By Janakiram MSV  During the last two years, Microsoft has upped the ante on Machine Learning and Analytics. From hiring top notch data scientists to acquiring niche startups, Redmond has made the all the right moves to transform Azure into one of the best analytics platforms. These investments have sta... Sep. 10, 2017 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,113 |
By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudistics, an on-premises cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Cloudistics deliv... Sep. 6, 2017 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,986 |
By David H Deans  Information technology (IT) advances are transforming the way we innovate in business, thereby disrupting the old guard and their predictable status-quo. It’s creating global market turbulence. Industries are converging, and new opportunities and threats are emerging, like never before... Aug. 12, 2017 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,259 |
By Andreas Grabner  DevOps is speeding towards the IT world like a freight train and the hype around it is deafening. There is no reason to be afraid of this change as it is the natural reaction to the agile movement that revolutionized development just a few years ago. By definition, DevOps is the natura... May. 17, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 24,638 |
By Liz McMillan  The essence of cloud computing is that all consumable IT resources are delivered as services. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, demonstrated the concepts and implementations of two important cloud computing deliveries: Infrastructure as a... Apr. 7, 2017 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,262 |
By Pat Romanski  In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Claude Remillard, Principal Program Manager in Developer Division at Microsoft, contrasted how his team used config as code and immutable patterns for continuous delivery of microservices and apps to the cloud. He showed how the immutable patterns hel... Jan. 26, 2017 08:30 AM EST Reads: 9,630 |
By Lori MacVittie  When we talk about the impact of BYOD and BYOA and the Internet of Things, we often focus on the impact on data center architectures. That's because there will be an increasing need for authentication, for access control, for security, for application delivery as the number of potentia... Nov. 5, 2016 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 19,505 |
By Jim Kaskade  My favorite writer, Gil Press, sums it up with, “It’s Official: The Internet Of Things Takes Over Big Data As The Most Hyped Technology” where he talks about how Gartner released its latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and how big data has moved down the “trough of disillusion... Nov. 2, 2016 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 19,884 |
By John Basso  Microsoft took another step toward being king of the cloud hill when it announced in January that it was releasing its Azure stack to the public. There are many technical reasons why this is cool, but more importantly, it's the psychological advantage this gives Microsoft.
Google has... Oct. 31, 2016 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,040 |
By Janakiram MSV  Since its introduction in 2009, Microsoft Azure has gone through a significant transformation. What started as a hardcore set of platform services is now a force to be reckoned within the infrastructure market as well.
According to Gartner, Azure is inching closer to AWS, firmly secur... Oct. 30, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,534 |
By Pat Romanski  While DevOps promises a better and tighter integration among an organization’s development and operation teams and transforms an application life cycle into a continual deployment, Chef and Azure together provides a speedy, cost-effective and highly scalable vehicle for realizing the b... Oct. 13, 2016 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,854 |
By Srinivasan Sundara Rajan  The newer Windows 10 devices with the Hello extensions are definitely going to have a cost implication, but in today’s context in our own consumer world where every individual has access to Smartphones with advanced biometric features, why should the enterprise user continue to use the... Sep. 25, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,237 |
By Janakiram MSV  In the first part of this series, we discussed the evolution of Azure IaaS and role of Azure Resource Manager. The next installment of the series explains the key differences between Azure Service Management (ASM) and Azure Resource Management (ARM) models. We will also take a look at ... Sep. 20, 2016 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,192 |
By Pat Romanski  Aspose.Total for .NET is the most complete package of all file format APIs for .NET as offered by Aspose. It empowers developers to create, edit, render, print and convert between a wide range of popular document formats within any .NET, C#, ASP.NET and VB.NET applications.
Aspose com... Aug. 27, 2016 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,216 |
By Liz McMillan  Continuous testing helps bridge the gap between developing quickly and maintaining high quality products.
But to implement continuous testing, CTOs must take a strategic approach to building a testing infrastructure and toolset that empowers their team to move fast.
Download our gui... Jul. 31, 2016 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,403 |
By Liz McMillan  In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Yoseph Reuveni, Director of Software Engineering at Jet.com, will discuss Jet.com's journey into containerizing Microsoft-based technologies like C# and F# into Docker. He will talk about lessons learned and challenges faced, the Mono... Jul. 28, 2016 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 10,481 |
By Pat Romanski  @DevOpsSummit taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City, and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the le... Jun. 11, 2016 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,205 |
By Elizabeth White  The cloud era has reached the stage where it is no longer a question of whether a company should migrate, but when. Enterprises have embraced the outsourcing of where their various applications are stored and who manages them, saving significant investment along the way. Plus, the clou... Jun. 5, 2016 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,588 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Hanu Software will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Leveraging best-in-class people, processes, and technologies, Hanu provides high-quality, hig... May. 31, 2016 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,753 |
By Mihai Corbuleac  The market for cloud computing continues to grow and defy all expectations. Startups are starting to slow down, but the big three - Amazon, Microsoft and Google - reported excellent earnings last quarter. Who exactly are “The Big Three”? Who are the others? What do MSPs need to know in... Apr. 3, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,641 |
By David Bermingham  Over the past year, Microsoft has been introducing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) as the preferred way to provision and manage resources in its Azure cloud. ARM is the successor to the original Service Management model, also known as “Classic.”[1] While Classic will continue to be suppor... Mar. 27, 2016 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,184 |
By Elizabeth White  Two-thirds of organizations implementing hybrid cloud report they’re already gaining competitive advantage from their hybrid environments and are nearly three times as likely to use it to assemble data assets or monetize data, according to findings released by IBM (NYSE: IBM).
With ... Mar. 19, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,900 |
By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Men & Mice, the leading global provider of DNS, DHCP and IP address management overlay solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Men & Mic... Mar. 17, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,139 |
By Elizabeth White  Getting adequate test coverage in a pre-production environment and catching issues before the changes go live has always been a challenge in cloud-based environments. There are different practices to performing testing in production.
In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Bhuvaneshwari K... Mar. 9, 2016 02:30 PM EST Reads: 6,179 |
By Dana Gardner  The arrival of the Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview marks a turning point in the cloud-computing market and forms a leading indicator of how dramatically Microsoft has changed in the past two years.
The cloud turning point comes because the path to hybrid-cloud capabilities and... Feb. 27, 2016 09:15 AM EST Reads: 5,282 |
By Pat Romanski  Never feel left alone. Get help from various support channels including a public issue tracker, community forum, and comprehensive online documentation. With a TeamCity Enterprise Server license, get priority support and direct access to the core development team for quick and quality ... Dec. 17, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 5,177 |
By Liz McMillan  Evolve IP has announced its participation in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program. The program enables Evolve IP to offer an integrated suite of Microsoft cloud services including: Office 365, Hosted Exchange, Skype for Business, Windows Intune and more. In addition to integra... Dec. 17, 2015 08:02 AM EST Reads: 2,349 |
By Liz McMillan  OpsHub, Inc. has announced enhanced support for DevOps and Migration for both Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio On-line in a heterogeneous environment.
With added support for build and release entities in OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) Microsoft customers can now leverage Vis... Dec. 16, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 4,375 |
By Jordan Sanders  There is no way to avoid index fragmentation in any SQL Server environment. It does not depend on your SQL Server version or I/O subsystem you have, or your hardware. In this article, we will drill down into SQL Server index fragmentation issue. We will figure out why index fragmentati... Nov. 20, 2015 09:03 AM EST Reads: 1,992 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  The WebRTC Summit 2016 New York, to be held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. W... Nov. 5, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 4,312 |
By Keith Mayer  In part 5 of our “ Open Source + Azure ” series, Keith Mayer welcomes Tatiana Lavrentieva to the show as they discuss how you can deploy Linux Containers in the cloud using Docker and Microsoft Azure.
[ 2:32 ] What is Docker and how are organizations using Docker and Azure together?... Oct. 28, 2015 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,977 |
By Elizabeth White  As more and more data is generated from a variety of connected devices, the need to get insights from this data and predict future behavior and trends is increasingly essential for businesses. Real-time stream processing is needed in a variety of different industries such as Manufactur... Oct. 7, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,588 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy  Azure IoT Suite became Generally Available starting September 29. This suite consist of technologies to monitor and manage devices that come under Internet of Things. Microsoft according to Scott Guthrie provides advanced capabilites like stream processing and predictive analytics. En... Oct. 6, 2015 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,200 |
By Pat Romanski  Zoomdata has announced that it is a certified partner on the Azure Marketplace. Microsoft Azure customers seeking to capitalize on the performance of big data can now use Azure's one-click deployment to activate the Zoomdata Server, along with its Cloudera, Hortonworks and Spark smart ... Sep. 24, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,422 |
By David Bermingham  The New Data Center has arrived. Over the past decade we have seen the migration from physical servers to virtual machines and now to public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. Each of these migrations has taken a similar path. Test, dev and non-critical workloads are the first to m... Sep. 22, 2015 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,879 |
By Glenn Rossman  To assist customers with legacy Windows Server 2003 that is no longer supported by Microsoft, Racemi has introduced fixed price packages for upgrading and migrating Windows Server 2003 servers to either Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 R2 and the choice of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or S... Sep. 15, 2015 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,903 |
By Adine Deford  Cloud and datacenter migration innovator AppZero has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance Program. AppZero is a fast, flexible way to move Windows Server applications from any source machine – physical or virtual – to any destination server, in any cloud or datacenter, using... Sep. 1, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,664 |
By Eric Aarrestad  Microsoft has announced the long-awaited launch of Windows 10, scheduled to be the iconic platform’s last numbered version. By all estimations, Windows 10 will give modern IT users everything they want, wherever and whenever they need it. The one operating system, on the surface at lea... Aug. 11, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,421 |
By Aleksei Gavrilenko  It is a human nature to make mistakes, but mistakes in source code can lead to expensive consecutive mistakes if not fixed in time. Unfortunately, black box testing often cannot fully cover software. And even if it does, fixing a bug found by QA is at least two times as expensive as fi... Jun. 25, 2015 03:29 PM EDT Reads: 2,977 |
By Elizabeth White  "NuoDB is a transactionally consistent SQL database that does scale out, that does all the things you want in a cloud. If you want more transactional throughput, if you want higher availability if you want to run in multiple data centers this is a technology that can scale and still pr... Jun. 7, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,216 |