Microsoft delivers test build of tool for cloud database development
Microsoft is making available a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of "Houston," a tool for those looking to do rapid database development in the cloud.
Microsoft is making available a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of "Houston," a tool for those looking to do rapid database development in the cloud.
Microsoft is running an ad in USA Today, in the form of an open letter to VMware customers, asking them to talk to Microsoft before signing a contract that might lock them in to a less-than-complete cloud solution from Redmond's foremost virtualization rival.
Microsoft is making available to its volume-license customers with Software Assurance new releases of a number of virtualization tools as of March 10.
Microsoft is making good on its year-ago promise to match Amazon on cloud pricing with new worldwide cloud-storage price cuts coming in March.
Microsoft and partner Hewlett-Packard are holding a press conference this morning (January 13), where the pair are planning to announce a new joint investment "to prepare customers for the next generation of business computing," according to information provided to the media.
Microsoft is crystalizing its "private cloud" positioning and plans to run it by the 6,000 or so partners attending its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week.
Microsoft and Dropbox are partnering to improve integration between Dropbox and Microsoft Office.
VMware made its big "private cloud" pitch last week with its introduction of vSphere. Not to be outdone, Microsoft is fleshing out its private cloud positioning at the annual Microsoft Management Summit this week in Las Vegas.
Microsoft archrival VMWare announced this week a set of future technologies called the "Virtual Datacenter OS" that some are comparing with Windows Server 2008. But Windows Server 2008 and its integrated Hyper-V hypervisor aren't what Microsoft is going to be pitting against VMware, Google and Amazon in the brave, new datacenter-centric world
The Microsoft "Big Brains" series, via which I am profiling Microsoft's roughly two dozen Technical Fellows, continues. This week's fellow is Dave Campbell, the head of strategy and architecture for SQL Services.