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Microsoft Case Study: Windows Azure – Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is one of the largest defence contractors in the world, employing some 136,000 people, and also delivers IT solutions for government, healthcare and energy markets. The company uses Windows Azure to move
Read More »Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco battle for cloud email business
Google and Microsoft are ahead in the race to have the biggest number of customers for cloud email business. Coming out of nowhere in 2007, Google is now a major threat to all the
Read More »eBay and Microsoft Announce Cloud Computing Agreement
eBay have announced that they will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. Read more at eBayInk
Read More »Sugar 6 Available on Microsoft Windows Azure Platform
SugarCRM is the major open source customer relationship management (CRM) platform; following the release of version 6, it is also certified for deployment on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. Interestingly SugarCRM competes directly with
Read More »Office Web Apps
Microsoft’s free online version of its Office suite, Office Web Apps, is now available to users in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. It needs a Windows Live ID to sign in
Read More »Bob Muglia on Google, Azure, and the future of Windows Server
In an interview, the president of Microsoft’s server and tools business talked about the shifts to the cloud, Google’s role in the enterprise and the future of Microsoft’s server products, including the next version
Read More »Single sign-on to Amazon EC2-based .Net applications from an on-premises Windows domain guide released
An Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corporation sponsored step by step guide demonstrating identity federation between an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory domain and an ASP.NET web application hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud
Read More »Windows Server Pilot Available in Amazon Cloud
Is the announcement by the Amazon EC2 Cloud Service of the immediate availability of the Microsoft Windows Server® License Mobility Pilot evidence that there is an increasing amount of flexibility in licensing terms in
Read More »Microsoft Office 2010 will be Available in the Cloud
Microsoft is planning to release the next version of its Office suite, 2010, as a cloud-based instance for the first time. This will include the option of an on-line subscription service as well as traditional purchasing of
Read More »Microsoft’s Azure cloud is officially open for business
Whilst lagging behind Google in delivering its cloud offering, Microsoft can never be discounted. Read more on ZDNet
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