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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test

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Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test
Microsoft Azure's cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs). Read More


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Measuring Private Cloud Payback
With 2,000 employees spread across five continents, balancing the tradeoff between complexity and performance is no easy task. See how a natural resources firm leveraged WAN optimization to deploy their private cloud and achieve bandwidth utilization reductions of 70%-90% without having to make changes to routers or QoS configurations. Read now!

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Service Cloud: Deliver Next Generation of Customer Service
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Microsoft shows off iPhone, iPad and Android clients, voice calls between Lync server and Skype
Microsoft demonstrated at Lync Conference 2013 new capabilities of its Lync unified communications platform, including clients for Android devices, iPhones and iPads that support VoIP. Read More

What Office 2013's draconian licensing policy really means for you
Microsoft might be selling two versions of its Office suite, but its licensing policies suggest the company is not only trying to thwart software piracy, but also drive customers away from Office 2013 and over to the Office 365 subscription model. Read More

Microsoft's Windows 8 app plan: One code base to rule them all
Microsoft's Windows strategy is a bit hit or miss, with Windows Phone seeming to have a more positive reception than Windows 8 for PCs. But one accomplishment you have to applaud Microsoft for is unifying the platforms. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Cisco

The Total Economic Impact of Desktop Virtualization
Forrester interviewed four existing Cisco customers and found that a composite company experienced a risk-adjusted ROI of 72% with desktop virtualization based on VXI. Learn about the potential costs, benefits, and total economic impact. Read Now

Surface sales aren't dominating, and that's OK with Microsoft's Ballmer
PC makers may not be satisfied with Windows 8 hardware sales, but at least they needn't worry about Microsoft's Surface tablets swallowing the industry whole. Read More

How Microsoft will change forever and thrive again
Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that's an eternity. Read More

Cisco declares war on Microsoft unified communications system
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft's first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco's enterprise UC offerings. Read More


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Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT
This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More.

Critical infrastructure protection: Maybe thinking good thoughts will make us safe
Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) retired in January after quite a colorful two-dozen years in the U.S. Senate. One of the major issues he pushed for during his last few years in office was protection of the U.S. critical infrastructure. Along with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lieberman put forth a series of bills aimed at requiring some level of protection for such infrastructure, the last of these being voted down in November. Read More

Microsoft promises stronger ties between Lync, Skype
Microsoft is launching new capabilities in its Lync communication platform that ties Lync and Skype together to enable audio call and Instant Messaging interoperability as well as shared presence. Read More

Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle's legal fight against Google on Java
Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. Read More

 
 
 

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