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Following Microsoft’s big data strategy is a bit like watching the US presidential election. We’ve endured months of shifting opinions, surprise partnerships, secrets and leaked information. Now the Seattle giant is capitalizing on the attention from this week’s Strata and Hadoop World to reveal a bit more
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Microsoft has decided to extend the mainstream support window for Windows Server 2008. The change is likely welcome news for businesses running the operating system that don’t have immediate plans to move to Windows 2012.
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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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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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First Oracle, now Microsoft is joining the NoSQL party. At this week’s SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft’s VP of Business Platform Development announced the company was developing its own implementation of Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure. Microsoft also revealed a strategic partnership with Yahoo spinoff Hortonworks.
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Microsoft released a community preview of its next version of SQL Server, codenamed 'Denali' and its partners have wasted no time announcing their support for it.
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While open source adoption is on the rise among businesses, a big percentage of companies are nevertheless widely using commercially-licensed software like Microsoft SQL Server. Recognizing the opportunity to reach out to this market, MODx (news, site) has launched version 2.1 of its MODx Revolution Web CMS with
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Social networking is often considered an important source of business intelligence, both for the conversations and for the connections among like-minded individuals and organizations. Panorama Software's (news, site ) recently launched Necto is a socially-enabled BI solution that lets business users track relevant conversations and discussions in
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It's Collaborate time again. Not enterprise collaborate as we normally know it, but Oracle’s Collaborate conference, where we get a look at some of the things it has been working on since Open World last September. In today’s round-up there is the first MySQL 5.
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You will remember our 5 tips for planning your SharePoint 2010 migration. We are back with 5 more tips to help you when the planning is done and it's time for implementation. First of all, beware of a vendor representative (e.g. the sales guy) who uses the word upgrade
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Historically, Microsoft (news, site) has shown active hostility to open source, referring to it as a cancer among other things. These days, however, the company has been dipping its toes in open source CMS waters to rather mixed reactions.
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Some have said that the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 (news, site ) isn't really a big deal. Others disagree. If you are interested in its business intelligence capabilities and SharePoint integration, then you will fall into the first category.
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The folks at open source cms SilverStripe (news, site) recently released SilverStripe 2.4 alpha. This release contains a number of improvements, but one in particular involves a new module designed to improve CMS publishing workflow. Top Five SilverStripe 2.
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Code named "Madison", Microsoft's new data warehousing solution for SQL Server 2008 R2 (news, site) is now available as a CTP. A Brand New SQL Server Microsoft's release of SQL Server 2008 R2 has sparked a bit of interest.
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