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Competing Against Amazon, Microsoft Adds Linux Support to Windows Azure Cloud
This has been a big few weeks for cloud news from some of the biggest names in technology. Larry Ellison did an about-face and now loves the cloud. Both Oracle and Red Hat made major announcements about their cloud strategies. Hewlett-Packard talked up its public cloud strategy at HP Discover.
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Kentico Launches Windows Azure Hosted CXM Platform
Web content management provider Kentico has launched EMS+, a new Azure-hosted version of their customer experience management platform. Although customers could already deploy Kentico’s Enterprise Marketing Suite (EMS) to the cloud, this is the first time Kentico has offered any of its tools as a true software-as-a-service.
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Microsoft Continues Rebranding, This Time It's Azure
Microsoft must be in a mood to rename things this month. First, the company re-branded its small and medium business advertising site and eliminated Windows Live branding. Now it’s moved on to Azure.
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Agility Web CMS Gets Image Editing and An Azure-based CDN
Agility has announced new updates to its Web CMS platform, supporting faster editing of both content and images. Not only does the document management system have a new look, but new Agility customers will be able to take advantage of the Microsoft Azure platform for easy, fast website builds.
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Microsoft Creates Subsidiary Dedicated to Openness
There are countless predictions swirling that the world will end in 2012. Yesterday, we might have gotten a sign of the pending apocalypse. Microsoft announced a wholly owned subsidiary, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., dedicated to advancing the company’s investments in openness, interoperability, open standards and open source.
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Microsoft Releases Second Preview of Hadoop-Based Service for Windows Azure
The Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure capacity is expanded by four times. Hadoop Hubbub In February, we wrote about a leaked slide that revealed the Microsoft Hadoop roadmap: As you can see, the roadmap indicates Microsoft is planning to simultaneously deliver the final version of Hadoop on Azure and
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Microsoft Azure Global Outage Continues
If you are a current user of Microsoft's Azure, the infrastructure and software as a service cloud technology, you already know of the worldwide outage that occurred for over eight hours on the Windows Azure Service Management Component. The glitch that brought the system down began at 1:45 a.m.
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Leaked Slide Reveals Microsoft's Hadoop Roadmap
We reported in October of last year that Microsoft was making the leap into NoSQL with a Windows version of Hadoop. Although several months have passed, there haven’t been any official statements from the Seattle giant regarding a concrete roadmap.
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Document Mgt Roll-up: OpenText's Azure Offerings, SharePoint and Document Security
This week in the document management space, OpenText extends its offerings on the Azure platform, we find that document security is still an issue with SharePoint users, Box gets easier email management, Kofax extends its document capture abilities, Zylpha offers secure document transfer and SmartSoft offers OCR.
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Open Source Cloud Tier 3 Enters Market, Competes with Azure
Microsoft has been taking big steps to make its cloud platform, Windows Azure, more attractive. Just last week the company announced support for several popular open source development tools including Node.js and Hadoop.
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Microsoft Azure Embraces Open Source Technologies
Microsoft is taking big strides to make its Azure cloud service more attractive. The company has announced several updates to the platform aimed at improving its usability. The company, which has long been criticized for a less-than-friendly stance on open source, is continuing to show that giants can change.
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Composite C1 Offers Full Cloud Support via Windows Azure
Danish based Composite C1, Microsoft's top ranked open source web content management system, announced today full support for cloud hosting through Windows Azure, allowing users to easily gain the benefits of scalable global hosting, increased security and low cost.
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All Paths Lead to the Cloud in Microsoft's Product Roadmap
Microsoft has released its server roadmap and all paths lead to the cloud. It appears that although the company will continue to sell on-premise products, it really wants customers to move to cloud-based products. Lots to Do, Short Time to Do It Microsoft has kind of, sort of disclosed its roadmap for the
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Where are All the Azure-Hosted Content Management Systems?
Countless industry studies have been published confirming something many of us already know -- content volume and diversity are increasing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. This rapid expansion along all dimensions is driving enterprises to adopt content management solutions to gain better control and visibility of their information.
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