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Azure platform is going all out and it is burgeoning.
"Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is a document-oriented, NoSQL database service
designed for modern mobile and web applications"
The above from Microsoft site.
Microsoft beefs its Azure Services portfolio with yet another service. Azure
DocementDB service is which also serves as a search tool. Searching stuff
that
goes into NoSQL should be very useful. It is presently available as a
technology
preview product and developers will be able to run SQLesque queries on JSON
data
and supports transactional consistency.
Under the hoods it uses the in-memory technology and includes important
libraries like .NET, Node.js, JavaScript and Python. DocumentDB is presently
strictly Microsoft but it intends to make it Open source.
All this enhancements / additions are going to provide a tough challenge to
AWS
and which has also seen strong ch... (more)
I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having
said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because
they can only give you answers."
Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would
share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application
pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered.
From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX?
Eric Miraglia of Yahoo!
1. (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the
iPhone SDK vs using AJAX?
2. How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to
make it faster?
3. When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for
my rich web apps? Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)
It is a fact that end user response time is critical for business success.
The faster web pages are perceived the longer users tend to stay on the page
and therefore spend more money and drive business.
In order to ensure that end user response times are acceptable at all times
it is necessary to measure the time in the way the end user perceives
performance. Measuring and monitoring your live system is important to
identify problems early on before it affects too many end users. In order to
make sure that web pages are fast from the start it is very important to
constantly and continuously measure web page performance throughout the
development phase and in testing. There are two questions that need to be
answered
What is the time the user actually perceives as web response time? How to
measure it accurately and in an automated way?
What Time to Measure? Technical ... (more)
There are things in life that are just painful -- Doing dishes, paying taxes,
going to the dentist, and upgrading software. One of the most painful IT life
cycle events is upgrading from an older version of an operating system (OS)
to a newer one. In fact, there are 10s of millions of servers still running
Windows Server 2003, hosting applications that run important functions. The
problem is that Window Server 2003 is about to lose support from Microsoft
(end of life (EOL)) leaving many with a really difficult choice. Upgrade or
face escalating risk of security holes being exploited without any patches or
support. Holy strawberries Batman, we're in a jam.
This is a case of bare metal turning to rust. The virtual support rug is
being pulled out from underneath the data center. A mini Y2K event for
applications stranded on those old, obsolete servers. The challenge is ... (more)
Microsoft Sunday slashed the price of its poorly selling ARM-based
Windows-incompatible Surface RT by $150 to $349 for the 32GB model.
That's without the cover that also functions as a touch-sensitive keyboard.
With the magnet cover the price is $449. The bigger 64GB model has been cut
from $599 to $449 or from $699 to $549 with the cover.
IDC estimates that Microsoft shipped about 260,000 of the 10-inch widgets in
Q1, the latest numbers the researcher's got. Together with the 750,000 more
conventional Surface Pros that run Windows 8 it shipped during that quarter
it got all of 2% of the worldwide tablet market of going on 50 million units.
New Surface RTs and Surface Pros are rumored.
Some weeks ago the Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft was working on a
smaller version of the Surface RT.
Microsoft, which is reorganizing, is pushing into hardware as demand for
... (more)
Microsoft Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit in Washington looking for a stay of the permanent
injunction ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10.
It wants the stay while it appeals the decision.
The order came down late last Tuesday as part of a verdict that Word
infringes a custom XML patent held by an obscure Canadian ISV called i4i.
The plaintiff-favoring Texas district court that issued the injunction also
hit Microsoft with $290 million in damages, $200 million by way of
compensation and another $90 million for willfulness. It also refused to stay
its injunction.
Claiming a "classic case for a stay pending appeal," Microsoft wants an
expedited schedule and i4i's brief opposing the stay filed next week.
Its motion claims the Texas court made "several fundamental legal errors" and
that redes... (more)
Azure Session at Cloud Expo
Microsoft and Intuit are going to join their clouds, Azure and the Intuit
Partner Platform (IPP), so developers can deliver and market web applications
to the 27 million QuickBooks-using small businesses through the Intuit App
Center.
The integration also means that small businesses can use Microsoft's
cloud-based productivity applications via the Intuit App Center, presumably
heading off some losses to Google Apps and Zoho.
The deal calls for Azure to be an Intuit preferred platform.
There's a free Azure beta SDK that will federate applications developed on
Azure with the go-to-market IPP already available at
http://developer.intuit.com/azure.
Integration is based on an extension of the QuickBooks data model and will
provide APIs for single sign-on, billing, data integration and user
management.
The companies expect a flood of SaaS ap... (more)
Microsoft Session at Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft has been named "Gold Sponsor"
of SYS-CON's 5th International (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take
place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York
City.
Register Today and Save $800 !
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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.
Microsoft cloud services mean freedom for businesses. The freedom to access
the technology you want, where and when you want it. The freedom to take
advantage of the latest technology as a capital expense, or an operational
one. The freedom to focus on running your business - not running IT systems.
Microsoft cloud services are Microsoft by extension: Giving you the ability
to m... (more)
I was meeting with a small company today that has developed a SaaS solution
around task and project management. It's a very cool application, and as is
the fashion these days, uses subdomains to determine the end user's company
as requests come to the browser. So, if I were to sign up for the
application, my home url would be http://adamhoffman.getdonedone.com, whereas
if you signed up (and had the unlikely name of Bill Ion), your home page
would be http://billion.getdonedone.com. This is handled in ASP.NET
application code on their Win2K8 servers hosted at Rackspace. The question
quickly became "hey, we can do something similar in Azure, right?"
The answer is yes, and no, and yes. Let me explain.
My instant assumption was "yes", and ultimately, it is true that you can
accomplish this behavior. It does, however, require that wherever you host
your DNS that points to... (more)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told French daily Le Parisien Monday that sales
of the company's iPad- and Android-challenging Surface tablet had a "modest"
start because of limited availability confined to its online retail sites and
the few Microsoft stores in the US. Surface tablets are based on the ARM chip
and are not compatible with the huge library of x86 Windows apps. It's got a
click-on keyboard cover that's supposed to represent the best of the PC and
tablet worlds. Ballmer also reportedly said that four million upgrades to
Windows 8 were sold in the three days following its launch.
... (more)
This book is the perfect size and the perfect depth for getting up to speed
quickly with building Windows 8 Store Applications.
The book starts by introducing WinRT. This introduction includes a really
nice history of how Microsoft got to where they are now. It starts with a
look back at MS-DOS, MS-DOS Executive, the Win32 API, COM, and.NET. The
introduction leads us up to NUI (Natural User Interface) and the Windows
Store Application Design Principles.
The first chapter ends with a look at the Windows 8 tool that are available
to developers and designers. They include, Blend for Visual Studio, C++ and
XAML, HTML5 and JavaScript, and VB/C# and XAML.
I have listed all the chapters below.
1. The New Windows Runtime
2. Getting Started
3. Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
4. Windows 8 Applications
5. Application Lifecycle
6. Data
7. Tiles and Toasts
8. Giving Your A... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  "We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 2, 2016 06:00 AM EST Reads: 373 | By Liz McMillan  In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain.
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life sett... Dec. 2, 2016 04:30 AM EST Reads: 6,870 | By Elizabeth White  The WebRTC Summit New York, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, 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. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 20th International Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo.
WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web ... Dec. 2, 2016 04:15 AM EST Reads: 1,173 | By Liz McMillan  Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, revealed what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud. Dec. 2, 2016 04:00 AM EST Reads: 4,550 | By Elizabeth White  Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, will share examples from a wide range of industries – includin... Dec. 2, 2016 01:15 AM EST Reads: 1,481 | By Pat Romanski  "We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 2, 2016 12:30 AM EST Reads: 591 | By Carmen Gonzalez  WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world. The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC. Dec. 2, 2016 12:00 AM EST Reads: 1,448 | By Elizabeth White  "Once customers get a year into their IoT deployments, they start to realize that they may have been shortsighted in the ways they built out their deployment and the key thing I see a lot of people looking at is - how can I take equipment data, pull it back in an IoT solution and show it in a dashboard," stated Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 1, 2016 11:30 PM EST Reads: 796 | By Yeshim Deniz  20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Dec. 1, 2016 10:45 PM EST Reads: 1,640 | By Elizabeth White  Fact is, enterprises have significant legacy voice infrastructure that’s costly to replace with pure IP solutions. How can we bring this analog infrastructure into our shiny new cloud applications? There are proven methods to bind both legacy voice applications and traditional PSTN audio into cloud-based applications and services at a carrier scale. Some of the most successful implementations leverage WebRTC, WebSockets, SIP and other open source technologies.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Da... Dec. 1, 2016 07:45 PM EST Reads: 1,534 | By Pat Romanski  "IoT is going to be a huge industry with a lot of value for end users, for industries, for consumers, for manufacturers. How can we use cloud to effectively manage IoT applications," stated Ian Khan, Innovation & Marketing Manager at Solgeniakhela, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 1, 2016 07:30 PM EST Reads: 3,931 | By Elizabeth White  As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enter... Dec. 1, 2016 06:45 PM EST Reads: 1,424 | By Pat Romanski  Extracting business value from Internet of Things (IoT) data doesn’t happen overnight. There are several requirements that must be satisfied, including IoT device enablement, data analysis, real-time detection of complex events and automated orchestration of actions. Unfortunately, too many companies fall short in achieving their business goals by implementing incomplete solutions or not focusing on tangible use cases.
In his general session at @ThingsExpo, Dave McCarthy, Director of Products... Dec. 1, 2016 05:15 PM EST Reads: 369 | By Liz McMillan  Information technology is an industry that has always experienced change, and the dramatic change sweeping across the industry today could not be truthfully described as the first time we've seen such widespread change impacting customer investments. However, the rate of the change, and the potential outcomes from today's digital transformation has the distinct potential to separate the industry into two camps: Organizations that see the change coming, embrace it, and successful leverage it; and... Dec. 1, 2016 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,174 | By Liz McMillan  We are always online. We access our data, our finances, work, and various services on the Internet. But we live in a congested world of information in which the roads were built two decades ago. The quest for better, faster Internet routing has been around for a decade, but nobody solved this problem. We’ve seen band-aid approaches like CDNs that attack a niche's slice of static content part of the Internet, but that’s it. It does not address the dynamic services-based Internet of today. It does... Dec. 1, 2016 03:45 PM EST Reads: 755 | By Liz McMillan  Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like “How is my application doing” but no id... Dec. 1, 2016 03:30 PM EST Reads: 2,069 | By Elizabeth White  @GonzalezCarmen has been ranked the Number One Influencer and @ThingsExpo has been named the Number One Brand in the “M2M 2016: Top 100 Influencers and Brands” by Onalytica.
Onalytica analyzed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords M2M OR “Machine to Machine.” They then identified the top 100 most influential brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter. Dec. 1, 2016 03:30 PM EST Reads: 1,939 | By Liz McMillan  "Dice has been around for the last 20 years. We have been helping tech professionals find new jobs and career opportunities," explained Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 1, 2016 03:30 PM EST Reads: 727 | By Elizabeth White  Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing, but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify cloud deployment and management. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack, will discuss how AI can simplify cloud operations. He will cover the following topics: why clou... Dec. 1, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 471 | By Elizabeth White  Machine Learning helps make complex systems more efficient. By applying advanced Machine Learning techniques such as Cognitive Fingerprinting, wind project operators can utilize these tools to learn from collected data, detect regular patterns, and optimize their own operations. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Stuart Gillen, Director of Business Development at SparkCognition, discussed how research has demonstrated the value of Machine Learning in delivering next generation analytics to impr... Dec. 1, 2016 01:30 PM EST Reads: 6,919 |
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As we enter the final week before the 19th International Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo in Santa Clara, CA, it's time for me to reflect on six big topics that will be important during the show.
Hybrid Cloud
This general-purpose term seems to provide a comfort zone for many enterprise IT managers. It sounds reassuring to be able to work with one of the major public-cloud providers like AWS or Microsoft Azure while still maintaining an on-site presence.
Between 2005 and 2020, data volumes will grow by a factor of 300 – enough data to stack CDs from the earth to the moon 162 times. This has come to be known as the ‘big data’ phenomenon. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to handling, storing and analyzing data aren’t adequate at this scale: they’re too costly, slow and physically cumbersome to keep up. Fortunately, in response a new breed of technology has emerged that is cheaper, faster and more scalable. Yet, in meeting these new needs they break many of the traditional security approaches on which enterprises depended. In these massive d...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise advanced across several fronts at HPE Discover 2016 in London, making inroads into hybrid IT, Internet of Things, and on to the latest advances in memory-based computer architecture.
A leaner, more streamlined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) advanced across several fronts at HPE Discover 2016 in London, making inroads into hybrid IT, Internet of Things (IoT), and on to the latest advances in memory-based computer architecture. All the innovations are designed to help customers address the age of digital disruption with speed, agility, and efficiency.
For large enterprise organizations, it can be next-to-impossible to identify attacks and act to mitigate them in good time. That’s one of the reasons executives often discover security breaches when an external researcher — or worse, a journalist — gets in touch to ask why hundreds of millions of logins for their company’s services are freely available on hacker forums.
The huge volume of incoming connections, the heterogeneity of services, and the desire to avoid false positives leave enterprise security teams in a difficult spot. Finding potential security breaches is like finding a tiny ne...
Almost a year ago, I wrote these words, "Technology has reached the tipping point for me, it moved from a help to a hindrance." The plethora of adrenaline- and endorphin-inducing mobile apps, 24x7 news, notifications, alerts and updates, drip fed my brain and hindered my "deep work and deep thoughts." In Cal Newport's new book titled, Deep Work he posits that most knowledge workers need concentration and substantial time, dedicated and uninterrupted, to produce their best work. He argues that a lot of technologies and open office layouts today inhibit creativity, "deep work" and "deep thoughts...
The 2017 procurement landscape has its own impressive retinue of decision bots, automated processes, and data-driven insights.
The next BriefingsDirect technology innovation thought leadership discussion explores how rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are poised to reshape procurement -- like a fast-forwarding to a once-fanciful vision of the future.
Cyberattacks are relentless. The pace of attacks shows no sign of slowing, and organizations understand that 100 percent prevention of attacks is not possible. Traditional prevention and detection techniques are falling short, and security professionals are scrambling for new paradigms that can more effectively detect attacks and mitigate the growing levels of damage.
In this climate of confusion, deception-based solutions offer a viable and proven way to stop attackers in their tracks. Why? Because instead of sitting back and waiting to be the victim, detection technologies let organizations...
The developments in Google’s Cloud Computing segment, especially the Cloud Machine Learning service, have been so rapid that Google calls it one of its fastest growing product areas. Google has been ramping up their Cloud Platform quite aggressively in recent months. Just a few weeks ago, the Google Cloud Platform opened its newest zone in Tokyo, increasing the total number of regions they are present in to six - three in the US and one each in Belgium and Taiwan and Tokyo.
Not long ago, the company announced its acquisition of Orbitera, a cloud commerce company. for more than a hundred mil...
We've come across a lot of talk about "cloud-native" apps lately. (They even have their own foundation!) Developers build these apps specifically to run on a cloud-based infrastructure, with the kind of user interface we all expect from our apps now. Cloud-native applications are scalable, usable and flexible, usually packaged using containers.
It's a step further in the cloud computing journey, and a step away from the way we used to conceive of apps. Application development happened for many years inside an IT bubble, with a long development and deployment lifecycle. They were used only i...
The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it’s challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging “as-a-service” options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data professionals, as experts estimate that “as-a-service” cloud sourcing will increase from today’s 15% to 35% by 20...
The 20th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Containers, Microservices and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
Modern organizations typically use several IT tools to monitor their applications, networks and other IT components in real time. Unfortunately, this leads to independent data islands, which creates a one-dimensional view of IT. In order to make strategic decisions, organizations need an IT operational analytics tool to analyze data from multiple sources, spot trends and make better decisions. 
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