Early adopter spells out Microsoft Azure’s strengths and shortcomings

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	Early adopter spells out Microsoft Azure's strengths and shortcomings Few people know Windows Azure as well as Joannes Vermorel. Here's his take on Microsoft's cloud platform. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: St. Bernard, now doing business as EdgeWave More Power, Lower Price, Earn $15 GC iPrism Web Security's 500h appliance delivers 1Gbps of throughput for unrivalled speed and performance across your enterprise. We've got the power to handle your biggest pipeline. We'll try to match the cost of your current solution, or any competitive offer you have. You'll earn cash just for checking us out. Click here for the EdgeWave Bid Desk. In this Issue Bill Gates gives another $100M to fund polio vaccination Microsoft bolts HTML5 video onto Chrome for Windows 7 users Google Chrome surpasses 10% market share for first time; IE8 gains accelerate VMware taps ex-Microsoft execs to battle Microsoft Introducing the smartphone comedy team of Microsoft and Yahoo Windows drops below 90% market share Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market Microsoft delivers powerful enterprise backup tool Google accuses Microsoft of copying search results DOWNLOAD: Radware ADC Virtualization: How Much Can You Save? See for yourself how much you can save with ADC-VX! Estimate your cost savings online, right now with the ADC-VX ROI Calculator. It's fast and it's easy. With ADC-VX you receive quantifiable cost reductions on: hardware devices; power, cooling and real-estate; and service/management expenses. Check Now Bill Gates gives another $100M to fund polio vaccination Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is increasing his foundation's commitment to the fight against polio, as the disease increasingly appears on the verge of eradication. Read More Microsoft bolts HTML5 video onto Chrome for Windows 7 users Microsoft has released an HTML5 video-player extension for the Chrome browser to counteract Google's decision to drop support for the most widely used HTML5 video format. Read More Google Chrome surpasses 10% market share for first time; IE8 gains accelerate Google's Chrome browser reached a milestone in January, surpassing 10% market share for the first time. Microsoft's Internet Explorer held onto 56% of global browser usage. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Going Beyond the Obvious to Find Real Cost Savings This paper, from industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates, explores how workload automation can help IT reduce outages, consolidate vendors, improve integration, and cut costs. Learn more. Download the white paper, "IT Automation: Going Beyond the Obvious to Find Real Cost Savings." Read More! VMware taps ex-Microsoft execs to battle Microsoft VMware's Paul Maritz has given up his title of president to four senior executives who will serve as co-presidents of the EMC-owned company. With Maritz - himself a former Windows executive - continuing to hold the CEO title, three of the top five executives at VMware are now ex-Microsoft officials. Read More Introducing the smartphone comedy team of Microsoft and Yahoo You know that data glitch on your Windows Phone 7 handset? Well, too bad.This is story about how two companies, in this case Microsoft and Yahoo, still think the most important part of a solving a customer service problem is covering your corporate butt. Read More Windows drops below 90% market share I recently reported that Windows is on the verge of dropping below 90% market share -- not because fewer people are using Windows PCs, but because of the proliferation of mobile operating systems such as Apple's iOS and Android. (Macs are doing pretty well too.) This barrier has just been crossed, with Windows' market share now at 89.7%, according to Net Applications. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Accelerating Your Virtual Environment with WAN Optimization Which applications in your virtual environment do you want to accelerate the most? This Webcast surveys the applications that suffer the most from latency and discusses the 3 root causes of poor wide-area application performance. See how you can realize dramatic improvements in replication in virtual machines. Learn More! Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market On the anniversary of Windows Azure's introduction, the cloud platform market targeted by Microsoft is dwarfed by infrastructure and software clouds. Read More Microsoft delivers powerful enterprise backup tool Microsoft's flagship backup and archiving software, Data Protection Manager, has come a long way since we first tested it in 2005. Read More Google accuses Microsoft of copying search results Officials from Microsoft and Google sparred at an event on Tuesday over Google's accusation that Microsoft copies Google search results and feeds them into its Bing search engine. Read More
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