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A closer look at Azure Synapse Link
Announced at the Build conference last week, Azure Synapse Link extends the cloud data warehousing service to operational data, starting with Azure Cosmos DB. Microsoft also claims Link works without impacting Cosmos DB. The answer on how it does that might surprise you.
Blue Prism adds bring your own license to Oracle Cloud
The partnership will expand Blue Prism's distribution to Oracle's customer base.
Box beats Q1 estimates as enterprises look for secure remote work solutions
While the company expects enterprise customers to continue increasing their adoption of Box services, it does anticipate some softness from small business customers.
Workday, Microsoft forge partnership revolving around Adaptive Planning, Teams, Azure integration
Microsoft will adopt Workday Adaptive Planning, which will run on Azure. Separately, Workday reported better-than-expected first quarter results and outlined plans to integrate with Salesforce's Work.com.
Where is my HBO Max? Here's why Roku and Fire TV users don't get the upgrade
If you're using a Roku or Fire TV, don't expect to see HBO Max anytime soon. Because of back-room deals (or lack thereof), users of the most popular streaming boxes are out of luck.
Become a cloud pro: Microsoft Azure certification prep bundle is 95% off
Azure continues to be Microsoft's golden goose and beat growth forecasts.
Splunk rolls out cloud updates, new machine learning capabilities
Other updates the Splunk platform include improvements in mobile device management and in real-time stream processing
Wipro: 10 business and leadership lessons from a company with a big heart
Wipro kept its main campuses open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Wipro kitchens, it served over two million meals. The president of Wipro talks about how companies can navigate safely in a post-pandemic world.
It's time to spin AWS out of Amazon: They regulate utilities, don't they?
The world is learning that the big web companies have too much power and too little accountability. They are now utilities, essential to people's daily lives, and should be regulated as such. An easy place to start: Amazon Web Services. Here's why.
Zoom's torrid 90 day sprint: Security, increased competition and becoming a verb
With Zoom's first quarter earnings on deck it's worth considering how much the company's standing, market cap and prospects have changed in just 90 days amid the move to remote work.
Telstra's AFL Player Tracker was a lesson in more than just getting stats to fans
The telco had to consider more than just sensors, which ended up being a lesson in how to communicate security to all stakeholders.
RangeAmp attacks can take down websites and CDN servers
Twelve of thirteen CDN providers said they fixed or planned to fix the problem.
APIs published, APIs consumed: mainstream enterprises increasingly behave like software vendors
Mainstream enterprises increasingly reach out to customers with APIs, digital services. Unlike software providers though, many still have mostly on-premises infrastructure.
Alibaba delivers strong financial results, cloud revenue climbs 58%
Alibaba reported better-than-expected quarterly financial results on Friday fueled by a surge in online retail sales in China and strong growth in the firm's cloud business.
Twilio tapped to provide communications layer for NYC's contact tracing program
The city will deploy a cloud-based contact center on Twilio Flex and leverage Twilio SMS and Voice as part of its COVID-19 tracing program.
Top programming languages, 5G worries, cloud computing, and more: Research round-up
All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.
IT spending, cloud computing, big data, virtual reality, and more: Research round-up
All the data that matters to you from the past month in technology news.
Provision a WordPress site in 30 minutes or less using Amazon AWS Lightsail
Amazon's AWS can be daunting in terms of its almost overwhelming complexity. But Lightsail makes it easy. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create a full WordPress install in about five minutes.
Julia programming language, cloud computing, cybersecurity worries: Research round-up
All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.
The biggest events in Linux's history
A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.
How Microsoft lost its monopoly in web browsers
At the dawn of the Internet age, Microsoft used every trick it knew to dominate the World Wide Web. That strategy worked for a few years, but aggressive antitrust enforcement and equally aggressive competitors crushed the company's onetime dominance. Here's a quarter-century of history that explains just what happened.
Cloud services: 24 lesser-known web services your business needs to try
In this guide, we've spotlighted 24 cloud-based services that can take your business to the next level. There's a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Windows 10 May 2019 Update: The new features that matter most
Windows 10 version 1903, which will be officially dubbed the May 2019 Update, begins rolling out soon. Here are some of the new capabilities you can expect in yet another feature-packed semi-annual release. (This gallery is based on a near-final Insider Preview release.)
Cloud computing trends, where developers want to live, AI skills, and 5G: Research round-up
All the data that matters to you from the past month in technology news.
Create your own free Adobe Creative Cloud with free and open source software
While Creative Cloud has its strong benefits, it's also costly. If you want to accomplish most of what you can with Creative Cloud, but pay absolutely nothing, these products can help.
Data center automation, IT skills, IoT and digital transformation: Research round-up
Our analysis of the data that matters from the past month.
These rooms full of TVs are how Amazon gets Prime Video to look sharp on every device
Photos: Amazon needs to test its video service across lots and lots (and lots) of TVs. Here's an inside look.
IT spending, smartwatches, AI and the cloud: Research round-up
We tell the story of key technology trends from the past month.
How to turn your iPhone into a business workhorse: Add these apps and accessories, and tweak these settings
Here's how, with a few tweaks and accessories, you can transform your iPhone into a business workhorse that will allow you to get serious work done.
The dumbest passwords people still use
Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger
New York City's contact-tracing program will rely on Twilio for communications
The city will deploy a cloud-based contact center on Twilio Flex and leverage Twilio SMS and Voice as part of its COVID-19 tracing program.
Some of Europe's top supercomputers hijacked to mine cryptocurrency
Confirmed infections have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. Another suspected infection was reported in Spain.
Google announces new integrated first-party offering with VMware
The new Google Cloud VMware Engine delivers a fully-managed VMware Cloud Foundation stack in a dedicated environment on Google Cloud infrastructure
Microsoft expands data centre region to New Zealand
Customers will be able to store their data locally.
VMware-based cloud technology now available on Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution is now available in mainland China and Hong Kong.
Google offers Meet for free in Zoom-killer race
Google is making Meets, a video conferencing service via G Suite, free and available to everyone.
Google overhauls interface for sharing documents
For Google Docs, Drives, Sheets, and Slides users, sharing files just got easier and more secure.
GIC and Equinix Partner to Build Data Centres in Japan
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How to manage the increase in cloud demand? This is Microsoft's plan
Microsoft officials say they've been taking some behind-the-scenes steps to try to head off current and future cloud capacity issues.
University of Sydney using cloud to prevent the Tasmanian devil from extinction
What was previously a laborious and resource intensive process is now sped up thanks to the processing capability of the AWS cloud.
Data centers keep the world running: This is how they're dealing with the crisis
Data centers have been preparing since January to make sure that the world would stay connected amid the coronavirus crisis.
New AppFlow gives AWS customers more control over SaaS data flows
Amazon also announced that its EC2 Inf1 instances are available on AWS SageMaker.
GE Healthcare and Microsoft partner to help hospitals fight COVID-19
Together they have developed remote data monitoring technology.
Google opens its Cloud Healthcare API to help COVID-19 doctors
The Cloud Healthcare API will allow doctors to analyse data using cloud-computing technologies.
16 email hosting services to choose from
Are you a small business or home office worker ready to graduate from free email offerings, present a professional address, and exert some control over your business communications? Then you'll want to sign up with an email hosting provider.
Xero (2014) review: Cloud-based accounting service for SMEs continues to improve
This cloud-based small-business accounting service provides a well-planned set of tools for staying on top of your finances and streamlining the processes involved.
Azure RemoteApp beta preview: Cloud-hosted desktop apps for multiple platforms
Microsoft is developing a set of cloud-based tools for managing and deploying session virtualisation servers, allowing you to publish and share apps on Windows, iOS, Android, OS X and (soon) Windows Phone devices. We take the beta for a test drive.
Xero Touch for Android, First Take: Much-improved native mobile Xero client
A quicker and slicker new app for the online Xero accounting service adds automatic reconciliation of bank accounts, allowing Android users to stay on top of their finances.
Office 2013: a pleasant surprise
After a week of using Office 2013 we're pleasantly surprised. The changes Microsoft has made to support Windows 8 — and specifically Windows 8 tablets — are logical, and they work well with more traditional ways of using Office.
Windows Intune 3.0: Preview
Version 3.0 of Microsoft's cloud-hosted management platform is now available, adding support for mobile devices — including iPhones, iPads and Android.
Xero
Xero is an affordable online accounting service that delivers key bookkeeping functionality for small businesses in an admirably straightforward way.
Actinic Online
A big step up from Actinic Express, which it replaces, Actinic Online delivers everything an SME requires to build and run an online store via the cloud. It's not perfect, but it is affordable and worth evaluating if you need to start selling online.
Cortado ThinPrint Printer Dashboard
Cortado's ThinPrint Printer Dashboard is a potentially useful cloud application for monitoring the printers on your network. We had a few issues in this review, which hopefully will be addressed in a forthcoming update.
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