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Microsoft Pressuring AWS In The Clouds
A closely watched assessment of the cloud computing industry again ranks Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider (IaaS), but notes that rival Microsoft is slowly ...Full Article
Microsoft Adds Beefy Compute, File Service To Azure
It was a cloudy week for Microsoft at its annual TechEd shindig, which was held in Houston, Texas, this time around. The consistent theme of the announcements has been ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Is About More Than Being Hyper
The funny thing about the largest cloud computing providers is that they are all bragging about the scale at which they can provide compute, storage, and networking capacity. But ...Full Article
Blue Cross Blue Shield Streamlines Networking, Virtualization
You want your healthcare insurance provider to run a lean and mean IT shop, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is always looking at new technologies to make ...Full Article
DataCore SANsymphony Boosts Flash, Ends ‘Storage Islands’
Software-defined storage vendor DataCore Software rolled out the latest version of its SANsymphony virtual storage area network, which seeks to boost utilization of pricey flash storage technology while pulling ...Full Article
Fusion-io Flash Pushes SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Further
There is no such thing as too much performance improvement. Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 relational database is shipping, and enterprises are now trying to figure out how to best ...Full Article
Violin Scales Back Windows Flash Array – For Now
Violin Memory was the first of the new breed of flash array companies to go public and the company is trying to stay ahead of the pack by more ...Full Article
Equinix Helps Microsoft Roll Out Azure ExpressRoute Globally
Microsoft is partnering with datacenter colocation service provider Equinix to deliver its Windows Azure ExpressRoute private network connection service to international customers. Equinix said Azure ExpressRoute would be provided ...Full Article
Microsoft Targets VMware Customers With Converter Tool
Microsoft has rolled a new version of its Virtual Machine Converter tool aimed squarely at poaching customers from X86 server virtualization leader VMware. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 is ...Full Article
Red Hat Joins The Crowd On Google Cloud
The cloud is making for strange bedfellows, which may turn out to be another of its attributes as prices decline. Case in point: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ...Full Article
