The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Microsoft have signed an agreement to work on next-generation connected car technologies and driving experiences The services, based on Microsoft's Azure cloud service, will include advanced navigation, ...
Microsoft will offer discounts on its Azure cloud service next month as part of a cloud computing push that also includes new releases of its Windows Server and Systems Center software. Customers on Enterprise Agreement licenses will be ...
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Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle's database,application server,Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft's Azure cloud service.? The deal,which will also provide Oracle ...
For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Microsoft announced a sweeping range of updates to its ...
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Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
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Microsoft has announced some key details of how it will introduce Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software products to the cloud computing model, from initial release dates to the precise role of partners. Dynamics NAV 2013 ...
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Microsoft hoped recent updates to its Dynamics AX 2012 ERP software would help it grab enterprise-level deals that would ordinarily be won by the likes of Oracle and SAP. To some degree, the strategy appears to be clicking. Cosmetics ...
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Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for Windows and expects to ...
Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops, it was reported on Monday. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for ...
With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT ...
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After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its usage, for the time being, has been limited to five or fewer users, however. "ALM has ...
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Microsoft claims Windows 8 is"a better Windows"than Windows 7.In particular,the company has focused on improving security to ensure users of Windows 8 tablets can securely connect to corporate networks. It is building antivirus(AV)and ...
Microsoft updated its Visual Studio software Wednesday so that the IDE reflects many of the changes that challenge developers, including mobility and cloud computing. "From our perspective, the world of software development is changing, ...
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Following last year's merger with Activant Solutions, ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor is closing in on US$1 billion in revenue, a figure that belies the vendor's relatively low profile compared to giants such as Oracle and ...
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Microsoft will support Ubuntu and OpenSuse virtual machines on the latest version of its Azure cloud service. In a massive departure from its previous stance,the company appears to be supporting open source tools and the Linux operating ...
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