Archive for Microsoft
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Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building functionality
When it comes to building private clouds, Microsoft is planning to offer customers two ways to go: One using its Windows Azure cloud operating system on forthcoming pre-configured Windows Azure Appliances; and one assembled of various on-premises components atop Windows Server. On August 15, Micr...
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Microsoft vs. Salesforce the court case
Packaged software king Microsoft and cloud computing prince Salesforce.com are duelling in US courts, with each accusing the other of violating its patented technology. The legal battle comes as Microsoft strives to adapt to a trend toward programs being offered as services in the internet "cloud...
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Why Microsoft Windows Azure is a threat to Google
By Charlotte Dunlap Microsoft's new features announced last week to its cloud computing platform, Azure, gives developers the option to build applications in the cloud via Microsoft's data centers, rather than in a company's server. Giving customers this sort of flexibility in IT and software ...
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Microsoft adjusts SQL Azure pricing
From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is raising the storage ceiling for SQL Azure to 50 GB (for the Business Edition of its SQL Azure service), as of June 28. The Web edition also get a higher 5 GB ceiling, starting June 28. The business edition will be billed at 10 GB increments, and the Web edition...
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Microsoft: Enterprise customer growth accelerates private cloud strategy
From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is making a number of announcements around tools and database tweaks for its Azure cloud platform at this week’s TechEd conference. But I’m more interested in some of the more subtle clues I’ve been picking up about the Softies’ future cloud strategies and...
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Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan
Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan's economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized...
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Microsoft reveals CDN pricing for Azure
In November 2009, Microsoft announced its intentions to add a content-delivery network (CDN) capability to its Windows Azure cloud offering. At the end of May, the company announced pricing plans for this functionality. The Azure CDN extends the storage piece of the Windows Azure cloud operating ...
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Cloud vs OpenXML: Microsoft has a preference
Microsoft will base support for the final OpenXML standard on customer demand. The market leader at this point prefers to move its clients to cloud computing, said Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division. He considers cloud offerings a good extension of the desktop software that Mic...
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Can Cloud Computing help improve security
Cloud computing adds security challenges, but also provides opportunities to improve security posture, according to Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft. In addition to traditional threats such as cross-site scripting, code injection and denial of service, c...
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Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computin...
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Microsoft wins contract for cloud computing with University of Arizona
The University of Arizona at Tuscon - the state's flagship university - recently announced that it has awarded Microsoft with its contract to handle the school's planned shift to cloud computing. Starting next fall, the school's students and faculty will use Microsoft's Business Productivity Suit...
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Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing
Interesting new Windows Azure related video. David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between ...
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11 Things to Know About WPC Sessions
With a little more than a month until the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington, D.C., session descriptions are beginning to appear in earnest on the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) Portal. We've scoured the available listings for some highlights. Steve Ballmer Keynote. The ...
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Makes perfect sense – WordPress and Windows Azure integration
A free and open source plugin developed by Microsoft is the latest example of PHP and Windows Azure interoperability to come from the company, after various other offerings, including a PHP software development kit for the Cloud platform. By leveraging the plugin, customers running WordPress will...
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Microsoft sues Salesforce.com
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Salesforce.com for allegedly infringing nine unspecified Microsoft CRM-related patents. Microsoft posted a statement on its Web site acknowledging it had taken legal action on May 18. Here’s an excerpt from that statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate v...
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Google not too concerned about Microsoft’s threat in the cloud
Great article from PCworld: Of the challenges that could keep Google from reaching its goal of using Google Docs to move in to the enterprise, Microsoft may be one of the biggest barriers. Google and rival Microsoft are battling on several fronts: search, browsers, operating systems and o...
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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 5 of 7): Building Applications for the Cloud
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of "wow" – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, a...
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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 4 of 7): SQL Azure
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of "wow" – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, a...
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Microsoft harnessing the power of machine learning
Microsoft wants to harness the power of machine learning — the statistically driven computing concepts that animate search engines and recommendation services — and other techniques to reduce power consumption, according to Rick Rashid, the senior vice president overseeing Microsoft Research. ...
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Marc Benioff is at it again…
Marc Benioff is at it again In this interview with TechnologyLive.com, he absolutely assaults IBM and Microsoft and characterizes both companies as having "done a terrible job over the last decade". Some of the gems from the interview: TL: Surely you're not ruling out Microsoft and IBM in thi...
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Windows Azure MMC 2 available for download
A tool designed to streamline the management of Windows Azure hosted services and storage accounts has been upgraded to version 2. Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC) 2 is currently available for download, having been updated on the MSDN Code Gallery since May 10th. Softpedia readers already r...
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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 3 of 7): Windows Azure Storage
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of "wow" – and based on your feedback, we organized and recorded this ...
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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 2 of 7): Platform Overview for Developers
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of "wow" – and based on your feedback, we organized and recorded th...
