Amazon Web Services continues to enhance support for Microsoft workloads with added SDK support for Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps. According to the AWS blog, the new support comes with a Developer Preview of the next version of the AWS SDK for .NET. The release of the SDK adds two new enhancements for.NET developers. […]
Posted on July 26th, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft announced at the Build conference today that Windows Azure now has 8.5 trillion objects stored on its infrastructure. The company also announced the following: Customers do 900,000 storage transactions per second. The service is doubling its compute and storage every six months. 3.2 million organizations have Active Directory accounts with 68 million users. More […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft has announced general availability of Windows Azure Web Sites and Mobile Service, accentuating the emphasis on development using the Azure cloud service. According to Microsoft, Windows Azure Web Sites allows customers to build scalable websites on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Web Sites uses the languages and open source apps of a customer’s choice and […]
Posted on June 27th, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft showed the new Visual Studio 2013 at its Build developer conference today. The new independent development environment (IDE) features include performance tools for power consumption, asynchronous calls for debugging and an overall focus on the connected app. The new tools in Visual Studio, now available for download, are meant to appeal to mobile developers. […]
Posted on June 26th, 2013 by admin
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Windows 8.1, which will launch in preview on June 26th, isn’t just about bringing the Start button back. For Microsoft, it’s also an opportunity to get businesses of all sizes to take another look at an operating system they have mostly ignored. Today, at its TechEd conference in New Orleans, the company provided new details […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Over the last few years, Israeli IT startup Soluto has morphed from simply being PC software that helps users run diagnostics on their hard drives, to a web-based platform that aims to turn you into a one-person Help Desk. In other words, Soluto now allows anyone to offer remote tech support and run diagnostics, whether […]
Posted on April 25th, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft has announced general availability for Windows Azure Infrastructure Services with a promise to match any price drop from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Microsoft marked the occasion with a decrease in pricing for cloud services and virtual instances, ranging from 21 to 33 percent. Windows Azure’s infrastructure services have been in preview since last June. […]
Posted on April 16th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is dropping the price of Windows On-Demand EC2 instances up to 26 percent, which is another clear sign of the price wars in the cloud computing market. The news follows Google’s announcement earlier today that it is dropping instance prices by 4 percent. AWS says the drop in price continues its […]
Posted on April 5th, 2013 by admin
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Windows Azure has added new support for a number of services including PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop. According to a blog post by Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group, developers can connect both HTML5 web-client apps, Apache Cordova/PhoneGap and Windows Phone 7.5 clients to use Windows Azure Mobile Services as a […]
Posted on March 18th, 2013 by admin
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Apperian has raised a new round of funding from Intel Capital, bringing its total raised to $28 million for the mobile application management company. Apperian did not disclose the funding amount from Intel Capital. Prior to this round, Apperian had $23.4 million in total funding, putting Intel’s investment at $4.6 million. The additional capital builds on […]
Posted on January 28th, 2013 by admin
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