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Getting Started with Acquia Drupal and the Acquia Network

Bryan HouseMarketing Director, Acquia

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Drupal Gaining Market Momentum

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Choosing the Right Technology

A Social Publishing PlatformDrupal “… is as much a Social Software platform

as it is a web content management system.”

CMS Watch, The Web CMS Report 2009blogs

/wikis

forums / comment

s

socialranking

social tagging

users

social networks

workflow

taxonomy

semantic web

RSS

content

analytics

ContentMgmtSystems

SocialSoftware

Tools

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Drupal Basics: Nodes

Nodes are data

Pieces of content stored within Drupal– Text– Images– MP3s– more

Node 7 Node 9Node 8

Node 4 Node 6Node 5

Node 1 Node 3Node 2

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Drupal Basics: Content Types

Define the data components within a node – Fields, images,

integers, date, reference, etc

Configurable out of the box

Unlimited flexibility

No programming required

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Drupal Basics: Modules

Plugins that extend Drupal functionality

More than 4,000 community modules available

Often controlled by role-based permissions

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Drupal Basics: ViewsControls content display– Nodes, comments,

users, taxonomy, and more

Smart query builder for lists of information– Table, grid, list,

custom– Sorting, filtering– Define relationships

Create pages, blocks and RSS feeds

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Drupal Basics: Profiles

Connect users and assign roles

Configure information capture

Build social networks

OpenID support

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Drupal Basics: Security, Roles & Permissions

Define custom roles

Set granular access controls by role– Task / object-based

Configure user behavior:– Registration– Email– Profiles– Pictures

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Drupal Basics: Themes

Content presentation layer– Separate from data

– Defines how content is displayed

Flexible, customizable

Components include CSS files & PHP files with HTML

Can be displayed by user role

Supports sub-themes

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Drupal Basics: Multisite Configuration

Share modules and themes across many sites– site1.com– site2.com– site3.com

Simplify site rollout with reusable site components

Turn on/off modules and themes at site level

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Drupal Basics: Availability Architecture

DB Master DB Master

Web1 Web2 Web3

Load Balancer1Load Balancer2

Load balancers for higher availability & hardware efficiencyMultiple web servers increase page serving capacity, memory sharingMaster/master or master/slave DB configuration for high availability

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Acquia is Your Drupal Guide

What modules should we install?

Where do we get professional support?

How do we keep our site up-to-date?

...Where do we start?

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Acquia, the Drupal Support Company

Enterprise & Drupal expertise

– Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder

– Many leading community contributors in engineering, support, and consulting

– Executive experience @ IBM, webMethods, Broadvision, EMC, HP, Baan, Documentum, Interleaf, Mercury

• 40 employees

• $15M in capital

– Closed $8M Series B in Q2 09

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Supporting Customers, Not Modules

Full Drupal 6.x support

All modules, themes, & custom code

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Packaged Collection of Drupal Essentials

On-ramp to Drupal

Essential modules

Create new sites fast

FREE

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Operate and Extend Drupal Sites

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Unlocking Content with Acquia Search

Built on Apache Solr

Faceted navigation

Content recommendations

No server infrastructure

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Faster is Better

Drupal test siteHardware:•3.2 Ghz processor•1.7 MB RAM

Site:•10,000 content nodes•300 millisecond page load speed

Drupal core search

Acquia Search

Query result time:

1.5 - 7.7 seconds

Query result time:< 500

milliseconds

Performance gain with Acquia Search3x - 16x faster

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Drupal Optimized Cloud-based Hosting

High availability shared clusters

Tuned for high performance

Integrated with developer workflows

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one-stop shopDrupal hosting + application

support

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Drupal + Acquia = Customer SuccessThe Drupal AdvantageRapid assembly approach

reduces custom programming

Modular, extensible architecture optimized for social publishing

Thriving development community

Vast module library

Zero software acquisition cost

Industry standard LAMP stack

Strong security track record

The Acquia AdvantageFull lifecycle technical support

Best practices advisory support

Drupal essentials, conveniently packaged

Fitness & diagnostics via the Acquia Network

Optimized Drupal hosting

Extend sites with cloud-based services

Confidence from an enterprise partner

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Benefits

Accomplish more with less

Harness community-driven innovation

Reduce costs with turnkey infrastructure

Engage your audience