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Drupal has emerged as one of the world's most durable, feature-rich and customizable open-source website content management systems. Reliable, high-performance hosting begins with good planning.

This week the Friday 5 looks at the viability of SSD in the enterprise, software testing in the cloud and what exactly the Scrum Master does all day

Powerful companies like Google and VMware are fighting for a chance to be the enterprise front end to the Cloud. There is a battle going on in the Cloud and it's happening whether it's a private cloud or a public one. That battle is for the soul of your cloud front end. It's nothing more than a web page, a portal if you will, that acts as a single point of control and access, but vendors like Google and VMware are fighting hard for your loyalty.

Don't let the Linux argument fool you. The Chromebook is nothing more than a neutered laptop and end users are not going to like being locked in the browser 24/7.

This week's links look at disaster recovery in the cloud, Flash is still alive and well in training and programming skills you need to make more money.

ActiveState just opened a developer preview for Stackato, an in-house, open source development environment built on VMware's Cloud Foundry. But instead of using Ruby as the default as Cloud Foundry does, it lets you build web applications with Python and Perl.

Open source web content management systems may have a lot going for them, but they are going to need to appeal to marketers if they want to succeed in the enterprise -- and that may mean getting less geeky.

When Google introduced ChromeOS last week at Google I/O, it might have added to consumer and IT confusion by adding yet another operating system to Android and Honeycomb.

It has been a horrible few weeks for cloud computing and when you have 3 well publicized outages from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon, it's going to make you take notice, but it's not the end of the Cloud by any means.

Google announced its long-awaited Chromebook last week, which is basically a tablet with a keyboard. I'm here to tell you for the perfect blend of cloud, mobile and elegance, get an iPad.

This week's 5 links include Vint Cerf on cloud standards, if process is killing developer passion and a cartoon on mobile development run amok.

When a cloud vendor like Box.net teams up with a traditional on-premise vendor like EMC, customers win because they get access to Cloud services without ripping out existing software.

Honeycomb was released to the world and by all reports it's not nearly ready for prime time. Google may be able to take a go-slow approach with its software and release versons like this, but tablet makers don't have that luxury -- not with Apple running away with the tablet market.

Rumors are flying about a long-awaited cloud service from Apple, and it's about time Apple finally broke the bonds with the desktop and iTunes.

While I tend to push back against the easy negative responses to each and every cloud disaster, when Amazon reported some customers experienced unrecoverable data loss last week after their outage, it got me thinking.

This week, the 5 links for developers and IT pros include the meaning of Agile, Amazon EC2 outage work-arounds and a humorous look at closing IT Help Desk tickets.

Cloud haters had a field day last week when Amazon EC2 went down and took down a bunch of popular Internet services with it, but while haters love to hate, the Cloud will survive and thrive in spite of it.

This week, we explore the link between Monty Python and software development, the sorry state of software security and if lazy developers really fear Agile and Scrum

We all should be afraid, very afraid at the prospect of the US Senate taking on legislation to regulate the cloud. Can you think of anything that could stifle innovation faster than the US Congress?

VMware introduced an open Platform as a Service (PaaS) called Cloud Foundry last week, that has to be intriguing to any IT pro reluctant to go with a choice like Microsoft Azure and risk vendor lock-in. But it's also brand new and in Beta and as such still has to prove itself.