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Web hosting automation company, Ensim Corporation, has announced that NTT
America, Enterprise Hosting has selected Ensim Unify as its service delivery
platform for its new NTT Communications Hosted Exchange offer targeting
midsized and multinational enterprises.
As a result of the selection, Ensim completed a rapid deployment and
implementation with NTT America, Enterprise Hosting which has now gone live
with its service trials.
Hideki Kurihara, NTT America, General Manager and Vice President, Enterprise
Hosting commented on the recent deployment, ''We are very excited about the
opportunity to better serve the unique messaging needs of midsized and
multinational enterprises and time to market was a top priority for us. Ensim
demonstrated a robust and scalable multi-service delivery platform that could
support our existing and future services. Their support for Hosted ... (more)
Earlier this week Tim Heuer and I got a chance to be interviewed on the
HerdingCode podcast. Thanks to Jon Galloway and co for a great show!.. It
was a very fun experience. Here is the topic list we covered... Fun,
fun stuff!
Listen to our Silverlight 2 podcast!
What's new? The relationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2 The Eclipse
for Silverlight development The Open Specification Promise for XAML Progress
on Mono / Moonlight The elevator speech on Silverlight How Silverlight fits
in with AJAX Can Silverlight support separation of concerns and testability?
Will Microsoft be shipping frameworks for Silverlight? Will Silverlight
support offline scenarios Silverlight as a "line of business" platform The
WPF / Silverlight connection The Silverlight open source community The Flash
question The casual gaming market Silverlight performance vs. Javascript
Specul... (more)
Today we released the .Net SDK beta. It opens the doors for developers to
write storage plugins.
One of the most common feature requests was adding more and more storage
plugin, such as Flickr, CloudFile and etc. Now the SDK enables more
developers to do so and do it with ease in .NET language. We wanted the
Gladinet Cloud Desktop to be a platform and now the SDK enables it even more.
Inside the SDK, you will find a storage plugin example for Windows Azure
Storage Service. As you see the full source code for the Azure plugin, you
know we are also going down the path of open source too. The Windows Azure
Storage plugin will find its way into the open source site (such as
SourceForge, CodePlex and etc). The Azure Storage plugin will also be fully
supported here in a couple of months as a commercial quality plugin with
version 1.3.
Check it out at http://www.gladinet.com... (more)
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Cloud News Fujitsu is launching a big data cloud service that will enable the
capture and analysis of customer data to help drive decision-making. The
service includes using Fujitsu’s software and systems to gather telemetry
and data from sensors, application transactions, clickstreams, logs,
multimedia files and other data formats, processing the data and
reintegrating the data with existing systems. Read more in this The Register
article. The OASIS standards body has proposed a new cloud portability
standard (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications).
Read more in this CIOL article. Microsoft is repositioning its System Center
management suite to make it the central management console, not only for
Wi... (more)
Consumer web applications today need to be web-scale to handle the increasing
traffic requirements. One of the key components of the contemporary web
application architecture is storage. Social networking and media sites are
dealing with massive user generated content that is growing
disproportionately. This is where Cloud storage can help. By leveraging the
Cloud storage effectively, applications can scale better.
Windows Azure Storage has multiple offerings in the form of Blob, Table and
Queues. Blob are used to store binary objects like images, videos and other
static assets while Table is used for dealing with the flexible, schema-less
entities. Queues allow asynchronous communication across the role instances
and components of Cloud applications.
In this article, we will see how PHP developers can talk to Azure Blob
storage to store and retrieve objects. Befo... (more)
The Windows Azure platform just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday we
announced the upcoming preview of the new Windows Azure Media Services.
Windows Azure Media Services form an extensible media platform that
integrates the best of the Microsoft Media Platform and third-party media
components in Windows Azure. Media Services provide a media pipeline in the
cloud that enables industry partners to extend or replace component
technologies. ISVs and media providers can use Media Services to build
end-to-end media solutions.
Media Services include the following set of capabilities for building media
solutions:
Ingesting & encoding Content protection On-demand streaming Live streaming
Media management, tagging, and analytics REST API
The Windows Azure Media Services preview will be available at no cost
(charges for associated Windows Azure features like Storage, ... (more)
Thanks to our friends at Oakwood Systems, I have a series of free, hands-on
“kick start” events to tell you about. Here’s the text from an e-mail
I just received:
What is the best way to determine if Windows Azure might be a fit for your
organization?
Microsoft is offering your organization the opportunity to learn more about
Windows Azure in a hands-on lab environment through our upcoming Kick Start
Training Events. Developed with Microsoft, and delivered by one of
Oakwood's certified Azure architects, this training will help you put Azure
in context for your own organization.
Those who attend will learn how to build a web application that runs in
Windows Azure, how to sign up for free time in the cloud, and how to build a
typical web application using the same ASP.NET tools that are being used
today. We'll review the types of applications that make sense to ... (more)
The following question was asked by Joobly-Goop (not his real name) at a
recent TechNet Event, in the context of our doing a Boot-From-VHD
configuration and then dual-booting into the Operating System that was in the
Virtual Hard Disk (.VHD) file…
I certainly understand your confusion, J.G. (May I call you J.G.?) If
I’m running an operating system from within a VHD file, which is the file
representing hard disks used in Hyper-V based virtual machines, then it might
make sense to assume that Hyper-V is involved in some way. But actually,
it’s not.
VHD files are really just a standard file format that represent a container
of sorts. It represents a disk. And if that “disk” is formatted and
populated, it contains a file system.
“You mean.. like a hard disk can contain a file system?”
Bingo. So if I can boot and run an operating system from my mounted (and
th... (more)
London - July 16, 2012 - Tribold, the world's leading provider of product
agility software for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), has been awarded
by the Microsoft I&GA organization as the Microsoft Alliance ISV Industry
Partner of the Year Award for the Communication & Media Sector.
Simon Muderack, CEO, Tribold, commented: "We are delighted to be recognized
with this prestigious partner award for the 2nd time in 3 years having also
won partner of the year in 2010. Tribold and Microsoft have had a
long-standing relationship which has allowed us to leverage their technology
in underlying platform, server, database and reporting products, and latterly
the Azure cloud, for our Tribold solutions. Together we enable CSPs to
accelerate speed to market for new offerings, improve offer conversion rates,
and improve efficiency in the fulfillment of orders."
Awards were ... (more)
New York, NY, July 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Oxagile joins the global Microsoft
Partner Network to deliver added value services to its customers. Oxagile
.Net department boasts to have one of the most solid knowledge bases and
time-tested skills in the company, and now proves its world-class .Net
development excellence by attaining the Microsoft Silver Web Development
Competency.
The status of a Microsoft Silver Partner gives Oxagile .Net developers access
to the best community resources and leading edge Microsoft development tools
to bring the best software solutions to its clients. Oxagile team will be
able to take advantage of the firsthand .Net knowledge and stay tuned with
the latest Microsoft product releases and updates; while company clients will
get knowledgeable advisory and consultancy services from Oxagile in-house
Microsoft certified sales professionals at ... (more)
Today Microsoft is unveiling a new global brand. The old
is history. Sure, you’ll see it around for quite awhile (like on my
formerly-official presenter shirts), but going forward, this is the new face
of Microsoft:
“Seriously? You’re changing the logo after all these years?”
Yessiree. And I agree that it’s time for the change. Microsoft is
entering a huge new time in its history. The new wave of releases and
product areas (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure, XBOX, Microsoft
Surface, etc.) really demands a shift in our identity; and the public face of
the company in the form of a logo is a big part of that.
Check out this slick video showing off today’s new branding of our product
lines..
For full details, check out THIS POST on “The Official Microsoft Blog”.
Now I gotta ask the boss if I can expense some new shirts…
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I like it, but what do you... (more)
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IoT & Smart Cities Stories By Yeshim Deniz  René Bostic is the Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America. Enjoying her career with IBM during the modern millennial technological era, she is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies such as Blockchain. Her strengths and core competencies include a proven record of accomplishments in consensus building at all levels to assess, plan, and implement enterprise and cloud computing solutions.
René is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and a m... May. 24, 2018 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,183 | By Yeshim Deniz  JETRO showcased Japan Digital Transformation Pavilion at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo® at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to companies expanding to Japan. With the support of JETRO's dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigration, and HR support; find dedicated office space; identify local government subsidies; get... May. 24, 2018 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,487 | By Yeshim Deniz  With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, @CloudEXPO and DXWorldEXPO are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, @CloudEXPO and DXWorldEXPO have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors!
In this blog post, we provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But before reading... May. 24, 2018 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,979 | By Pat Romanski  Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by... May. 24, 2018 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,941 | By Elizabeth White  "Avere Systems deals with data performance optimization in the cloud or on-premise. Even to this day many organizations struggle with what we call the problem of data gravity - 'Where should I put the data?' - because the data dictates ultimately where the jobs are going to run," explained Scott Jeschonek, Director Cloud Solutions at Avere Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. May. 24, 2018 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,700 | By Zakia Bouachraoui  If a machine can invent, does this mean the end of the patent system as we know it? The patent system, both in the US and Europe, allows companies to protect their inventions and helps foster innovation. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be set to disrupt the patent system as we know it. This talk will examine how AI may change the patent landscape in the years to come. Furthermore, ways in which companies can best protect their AI related inventions will be examined from both a US and... May. 24, 2018 11:45 AM EDT | By Yeshim Deniz  Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul... May. 24, 2018 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,024 | By Yeshim Deniz  DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology conferences and trade shows has announced the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO "Early Bird Registration" is now open. Register for Full Conference "Gold Pass" ▸ Here (Expo Hall ▸ Here) May. 24, 2018 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,402 | By Liz McMillan  CloudEXPO New York 2018, colocated with DXWorldEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City and will bring together Cloud Computing, FinTech and Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, AI, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location. May. 24, 2018 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,779 | By Yeshim Deniz  The best way to leverage your Cloud Expo presence as a sponsor and exhibitor is to plan your news announcements around our events. The press covering Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo will have access to these releases and will amplify your news announcements. More than two dozen Cloud companies either set deals at our shows or have announced their mergers and acquisitions at Cloud Expo. Product announcements during our show provide your company with the most reach through our targeted audiences. May. 24, 2018 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,684 |
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For years the world's most security-focused and distributed organizations - banks, military/defense agencies, global enterprises - have sought to adopt cloud technologies that can reduce costs, future-proof against data growth, and improve user productivity. The challenges of cloud transformation for these kinds of secure organizations have centered around data security, migration from legacy systems, and performance. In our presentation, we will discuss the notion that cloud computing, properly managed, is poised to bring about a digital transformation to enterprise IT. We will discuss the ...
My discussions with organizations looking to “digitally transform” themselves is yielding some interesting observations. I expect that when these discussions move into the execution phase, we will start to create some “Laws of Digital Transformation” that will guide organizations digital transformation journey. So with that in mind, let me start by proposing these “4 Laws of Digital Transformation.”
Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Alfresco, described how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability.
He addressed the challenges of scaling document repositories to this level; architectural approaches for coor...
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
As IoT continues to increase momentum, so does the associated risk. Secure Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) is ranked as one of the most important technology areas of IoT. Driving this trend is the realization that secure support for IoT devices provides companies the ability to deliver high-quality, reliable, secure offerings faster, create new revenue streams, and reduce support costs, all while building a competitive advantage in their markets. In this session, we will use customer use cases to demonstrate how DLM is can rescue devices in distress and equip companies with the tools necessa...
Machine learning has taken residence at our cities' cores and now we can finally have "smart cities." Cities are a collection of buildings made to provide the structure and safety necessary for people to function, create and survive. Buildings are a pool of ever-changing performance data from large automated systems such as heating and cooling to the people that live and work within them. Through machine learning, buildings can optimize performance, reduce costs, and improve occupant comfort by sharing information within the building and with outside city infrastructure via real time shared cl...
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