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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Statistical analysis beats algorithms for language translation, Google says, but which massive volumes of linguistic data will it use? By Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld Google Translate is currently best known for being a quick and dirty way to render Web…
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle’s president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft’s Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press…
“For a long time they’ve held firm on pricing for maintenance, which is their highest margin business, and they’ve really stuck it to their clients,” said Goldmacher. “Now that you have an ever-growing raft of alternatives, more and more traditional…