploy LifeRay Portal to Amazon's cloud services just got easier. Liferay Portal Community and Enterprise Editions have been added to the BitNami Cloud Hosting application library, enabling one-click deployment of Liferay to the Amazon Cloud.

In a brief announcement today, e107 Inc. announced the release of v1.0.2 of its popular website content management system. The 1.0.2 version of the e107 CMS includes some important security fixes as well as several new features:

In CMS Report's mailbag this week we received an email from one of the press folks representing eBay as well as Magento, an eCommerce platform and shopping cart. As we reported last year, eBay agreed to acquire Magento and since then, eBay has placed Magento under the banner of X.commerce. X.commerce intends to bring together the technology assets and developer communities of eBay, PayPal and Magento to support eBay Inc.'s mission of enabling commerce.

Deployed for sophisticated projects by global and recognizable brands, Jahia xCM gets even smarter and now allows non technical users to fully control the User Experience on any mobile device.

Washington, DC October 18 2012 - Jahia, provider of the next-generation Open Source CMS, announced today the availability of the new version of its flagship CMS solution: Jahia xCM 6.6.1. Even though digitized as “minor”, this new version unlocks new authoring interfaces, providing major improvements in the areas of mobile rendering and related in-context edition.

This month, Google announced that it has officially moved its Apache page speed module, mod_pagespeed, out of beta. For those websites running on the open source Apache HTTP Server, this module speeds up your site and reduces page load time. On the Internet, where user demand quick page rendering, this Apache module automatically applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) without requiring that you modify your existing content or workflow.

"All of this means that it might be time to rethink what we need from content management in a mobile context, and if it's the same as what we needed in a client-server one. The challenge is figuring out what your needs truly are in this brave new world, and what they are going to be a year from now. Are you one of the companies that truly requires command and control, or is your priority content access on any device at any time?"

- Ron Miller, Author and Editor, "Mobile disruption blows up content management", FierceContentManagement, October 15, 2012

During the past couple years, I've had the opportunity to get to know DotNetNuke and their open source community much better than I had ever expected. Shaun Walker, a founder and CTO of DotNetNuke Corp., is also a visionary leader and over the past few years I've come to know and respect the man quite a bit.

Acquia, a commercial software company that provides enterprise level products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system, recently reached another milestone confirming their company’s ability to deliver secure hosting services for government web sites and online communities. Today, the company announced that it has received a FISMA Authorization to Operate (ATO) for Acquia Cloud.