Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released a letter to employees today via the Microsoft website, and while the missive is aimed at employees in terms of syntax, it’s clearly designed to address the public, too. The occasion for the letter is the kick-off of Microsoft’s fiscal 2015, ahead of the final results for FY 2014, which […]
Posted on July 13th, 2014 by admin
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E-Commerce giant Amazon has made huge competitive inroads into the cloud services market with Amazon Web Services, and today it’s adding another feature that will put it into direct competition with the likes of Box and Dropbox: It’s launching Zocalo, a secure enterprise storage service. The company is launching Zocalo in a limited preview from […]
Posted on July 12th, 2014 by admin
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Software provider Actuate is offering a free way for business units to analyze enterprise data and present the results in a format that is easy to understand. The gratis software “is a free server for developers to deploy their reports, visualizations and applications,” said Nobby Akiha, Actuate senior vice president of marketing. [ Discover what's […]
Posted on July 12th, 2014 by admin
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The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email, social networks, and calendars to automate large portions of the sales process. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company raised […]
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The European tech market has been down for several years. With most European economies emerging from recession, and Germany, Poland, and the UK doing better than that, CIOs in Europe can at last think about growing their tech budgets in 2014 and especially in 2015. Customer-facing technologies for sales and marketing and mobile and analytics […]
Posted on July 12th, 2014 by admin
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Personal computers, long an ailing member of the larger technology market had a strong second quarter. After consistent quarters of decline, the worldwide PC market was either up 0.1%, or down a modest 1.7% in the period, according to Gartner and IDC respectively. In the United States, the PC market was up around 7% in the […]
Posted on July 11th, 2014 by admin
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This morning Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released an internal memo detailing his vision for the company’s future. The new chief executive used the missive as a way to signal an intentional break with the past. That break? Sharpening its “devices and services” strategy to focus on “productivity and platforms.” Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on July 11th, 2014 by admin
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It’s not often that you see this combination of backers, but today, Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack all banded together to support Google’s open-source Kubernetes project for managing Docker containers. Docker containers are quickly becoming the go-to technology for building and running distributed applications. Every major cloud vendor has… Read More […]
Posted on July 10th, 2014 by admin
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Microsoft today announced a number of new features for its Azure cloud computing platform ahead of its Worldwide Partner Conference next week. There is quite a bit that’s new in this update, but the highlights are two new Azure regions for the U.S. (US Central in Iowa and US East 2 in Virginia) that will […]
Posted on July 10th, 2014 by admin
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Microsoft today announced a raft of new Office 365 plans for smaller businesses. The new offerings will eventually supplant its extant offerings. The company is lowering the price of its most expensive smaller business offering — from $15 per seat per month to $12.50 — and raising the employee cap in some cases to 300 […]
Posted on July 9th, 2014 by admin
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