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    Acquia Cloud API
    Barry Jaspan talks about extending and enhancing Acquia Cloud with Cloud API
  • Acquia Cloud Hooks
    Watch Barry Jaspan do a demo of Cloud Hooks which are custom scripts that automate Drupal database tasks on your behalf.
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    Acquia Search
    Watch Chris Pliakas talk about Acquia Search, powered by the Apache Solr search engine.
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    Acquia Search - Facets and Relevancy
    Chris Pliakas tells you how to configure search facets and relevancy for your Drupal sites
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    Acquia Cloud Free
    Learn how to get started with Acquia Cloud Free in 5 easy steps.
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    Step 1 - Set Up Git (Free Tier Series)
    Learn how to set up and get started with your Git Repo
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    Step 2 - Install Drupal Distro (Free Tier Series)
    Watch a demo of installing Drupal Distro with Acquia Cloud Free Tier
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    Step 3 - Import Site (Free Series)
    Check out this video to learn how to import an existing site on Acquia Cloud Free Tier
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    Step 4 - Connect Site To Acquia Network
    Connect your site to Acquia Network to use Insight, Acquia Search and Mollom
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    Step 5 - Deploy Code and Content (Free Series)
    Learn how to drag-and-drop to deploy code and content using the Acquia Cloud UI.
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    Acquia Network
    Michael Cooper talks about our total application assurance platform, the Acquia Network equipped with suite of tools to amplify the quality of your sites.
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    Acquia Network - Insight
    Watch Michael Cooper talk about Acquia Insight, a performance review tool that inspects your Drupal sites against 3 parameters: Performance, Security, and Adherence to Best Practices.
  • Instant Insight
    Scan your Drupal Site for free with Instant Insight and see how your site scores.
  • Acquia Cloud - Overview
    Watch Barry Jaspan talk about Acquia Cloud, a drupal-tuned cloud hosting platform for your Drupal sites.
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    The First Drupalcon Story
    Ever wondered what the very first Drupalcon was like? Let's take a nostalgic trip to 2005

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Don’t wait to migrate. Drupal continuous migration

Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2014 by Jakub Suchy
Whether you are just moving to Drupal or upgrading to a new version of Drupal, if you are starting with an existing website, you are facing the same problem: Your migration timeline. It will take you significant effort to move everything you have to... More
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The Power of Drupal Multi-site Part 2: Hosting Infrastructure

Posted on Thursday, February 13, 2014 by Cameron Tod
In my previous post, I wrote about how multisite is a powerful mechanism for code management. In this post, I am going to talk about how to manage multi-site at an infrastructure level, and the considerations you should take when deciding upon your... More
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“The Force” is with Twitter’s Brand Strategist at Apps World

Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by Ryan MacInnis
Cross-posted with permission from Digital Disruption SAN FRANCISCO - The dust has settled and the inflatable Android blow-up dolls have been put away...Apps World North America is officially over. I finished Day 2 with probably the best talk I... More
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The Power of Drupal Multi-site - Part 1: Code Management

Posted on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by Cameron Tod
Drupal has a fantastically useful feature called Multi-site - it allows you to serve many sites from a single Drupal codebase. This can greatly reduce the overhead of managing code across multiple sites, and enables great agility in launching new... More
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Apps World North America: Day 1 Recap

Posted on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 by Ryan MacInnis
Cross-posted with permission from Digital Disruption After eight hours of panels, startup and app presentations, and a keynote by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, day 1 of Apps World North America is complete. Here are some of the highlights: Steve... More
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Acquia Dev Desktop

Drupal-specific xAMP stack installer that enables you to quickly set up Drupal locally on your Windows or Mac. It comes equipped with:

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Acquia Drupal comes with a set of essential Drupal modules to make it easy to get started with your Drupal development.

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Acquia Cloud is a Drupal-tuned scalable and secure cloud hosting platform for your Drupal sites. Enjoy powerful developer UI's, multiple environments, multi-site hosting, secure server access using SSH, and automated deployment from your version control repository.

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Complete application assurance platform with suite of tools, knowledge base and support services that can amplify the quality of your sites. It offers 24X7X365 support and a library that consists of 800+ how-to Drupal articles and comprehensive product demos and documentation.

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Acquia Insight

Performance testing tool that gives you greater visibility and control over the sites you build. Examines and scores your site for performance, security and adherence to best practices and notifies you of critical alerts and warnings about your site vulnerabilities.
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  • Conducts ~130 tests to rank your site
  • Performs thorough source code analysis
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Acquia Search

Acquia Search is a fully managed cloud service that integrates quickly with Drupal applications. It is built on the Apache Solr search engine and is a part of the Acquia Network suite of tools. It also uses open source libraries like Apache TIKA.
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  • Faceted search interfaces using Facet API
  • Result filtering and weighting
  • Multisite and multiple Drupal version searches
  • Multi-entity and attachment searches
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You can protect your online reputation against unwanted spam using content moderation tool Mollom. Mollom uses sophisticated techniques to block spam and malicious content automatically.
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  • Uses machine learning techniques to block spam
  • Text analytics functionality detects profanity
  • Centralized CAPTCHA service prevents approved users from having to solve it
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