Tag: Microsoft
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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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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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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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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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Gartner MQ For Horizontal Portals: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Lead + 8 Emerging Trends
in CMSBy David Roe. A quick look back at Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals over the past two years compared with this year’s Magic Quadrant seems to point to a stagnant market. However, while IBM, Liferay ,Microsoft, Oracle and SAP still dominate the Leaders’ Quadrant, there are subtle shifts in emphasis across the entire Magic…
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Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday
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 event follows Oracle’s earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a…
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Reflecting on Yammer and Office 365: SharePoint is Definitely Dead
in SoftwareMicrosoft sees Sites as an almost standalone service offered by Office 365, rather than the interconnected Intranet style system offered by what we knew as SharePoint. By Chris Wright (@partnerpulse) Mar 20, 2013 Last month I wrote an article that stated SharePoint, as a brand, would soon disappear. It seems with Microsoft’s recent announcement regarding…