Digital twins will aid developers in 2023
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 by Richard Harris
Dr. William Bain is the founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, which develops software products to provide operational intelligence for live systems using scalable, in-memory computing. Bill earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University. Over a 40-year career focused on parallel computing, he has contributed to advancements at Bell Labs Research, Intel, a...
.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
New intelligence suite aims to help tackle problems with growing IT
Friday, July 12, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Snow Software announced a new suite of offerings to better empower customers to address their growing IT operations, cloud shift and digital transformation challenges. This new set of offerings is aligned to strategic business outcomes, providing customers with product choices that will better meet their unique needs now and in the future.
“The market has evolv...
Migrating old Windows 2008 apps over to Docker just got easier
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Docker has announced the Windows Server Application Migration Program that lets customers quickly and easily migrate and modernize legacy Windows applications, while driving continuous innovation across any application.
With a large percentage of Windows Server applications still running on Windows Server 2003 or 2008, companies that postpone migrating leg...
Windocks delivers Docker implementation and database cloning
Monday, April 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Windocks 2.0 Beta has now been released, featuring SQL Server containers with integrated database cloning and Web console. The company also announced a partnering program to enable third party clone integration with SQL Server containers.“SQL Server DBAs and developers are asking for simpler, affordable, container-native database cloning. Current solutions involve too m...
DH2i expands to the Asia Pacific Market
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DH2i Company has announced the expansion of its DxAdvantage Partner Program into the Asia Pacific (APAC) market. Key to the expansion is the addition of Korea Cyber Tech Inc. and ApON Innovative Solutions to the DH2i DxAdvantage Partner Program. This strategic partnership enables them to be providers of DxEnterprise software. According to Gartner's recently publish...
Microsoft Azure Marketplace Gets InMemory Computing Image From Hazelcast
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hazelcast has released the open source version of Hazelcast 3.6.3 as an image in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to allow Microsoft Azure customers to run and provision Hazelcast for in-memory computing. Hazelcast provides an in-memory data layer that scales elastically with demand. Cloud developers can drop Hazelcast into their applic...
Connect Apps, Data, and Devices Anywhere With the New Azure Logic App Service
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released into general availability Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft’s Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) that provides hybrid application connectivity to connect traditional on-premises systems and cloud-native applications. Logic Apps makes it possible to complete projects faster and iterate more efficiently by offering a set of out-of-the-box conn...
Microsoft Opens the Azure Container Service to Windows Server Developers in Limited Preview
Thursday, July 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Azure team has announced a limited preview of Azure Container Service for Windows Server containers. With this preview, Microsoft is opening the Azure Container Service to Windows Server developers for the first time.Azure Container Service is designed for enterprises, ISVs and startups looking to quickly put containers into production. It combines Azure’s...
DH2i Releases New Container Platform for Microsoft SQL Server
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
DH2i Company has launched a new Containers as a Service (CaaS) solution for Microsoft SQL Server. The new offering enables SQL Server users to plug-into DH2i's DxEnterprise container management software in the cloud. DH2i is utilizing Rackspace to back its CaaS solution. The release of DH2i's CaaS for Microsoft SQL Server enables users to deploy Windows Server appl...
Microsoft Offers Developer Updates for Microsoft Office and Azure Services
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In addition to the announcements we covered here during the Microsoft Build 2016 developer conference, there is now new functionality for developers to leverage Microsoft Office, Xamarin’s capabilities in Visual Studio Community, and new Azure Services.Microsoft Office PlatformAmong the new opportunities for developers to build on the Office platform includes ...
Out of Band Update for Flash
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by James Rowney
MS16-036 is a critical out of band update and resolves 20 vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player on all supported versions of Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10. This bulletin addresses vulnerabilities by updating the Adobe Flash libraries contained within all supported versions of Internet Explorer and Microsoft...
Windows 10 IoT Core Now Available for Commercial OEM-ODMs
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced that its Windows 10 IoT Core is now available for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and Original Device Manufacturers (ODM).The Windows 10 IoT Core offers a platform for IoT devices with enterprise-grade security from the device to the cloud, and native connectivity for machine-to-machine and machine-to-cloud scenarios with Azure IoT technol...
Intel Introduces Parallel Studio XE 2016
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has introduced Parallel Studio XE 2016, the latest installment of its developer toolkit for high performance computing (HPC) and technical computing applications. Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 helps developers design, build, verify and tune code in Fortran, C++, C, and Java. This suite of compilers, libraries, debugging facilities, and analysis tools, targets...
Microsoft Shows Docker Some Love with New Windows Server Containers
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released the first preview of Windows Server Containers as part of its Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 release. The release includes support for the Windows platform in the Docker Engine and a preview of the Docker Engine for Windows. Visual Studio Tools for Docker has been updated to support Windows Server Containers, providing the ability to...
Docker Releases New Docker Trusted Registry
Monday, June 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker has announced the general availability of new commercial solutions for Dockerized distributed applications offering new support services, certified Docker Engines and management tools. The new offering is available for on-premises or cloud-based configurations and is available directly from Docker as well as through Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft, with s...
Flexera Software Provides Updates to InstallShield Windows Installer
Thursday, June 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Flexera Software has released InstallShield 2015, a Windows installer which simplifies installations for cloud, Web, virtual and traditional environments. This latest version of InstallShield comes with a number of updates to help developers ensure the compatibility of their installations with the latest technologies including Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015 and SHA-256 ...
Microsoft Announces a Number of Intelligent Cloud Services
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
At its Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced a number of Intelligent cloud services. Following is a highlight of these new services:In preview this summer, Microsoft Azure Stack brings the Azure user experience and both infrastructure and platform-as-a-service capabilities into customers’ datacenters. With Azure Stack IT teams can blend enterprise applications with mod...
Microsoft's New Azure Service Fabric Helps Developers Scale Cloud Services
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced a new PaaS solution - Azure Service Fabric - to enable the ability for developers to build cloud services with a high degree of scalability and customization. The announcement follows on the heels of last month’s announcement of the Azure App Service, a PaaS solution for developers who need to create enterprise-grade web and mobile app exper...
Microsoft Releases Nano Server For Cloud Apps and Containers
Sunday, April 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
The newly released Microsoft Nano Server is a purpose-built operating system designed to run born-in-the-cloud applications and containers offering an OS that delivers speed, agility and lower resource consumption.Nano Server is a deeply refactored version of Windows Server with a small footprint and remotely managed installation, optimized for the cloud and a DevOps wo...
Microsoft Implementing AllJoyn Into Windows 10 to Support IoT Interoperability
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced that it is implementing AllJoyn into Windows 10 and that developers in the Windows Insider program can develop against in-box Windows AllJoyn bits. In implementing AllJoyn support in Windows products, Microsoft is contributing its proposed changes to the software framework back into the AllJoyn open source project. Microsoft Open Technologie...
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft Cloud Platform System
Thursday, October 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released several enhancements to its hyper-scale, enterprise-grade, hybrid cloud platform, including the new Azure G-series of virtual machines and Premium Storage. The company also announced the general availability of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System, powered by Dell; and a new Azure Marketplace in Australia.General availability of Azure in the Austra...
Windows Build 2014 Registration is Now Open
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has now opened registration for Build 2014 which will again be back at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on April 2 – 4. The registration cost is $2095.Here is what Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President of Developer Platform & Evangelism and Chief Evangelist for Microsoft, had to say about the event.“Build is our premier developer event,...
Windows App Developers Can Now Set Calendars for Windows Build 2014
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has set the dates for Windows Build 2014 which will be held April 2 - April 4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Registration opens Jan 14, 2014 and the cost is $2095.
The event will be sure to feature the launch of what’s next for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows Server, Visual Studio and much more. We’ve already booked our calendars and ...
Microsoft Build Developer Conference: June 26 28 In San Francisco
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Build is Microsoft’s developer conference for its Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server and Azure platforms.The company just announced that Build 2013 will take place June 26-28 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Registration opens at 09:00am PDT, April 2, 2013 Early bird (first 500): $1,595 // Full: $2,095As Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s corporate vic...
Windows Phone 8 Support Ends July 2014
Monday, March 18, 2013 by Richard Harris
In a recent support document from Microsoft, they have announced the end of support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 for the second half of 2014.This seems to indicate that they are committed to the 18 month life cycle for mobile products but there is no mention of what's coming next either, though there are rumors of a new Windows device for the 2013 holi...
