Category Archives: Microsoft

Windows Azure IaaS Takes Aim At Amazon Web Services Via Price, Functionality And Service

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

This was the week where Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. More than a simple declaration of production-grade availability, Microsoft’s announcement about its IaaS platform delivered the strongest possible elaboration of its intent to … Continue reading →

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Understanding the December 2012 Windows Azure Outage

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

From December 28 to December 30, Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform experienced an outage for its South Central US Region that arrived head upon heels after the Amazon Web Services Christmas eve outage that became famous for incapacitating Netflix. The outage … Continue reading →

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OpenStack Decides To Remove Hyper-V From Essex Release

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

OpenStack decided to remove the code that supports Hyper-V despite a statement from Microsoft that pledged a “commitment” to working with OpenStack to resolve the issues with the unmaintained and broken code. The code would have allowed OpenStack users to … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Committed to Support For Hyper-V With OpenStack

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

According to an IDG news article by Nancy Gohring, Microsoft Corporation is committed to supporting Hyper-V with OpenStack. Microsoft apparently released a statement claiming that it is “committed to working with the community to resolve the current issues with Hyper-V … Continue reading →

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Oracle Partners With Cloudera For Newly Available Big Data Appliance

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

On Tuesday, Oracle declared the availability of the Big Data appliance that it introduced to the world at its October conference Oracle Open World. The appliance runs on Linux and features Cloudera’s version of Apache Hadoop (CDH), Cloudera Manager for … Continue reading →

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Big Data 2011: The Year in Review

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

If 2011 was the year of Cloud Computing, then 2012 will surely be the year of Big Data. Big Data has yet to arrive in the way cloud computing has, but the framework for its widespread deployment as a commodity … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Announces Updates to Windows Azure

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

Microsoft today announced a set of updates to Windows Azure, its Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing offering that was launched in February 2010. Microsoft grouped the updates into the categories of Ease of Use, Interoperability and Overall Value. … Continue reading →

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Big Data Goes Social With EMC’s Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

EMC announced the release of its Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) on Thursday. The Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform, a unified platform for processing structured and unstructured data, represents EMC’s latest move to consolidate its positioning in the Big Data space … Continue reading →

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