Building High Performance Web Sites using Ektron

Ensuring that your web site is ready to scale for thousands and potentially millions of customers is a critical component of any web site development project. Factors that affect scalability are incredibly diverse, including hardware hosting configuration, the use of caching, performance testing, architecture of the CMS and its accompanying implementation and many others. It’s critical to understand that simply purchasing and installing Ektron won’t result in a highly-scalable web site. The site has to be architected, built and maintained according to high performance best practices. 

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Brian Browning joins Ameex Technologies

On November 1st, 2012, Brian Browning joined Ameex Technologies, a leading provider of web content management consulting and staff augmentation services, as Vice President. In this capacity, Mr. Browning works with customers to select WCMS platforms, supports pre-sales efforts, oversees the implementation of WCMS solutions and provides guidance and support to the rest of the executive management team. Additionally, Mr. Browning provides strategic guidance to Ameex clients in determining how to evolve their WCMS platforms to maximize their online effectiveness. 

More information about Ameex can be found at: 

http://ameexusa.com/

Ektron SYNERGY Presentations Posted

I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to present 2 presentations to this past year's SYNERGY Event. To download copies of the presentations, please click below:

Content Migration: Do we HAVE to? (PPTX File) 3.8 MB

 

The Content Migration presentation was a lot of fun to put together and share with the audience. Addressing manual and automated approaches to content migration, the deck included sample formulas to help users size their content migration efforts and resources. It concluded with a presentation by Jason Arden explaining how to leverage Ektron's API to automatically upload transformed content into Ektron.

Link to online webinar: http://www.ektron.com/web-content-management-solutions.aspx?id=7436

Enterprise Architecture and Ektron (PPTX File) 5.9MB

This presentation focused around the unique needs of enterprise-level organizations when it comes to hosting infrastructure, integration with third-party and legacy tools, applications and data sources and provided best practice tips on configuring e-Sync within an enterprise environment.

Ektron Book Released

I am excited to announce that the official Ektron Developers Guide has been released. Authored by Bill Rogers, Aniel Sud and Bill Cava, the official Ektron Developers Guide is a fantastic guide to all aspects of developing Ektron-powered web sites. I contributed chapters on the Ektron web development methodology and how to develop the CMS Implementation Guide.

Published by Wrox, the Ektron Developers Guide is available now at Amazon.com at:

http://www.amazon.com/Ektron-Developers-Guide-Building-Powered/dp/0470885696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296403479&sr=8-1

It is also available for the Kindle platform from the same location. 

Brian Browning to present 2 Presentations at Ektron's SYNERGY 2010 Annual User Conference

Ektron SYNERGY 2010 Annual User Conference

On Tuesday, November 9 at 11:30 AM:

Enterprise Architecture and Ektron 

What does having Ektron in place mean to your enterprise? How does it fit into your infrastructure and what are the best ways to integrate it with your systems? This session will provide IT professionals with the insight they need to take full advantage of Ektron's extensibility and integration capabilities. Get a look inside of the Ektron software and learn how to maximize your enterprise architecture's efficiency.

Presenter: Brian Browning, Senior Director of Client Services, Ektron

On Tuesday, November 9 at 3:00 PM:

Content migration: Do we have to? 

Certification Session

Learn how to migrate your content in no time. Best practices will make this often daunting process easier and eliminate downtime. Brian Browning, Ektron’s director of east coast professional services will discuss the steps you need to cover planning your migration path including tips for creating content inventories that will speed up the process. Jason Arden, director of partner engineering will then demonstrate how to programmatically move content into an Ektron environment. Manual migration processes will also be covered, with both the benefits and drawbacks to each explained in detail.

Presenters: Brian Browning, Senior Director of Client Services, Ektron and Jason Arden, Director of Partner Engineering, Ektron

To find out more, attend the Ektron SYNERGY 2010 Annual User Conference!