Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Microsoft announced today that the Power BI for Office 365 preview has been updated. One of my colleagues, Andrew Tegethoff, previously mentioned the compelling features in a previous post. The features were not all available in the preview at the time of the earlier posting. They have added natural language search with Q&A, as well […]

In the enterprise world, a lot of time and effort goes into ensuring that systems stay up.  The golden standard is 99.99% but in order to achieve that, you pretty much need to ensure that you have no single point of failure and that you can still scale even after you have lost a server […]

A little over a month ago I had a post about Windows Azure supporting Java and Oracle. I had mentioned that pre-configured options should become available. That day is now upon us. There is several pre-configured options for Java, Oracle Database, and Oracle WebLogic Server. Not just on Windows operating systems either, there is a […]

I’ve been a user of Neat’s scan receipt software and hardware for years. It’s simplified my expenses and given me a certain amount of flexibility when I travel.  Like many other vendors, they constantly stive to make their niche more relevant.  For them, that means rolling out cloud and mobile services in late 2012.   […]

Microsoft announced yesterday their new lineup of Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro.  I’ll give you the highlights of the hardware and then focus on what it means from a cloud standpoint.  As you may suspect, they made it faster, lighter, thinner, and generally better.  Both have fantastic displays and enough processing power to handle […]

Many people have been asking me lately, “So, what is new in the new version of CRM?” Microsoft recently released an overview of the new items for CRM 2013. This will be release for both on-premises and online in October 2013. Very exciting changes coming including four key themes of: Redesigned user experience Process agility CRM on […]

60,000 people will convene to watch 3,600 partners and customers speak in sessions at Oracle OpenWorld this week. Oracle’s rockstar, chief executive Larry Ellison, kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening, highlighting a shift to “in-memory technology to speed up by as much as 100 times the databases that are the foundation of the company’s business.” Ellison presented: […]

        Google is tackling anti-aging with their new healthcare initiative called Calico. It remains to be seen if it is a threat to anti-aging creams or will increase their potential customers. But seriously, Calico is being led by the former Genetech CEO and current Apple Chairman, Arthur D. Levinson and this new […]

Microsoft  and AT&T announced today they are working together to deliver private networks for businesses to connect to Windows Azure. Windows Azure already has virtual networking capabilities.  So now customers will have multiple options for connecting on-premises to Windows Azure.

Jaspersoft is an open-source business intelligence suite built on Java. Jaspersoft put together a video of using MongoDb with it’s suite on Windows Azure. MongoDB is a NoSQL based system, which stores data like JSON.  I found an article about this on MS Open Tech’s site. I just wanted to share it here to let […]

I cam across an article on InformationWeek “Microsoft Azure Grows More Open.” From what I know and the people I talk to, I truly believe Microsoft has been opening up over the last several years, especially for developers. The rate tools and frameworks are built and supported by Visual Studio is one key sign of […]

Microsoft earlier this week made multiple improvements to their site based on their Microsoft Cloud OS vision.  The main focus is based on UX to improve user experience and increase engagement. The site is very responsive and adaptive based on the devices you are using as well as when re-sizing or panning. There is even […]