Session: Enterprise Plone: Integrate, Deploy, Maintain and Optimize
Instructor: Alan Runyan
Training Track: Plone Core CMS
Audience: Administrators, Businesspeople, Content Creators, Developers
The Plone CMS lends itself to Enterprise usage due to its flexibility and rich feature set.
We will talk about Enterprise deployment in the context of the Windows and *nix, as these are the most popular environments in the United States.
The target audience are IT professionals interested in "back office"
integration for a Content Management System.
This presentation will cover:
- Various applications in an Enterprise context
- Intranet
- Extranet
- Public websites
- Typical needs of Enterprise customers
- Infrastructure support
- Transactions
- Authentication / Single Sign On
- Security and granularity
- Common integration points, RDBMS/Search/CIFS/etc.
- Common deployment configurations
- Windows / Active Directory / Microsoft IIS / iFilter
- Microsoft Cluster integration
- Unix / OpenLDAP / Apache|Nginx
- Pacemaker / heartbeat
- Performance and Optimization
- How to measure & monitor performance
- Low hanging fruit / Front-end caching
- General strategies and application
- Maintenance and Support
- Development and release process
- Maintenance / Monitoring
- End user support / Training
Prerequisite: This session is designed for new Plone users so there is no prerequisite. We do suggest that you attend all Plone KickStart Program on Monday, May 3rd to gain adequate knowledge of Plone to get the most out of the sessions that follow on Tuesday and Wednesday.
