Year: 2014
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Amazon can no longer take its cloud leadership for granted
With Microsoft’s strong numbers and Google’s continued progress, Amazon Web Services must realize it’s in a three-cloud race By David Linthicum | InfoWorld Good news for Microsoft: “Strong sales of cloud products to businesses helped lift Microsoft’s revenue by 18 percent last quarter, though its profits declined,” reports Reuters. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in…
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SAP apps heading to Microsoft Azure cloud
The companies are also integrating SAP’s Business Objects with Microsoft’s BI software By Chris Kanaracus | IDG News Service Microsoft and SAP’s long-standing partnership is being strengthened with the pending certification of SAP’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other software for deployment on the Azure cloud infrastructure service. By the end of the second quarter,…
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Amazon wants to run your high-performance databases
The company’s new R3 instances have up to 262GB of RAM By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service Amazon Web Services is making a pitch for enterprises’ high-performance databases to run on its infrastructure, launching new instances optimized for the task. The R3 instance family has been added to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), which…
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Open source Hoodie is tailored for quick app dev
in AppsThe platform for building Web and iOS apps can accommodate users with few development skills By Paul Krill | InfoWorld A quick option for building Web and iOS apps is on the horizon from a group of developers in Europe. Hoodie is an open source tool for building Web applications in days via an open…
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Microsoft’s new open source ASP.Net can run on Linux, OS X
Programmer shows Microsoft’s ASP.Net vNext Web framework can run on Linux and OS X — with some work By Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorldFollow For proof of how radically Microsoft has evolved, especially in terms of its approach to its own software stack, look no further than the newly open sourced and cross-platform incarnation of ASP.Net,…
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Cassandra lowers the barriers to big data
in Big DataAn InfoWorld Test Center overview of the nuts and bolts of Cassandra: A free, open source NoSQL datastore that supports rapid and massive growth By Rick Grehan Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very large data sets (think petabytes) across large clusters of commodity servers. Among many distinguishing features,…
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Microsoft Azure Embraces Outside Technologies
Microsoft has open-sourced its new C# compiler and Azure now incorporates the open source Chef and Puppet configuration managers. Joab Jackson, IDG News Service (New York Bureau) April 03, 2014 As it rolled out tools and features for coders at its Build developer conference Thursday, Microsoft showed that it is ready to embrace technologies and…
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LinkedIn Mobile Stack
Recently released LinkedIn feature on the iPhone, Android, and mobile web platforms contains a step-by-step guided flow to the LinkedIn ecosystem for our new members. This onboarding experience removes the uncertainty of how to get started and effectively use our mobile apps. It also enables our new and less active members to get the most…
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Microsoft Taking Exchange to the Cloud via Office 365
Microsoft recently announced plans to offer Office 365 as part of GoDaddy’s Web hosting service. The move is one small part in the company’s strategy of getting Exchange customers more fully into the cloud, according to one expert. By Anthony Myers Battle of Email Office 365 allows Microsoft customers to access their Office documents from…
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Full speed ahead: Oracle to ship Java 8 in March, even with bugs
Company to focus on ‘showstopper’ bugs between now and then in JDK 8, and wait to fix lesser bugs later. By Paul Krill | InfoWorld Oracle plans to ship JDK (Java Development Kit) 8 on March 18, even if it means the release might have some minor bugs. In a posting to a Java mailing…