Burley Kawasaki, the director of Microsoft's Connected System Division, explains why AppFabric is the next logical step in .NET abstraction.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/19/2009
Enterprise customers that start to use cloud services will also host applications and/or data on premises.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/19/2009
Microsoft officials briefed financial analysts on the company's cloud computing strategy at its Professional Developers Conference on Wednesday.
Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell details the Dallas data application. Could it emerge as the first killer app for the cloud?
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/17/2009
Microsoft's dev confab keynote spotlights Windows Azure and cloud development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/17/2009
Thousands of attendees are expected to gather in Los Angeles this week to learn more about Microsoft's developer platform strategy.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/16/2009
Google described its efforts in the enterprise software space, including its e-mail contract win with the city of Los Angeles.
IBM today launched application lifecycle management and test and development tools for its public and private cloud-based services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/05/2009
The Q3 release offers a native Silverlight report viewer and full ORM support for SQL Azure, among other enhancements.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2009
Companies will provide single IDE for developing enterprise-grade Flash and API apps deployed on Force.com.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/03/2009
How factoring out common patterns in your Azure worker roles can improve development.
A year after the first technical previews of Azure, Microsoft is launching a less-ambitious platform with forklift revisions based on developer feedback.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2009
Microsoft will let developers who use Eclipse-based IDEs integrate their Java and PHP applications with the latest versions of Windows, Silverlight and the forthcoming Azure cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2009
In what could be an escalating war in the emerging arena of cloud-based computing services, Amazon today said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using the MySQL database The company today also said that it plans to slash the costs of its EC2 service by as much as 15 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2009
The president of Microsoft's Business Division got the hot seat at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo event last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/26/2009
Zend Technologies, creator and commercial maintainer of the PHP dynamic scripting language, Wednesday kicked off its ZendCon conference by releasing the first public beta of its Zend Server 5.0 Web-app server.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/21/2009
Microsoft previewed the next generation of its popular SharePoint Server family, which will sport a new user interface, tighter integration capabilities, a cloud-based version and much-needed support for the company's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft said today it is discontinuing its beta of a service that lets developers building Silverlight-based applications host and distribute them free of charge and will be replaced by a paid alternative based on the company's forthcoming Azure cloud-based offering.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft sent a letter to T-Mobile Sidekick users claiming that most of the customer data thought to be lost during a network failure is now being restored.
In a move that will extend the reach beyond its core focus of enterprise testing and performance management, Compuware Corp. said it will acquire Gomez Inc. for $295 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2009