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Microsoft’s stock price may stink but its P&L; numbers are pretty much sweet
perfume.
In the June quarter, Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter and the end of its
fiscal year it made $4.52 billion, 51 cents a share, up 48% on record
revenues of $16.04 billion, up 22%.
According to Wall Street it was only supposed to do 46 cents on $15.26
billion.
The company can thank the PC upgrade cycle for letting it hold its head up
high after Apple’s blowout quarter. PC shipments were up 21% in the June
quarter, according to Gartner, although Microsoft thinks it was more like
22%-24%. Its OEM PC licenses were up 26%.
Microsoft said it’s sold 175 million Windows 7 licenses to date and claimed
that Bing and Windows Server are gaining share. It said sales of
virtualization suites almost doubled.
Chief operating officer Kevin Turner said in a statement that “We saw
strong sales exec... (more)
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Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud
management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud
ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague,
the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010.
Malcolm is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud Ecosystem
- the Gathering Storm."
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Abiquo was also Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo
held April 19-21, 2... (more)
Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans is just around the corner. While there are
certainly a lot of really high quality sessions available there, of biggest
interest to me are the Windows Phone 7 sessions. The following is a list of
the sessions as they appeared on the Tech-Ed site this morning:
TLC-92 | Windows Phone 7: Coding4Fun: TLC-93 | Windows Phone 7: Productivity
and Collaboration TLC-94 | Windows Phone 7: Development Tools TLC-95 |
Windows Phone 7: A Different Kind of Phone TLC-96 | Windows Phone Device Bar
WPH01-HOL | Hello Windows Phone WPH01-INT | Prepare for Windows Phone 7
D... (more)
The Patterns & Practices team have just released the first part of the
Windows Azure Architecture guide.
This book is the first volume in a planned series about the Windows®
Azure™ platform and focuses on a migration scenario. It introduces a
fictitious company named Adatum which step-by-step modifies its expense
tracking and reimbursement system, aExpense, so that it can be deployed to
Windows Azure. Each chapter explores different considerations: authentication
and authorization, data access, session management, deployment, development
life cycle and cost analysis.
You can vi... (more)
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Azaleos Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has deepened its existing
technical and business partnership with EMC Corporation. As part of the
broader relationship, Azaleos has extended its patented ViewX monitoring
system to provide advanced troubleshooting of EMC CLARiiON AX and CX
networked storage systems in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environments.
This complements ViewX’s existing capabilities for managing Microsoft
Exchange Server and CLARiiON infrastructures.
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Conference News & Updates  By Pat Romanski Further cementing its position as the fastest-growing and highest-energy cloud computing event in the world, the organizers of the 6th International Cloud Expo being held at the Prague Hilton in the Czech Republic on June 21-22, 2010, announced today that the event will also feature - on June 21st - a @CloudCamp unconference.
Reads: 4,065  By SYS-CON TV Learn about the trajectory of Cloud Computing - where it came from, where it is today, and where it's headed tomorrow - direct from four Enterprise IT industry experts: Greg O'Connor, CEO of AppZero; Tony Bishop, CEO of Adaptivity; K. Scott Morrison, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies; and Marty Gauvin, CEO of Virtual Ark. Moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, this "Power Panel" was recorded at the Times Square studio of SYS-CON.TV in connection with 5th Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), held recently in New York City...the Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World. Reads: 3,768  By Fuat Kircaali This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.
At SYS-CON Media we see our inventories are filling up to 100% capacity for the months of November, December, and January, and we are seeing better-than-normal RFP activity for the first quarter of 2010. Reads: 14,497  By Corinna Melcon By employing the most effective and powerful marketing tools in tech media for more than 15 years, SYS-CON Events, Inc. and Cloud Expo, Inc. intensively pre-publicize Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara via an unmatched number of channels.
Cloud Expo, Inc. publicity platforms include multiple news syndication channels, more than a dozen Ulitzer.com channels, multiple Twitter feeds that are amplified to hundreds of thousands of followers, as well as Cloud Expo's "Most Powerful Cloud Bloggers" platform with millions of page views at http://CloudComputingExpo.com.
The event is streamed live to more than 50,000 concurrent viewers at any given time throughout the three days. All key media outlets, technology journalists, and press are VIP-invited to Cloud Expo 2010 West - Santa Clara.
SYS-CON.TV produces and broadcasts the most viewed tech interviews with movers and shakers and simulcasts "Power Panels" right from the show floor!
Reads: 4,943  By Carmen Gonzalez SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that "iPad Developer Summit" will take place November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The Summit is co-located with the 7th International Cloud Expo and the 9th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
The iPad Developer Summit is an intensive and content-rich one-day program designed to satisfy the growing hunger among software developers and IT professionals for a broad spectrum of sessions informing developers what kinds of development options and opportunities the iPad provides.SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that “iPad Developer Summit” will take place November 1-3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The Summit is co-located with the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo and the 9th International Virtualization Conference & Expo. Reads: 6,161  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 14,926  By Jeremy Geelan Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010.
Malcolm is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm."
Reads: 14,644  By Carmen Gonzalez Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form.
Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates. Reads: 11,506 By Carmen Gonzalez SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 80 sponsors and exhibitors on the 70,000 sq. ft. show floor and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Reads: 16,039  By Yeshim Deniz SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010.
Carmen Gonzalez was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen served as the co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of SYS-CON Media since 1994. In this capacity, Carmen was in charge of SYS-CON's sales and marketing functions. Under her leadership, the company was named by Inc 500 as among the fastest-growing 500 privately held companies in North America three years in a row. Reads: 8,201  By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced on Friday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, has been extended to four days from November 1-4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Cloud Expo 2010 West total show floor space increased from 20,000 sq. ft. in 2009 to over 100,000 sq. ft. in 2010 including the expo floor.
The expo floor will be open for four full days, November 1-4, 2010, in the Grand Ballrooms A through H.
Half of the Cloud Expo 2010 West exhibit space had already sold out during the last West Coast event in November 2009.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Reads: 5,405  By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 4,990 |
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