Microsoft bulks up Azure to make it easier to build, expand cloud services

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	Microsoft bulks up Azure to make it easier to build, expand cloud services Microsoft is making it simpler for business applications in its Azure cloud to automatically turn services up and down as demand requires and for apps to incorporate features of Office 365, company executives told the Build 2013 developer conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Enabling Efficient Data Center Monitoring Enabling Efficient Data Center Monitoring -- How IT Organizations See the Big Picture of Their Infrastructure Using AccelOps' Unified SIEM, Performance and Availability Monitoring Software. Read Now In this Issue 10 factors that hobbled Windows 8 and what Windows 8.1 might do to fix them INSIDER How to use Azure's new connectivity features Microsoft shutters TechNet subscriptions 11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference Windows 8.1 deep-dive review: Well, it's a start Microsoft: Desperately wooing developers with new app features, gifts Game over for Mark Pincus as Zynga CEO; Xbox chief to take over Ballmer: Happiness is a Windows 8 device with a touchscreen One year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft WHITE PAPER: IBM A Guide for a Successful ERP Strategy in the Midmarket Combining an experienced service partner with an informed ERP strategy helps to maximize ROI. This helps midmarket organizations to contain costs, communicate effectively, and improve to grow into more successful organizations. Learn More. 10 factors that hobbled Windows 8 and what Windows 8.1 might do to fix them Microsoft is making a big effort to resuscitate Windows 8 with a preview of the first major upgrade to the operating system since it launched last October, but it has a lot to overcome. Read More INSIDER How to use Azure's new connectivity features Here's what you need to know about the recent point-to-site and site-to-site VPN upgrades to Windows Azure. Read More Microsoft shutters TechNet subscriptions Citing a change in the way IT professionals consume information, Microsoft has closed down its long-running TechNet subscription service. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM A Smarter Approach to CRM: An IBM Perspective Read this white paper, created in collaboration with Frost & Sullivan, to see how a customer relationship management (CRM) solution can help you respond on the customers' terms. Learn More. 11 highlights from Microsoft's BUILD conference Microsoft kicked off it's BUILD developers conference Wednesday with a two hour keynote. Here are some of the takeaways. Read More Windows 8.1 deep-dive review: Well, it's a start Although the preview of Windows 8.1 fixes some of the problems users complained about in the previous version of the OS, is it enough? We take a close look at Microsoft's update. Read More Microsoft: Desperately wooing developers with new app features, gifts Microsoft is desperately courting developers, holding its second Build developer's conference in less than a year and this time giving attendees not one but two free Windows 8 devices to take home to develop apps for. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now! Game over for Mark Pincus as Zynga CEO; Xbox chief to take over Mark Pincus is stepping down as CEO of Zynga and will be replaced by the head of Microsoft's Xbox business, Don Mattrick, Zynga announced on Monday. Read More Ballmer: Happiness is a Windows 8 device with a touchscreen Windows 8 on a touchscreen device makes users happier than Microsoft's currently most popular operating system, Windows 7, CEO Steve Ballmer says. Read More One year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft For a product once described as Twitter with a business model, Yammer is becoming more nuanced, morphing into an important feature set that will cross over among Microsoft applications. Just as important, it continues seeing growth and popularity among businesses, where it can act as a hook that can encourage current Microsoft customers to upgrade and adopt Microsoft cloud services. Read More
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