March, 2012

by STB Blogger

Today, we’re excited to announce the keynote lineup for this year’s upcoming TechEd North America and TechEd Europe events! TechEd is Microsoft’s premier technology conference for IT professionals and developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft’s current and soon-to-be-released suite of products, solutions, tools and services. Every year technology professionals gather to immerse themselves in more than 1,000 learning opportunities that cover an unparalleled breadth and depth of Microsoft technologies.

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by STB Blogger

New tools to support interoperability with SQL Server 2012

Microsoft has introduced a variety of tools that allow consistent data access to SQL Server 2012 across multiple platforms. These allow developers to build secure, highly available and high-performance applications for SQL Server in .NET, C/C++, Java and PHP, both on-premises and in the cloud.

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by STB Blogger Announcing Reduced Pricing for Windows Azure Compute and Storage In February, Microsoft announced significant price reductions and a new entry level database option to meet customer needs on both ends of the database spectrum. Today...

Today Microsoft made several announcements regarding the company’s commitment to help customers deal with any data, any size, anywhere.  For more information on the newest version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s work with big data, and updates to Microsoft’s data warehousing solutions, read on.

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Today, Microsoft Corp. released a commissioned study from analyst firm IDC suggesting that cloud computing will be a major source of job growth.  IDC’s research indicates that by 2015, cloud computing will generate 14 million new jobs globally and revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion per year.

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Today on the Windows Server blog, corporate vice president Bill Laing writes about the Windows Server “8” beta.

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