Microsoft's Australian Azure region 'just around the corner'
Microsoft is preparing to provide Azure services from within Australia in "a matter of months", according to the software vendor's Australian managing director Pip Marlow.
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Student services provider re-architects, jumps to Microsoft's cloud
Student Edge, a student card provider that offers information and access to discounts for secondary and tertiary students, has completed a complete re-architecture of its dated core systems that run its online portal. In the process, the company made the leap from its own hardware to running in Windows Azure.
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Microsoft announces local region for Azure cloud
Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a new Australian region for its Windows Azure family of cloud services.
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Technologies to watch 2013: Windows Server 2012 cannot be ignored
Windows Server 2012 packs so many new features large and small that any Microsoft shop looking to gain advantages in cost and functionality will have to seriously consider upgrading this year.
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Hadoop on Windows Azure: Hive vs. JavaScript for processing big data
For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which was designed for this purpose, is written in Java and was not available to .Net developers. So, Microsoft launched the Hadoop on Windows Azure service to make it possible to distribute the load and speed up big data computations.
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What Microsoft Azure means to SMBs: not much, yet
Small and medium-sized businesses have more important things to worry about than Microsoft's new Azure, a cloud-resident platform for building applications served to users online.