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Acquia Receives $7 Million Series A Financing

Drupal open source collaboration and publishing platform secures commercial backing

North Andover, MA, December 19, 2007 — Acquia, Inc. today announced it has secured $7 million in a Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners, with additional investment from Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to create value-added software and network services around the popular Drupal open source web collaboration and publishing platform. Company founders are Dries Buytaert, original creator of Drupal, and Jay Batson, previously founding CEO of open source VOIP software company Pingtel. Read full article »

The "New" New Way to Innovate on McKinsey's Technology Trends

Posted on August 16, 2010 - 11:09am by Thomas Erickson.
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McKinsey’s latest quarterly includes an updated list of top technology trends to watch. The list was first published over two years ago and described eight tech-business trends that were reshaping strategy across industries. Since then, the social web has exploded, creating a quandary for executives on “how to help their companies capitalize on the transformation under way.” Read full article »

Drupal 7 code sprint at Acquia on August 17

Posted on August 9, 2010 - 9:21am by Dries Buytaert.
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On Tuesday August 17, Acquia is sponsoring a day-long code sprint at our offices just outside of Boston. During the sprint, we'll concentrate on addressing as many of the core Drupal 7 critical issues as possible. Read full article »

Views for the average Joe

Posted on August 2, 2010 - 10:24am by Jeff Noyes.
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The primary goal of DrupalGardens is to maximize Drupal adoption. Since Drupal adoption amongst developers is taking off like a rocket ship, we’ve focused the majority of our attention on site builders and designers. To succeed at attracting these types, Drupal—and the modules we’ve decided to include—need to be easy to use. Read full article »

Capgemini promoting and using Drupal

Posted on July 29, 2010 - 11:24am by Dries Buytaert.
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This year in my keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco, I mentioned that the elephants are coming. Well, earlier this week Capgemini, one of the world's foremost consulting providers with 95,000 employees, announced a new service, Capgemini Immediate. I'm pleased to say that they're using Drupal as a foundational technology for their new Immediate platform. Read full article »

Welcome to Michael Walsh, and our big move to DC!

Posted on July 28, 2010 - 1:13pm by Tim Bertrand.
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I'd like to send out a warm welcome to one of our newest hires, Michael Walsh. Michael will be helping the company run, grow and manage our Public Sector business - both Program Management and Business Development. He also is responsible for opening our official field office in Washington, DC on Connecticut Avenue. With this move, and additional hires in the DC area , we feel confident that we will be able to better serve our customers and partners in this domain even more effectively. Read full article »

Drupal Gardens now in open beta

Posted on July 22, 2010 - 2:09pm by Dries Buytaert.
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Today we’ve reached another important milestone at Acquia: Drupal Gardens is now in open beta. No more beta codes. No more waiting to try the service. Now anyone can access Drupal Gardens and create a free Drupal 7 site! Read full article »

Acquia Search: an update after one year

Posted on July 2, 2010 - 10:47am by Dries Buytaert.
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About 20 months ago, at Acquia, we began working on a hosted offering for Apache Solr, an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Exactly one year ago, we launched it commercially as Acquia Search. Time and the public reaction have proven that we made the right choice. Read full article »

Cloud computing offers many advantages and challenges for hosting Drupal sites. Acquia Hosting is a highly available cloud-based hosting platform tuned for Drupal performance and scalability. Acquia Hosting built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), takes advantage of an industry leading cloud-computing platform to provide the highest levels of security, fault-tolerance and operational controls possible in the cloud. This Webinar, featuring Barry Jaspan, Senior Architect at Acquia and Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist Amazon Web Services, discusses how Amazon's Web Services can help Drupal site developers and managers solve common but vexing problems, including scaling. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) components will be discussed in detail.

In addition we will discuss specific best practices for: Read full article »

  • Creating a high-performance, high-availability Drupal tuned hosting environment on AWS
  • Load balancing: Elastic IP vs. Elastic Load Balancing
  • Handling user-uploaded files with multiple web nodes
  • Achieving true high-availability with multiple availability zones
  • Choosing between Amazon Relational Database Service and building it yourself
  • Configuring and managing your cloud servers
Date & time: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist, Amazon Web Services and Barry Jaspan, Senior Architect, Acquia
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Acquia Network Subscription Intergration

Posted on June 21, 2010 - 9:32am by Sherry Thompson.

Thank you for the free subscription and the straight forward instructions on how to integrate with my site which I plan to do when it's fully developed. Thank You!

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