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Windows Azure Gets Node.js, SQL Azure Federation, Increased DB Limits
Windows Azure team announced major updates including support for Node.js, better scalability for SQL Azure through Federation and higher individual DB Size limits (upto 150 GB), a limited preview for Hadoop and more.
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.NET Framework Support for Cloud Foundry Through Open Source Contribution From Tier 3
Cloud service provider Tier 3 has released Iron Foundry, a .NET-friendly fork of VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service. Iron Foundry gives the sizeable number of .NET developers an open source alternative to Windows Azure and lets them participate in the increasingly popular Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
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Forrester CEO: The Web is a Software Architecture and the App Internet is the Next Wave
In his recent presentation at the Le Web 2011 conference in Paris, Forrester Research's Chairman and CEO George Colony claimed that most thinking models about the Internet and the Web are outdated. Moreover, users already seem to be saturated by the Social Network Model. According to Colony, the next real big thing will be the App Internet.
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Microsoft Upgrades Developer Tools and SaaS Capabilities for Dynamics CRM
Microsoft has released new tools to accelerate development of custom components in Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions. At the same time, they published an update to Dynamics CRM Online that includes better integration with Office 365 and the introduction of social capabilities.
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Windows Azure SDK 1.6 Streamlines Azure Development in Visual Studio
Publishing improvements, Team Build capability and streamlined service creation allow developers to centrally manage all aspects of application creation and deployment.
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Analysis Of Web API Versioning Options
Refering to a questions over versioning conventions used OpenStack Api, Mark Nottingham provides an analysis of the various strategies for versioning Web API in the cloud.
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WSO2 Releases New Versions of WSO2 Carbon and Stratos
WSO2 has added a new Ghost Deployer, a Cassandra-based Column Store Service, an Apache Subversion-based Deployment and an enhanced Load Balancer to both Carbon and Stratos. This functionality is also available on StratosLive.
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VMware's CloudFoundry Service Gains Support for PostgreSQL
VMware is adding support for PostgreSQL to CloudFoundry, it's open source PAAS solution.
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Amazon/Microsoft Deal Expanded to Include BizSpark and SQL Server 2012
Amazon has announced two licensing deals with Microsoft. The first eliminates the licensing fees for running Microsoft software on EC2 for BizSpark members. The second allows all developers to run the preview of SQL Server 2012 on EC2. It should be noted that normal EC2 service rates still apply for both.
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Making Sense of the Social Web with Microsoft Social Analytics (Vancouver)
Microsoft is making available a cloud service called Social Analytics for users interested in analyzing Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, etc. in order to get insight on the trends on the social web.
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10 Predictions About Cloud Computing
In preparation for an panel discussion for a future of cloud computing event in Israel, Geva Perry, a frequent speaker on cloud computing at corporations and industry events, published his predictions on the future of cloud computing.
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Microsoft “Data Explorer” – Discover, Enrich, Publish Data
Microsoft announced a new Cloud Service codenamed “Data Explorer”, to be available by November. With this service, you can manage related data from disparate data sources, combine and curate data and then share results with others. The service also works with Azure data market and Bing to make third party datasets available wherever relevant.
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Hadoop-as-a-Service from Amazon, Cloudera, Microsoft and IBM
Companies rely more and more on big data when making their decisions. Amazon, Cloudera, and IBM have announced their Hadoop-as-a-Service offerings, while Microsoft promises to do the same next year.
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Usergrid: a New Open Source Platform for Mobile and Rich Client Applications
Last week, Ed Anuff, founder of Usergrid, announced the first source code release available on GitHub. Usergrid is a comprehensive platform stack for mobile and rich client applications. It can be deployed as a highly scalable Cloud service, it is built in Java and runs on top of Cassandra.
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IBM introduces new Platform-as-a-Service Solution
On 12th October IBM has unveiled in New York what the IT company claims to be the industry’s most advanced cloud services and software designed from the ground up for enterprise clients.