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Fusion-io Flash Pushes SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Further
There is no such thing as too much performance improvement. Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 relational database is shipping, and enterprises are now trying to figure out how to best ...Full Article
Violin Scales Back Windows Flash Array – For Now
Violin Memory was the first of the new breed of flash array companies to go public and the company is trying to stay ahead of the pack by more ...Full Article
Equinix Helps Microsoft Roll Out Azure ExpressRoute Globally
Microsoft is partnering with datacenter colocation service provider Equinix to deliver its Windows Azure ExpressRoute private network connection service to international customers. Equinix said Azure ExpressRoute would be provided ...Full Article
Microsoft Targets VMware Customers With Converter Tool
Microsoft has rolled a new version of its Virtual Machine Converter tool aimed squarely at poaching customers from X86 server virtualization leader VMware. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 is ...Full Article
Red Hat Joins The Crowd On Google Cloud
The cloud is making for strange bedfellows, which may turn out to be another of its attributes as prices decline. Case in point: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ...Full Article
Federated Cloud Services Offer Response To Commodity Pricing
As cloud services rapidly become a commodity, smaller local service providers are feeling the heat as market leaders Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft engage in a price war ...Full Article
Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
We can't do much without power, and cloud computing services are using a growing share of the world's electrical power. That trend is expected to accelerate as emerging markets ...Full Article
Microsoft Turbocharges Transactions With ‘Hekaton’ In-Memory
Microsoft is joining the in-memory database party with the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2014 and its "Hekaton" feature. The new SQL engine has been optimized for in-memory ...Full Article
New CEO Nadella Reshuffles Microsoft’s Exec Deck
Microsoft's new chief Satya Nadella finished up his first month as the head of the software giant with some internal restructuring. Two of the company's top executives, Tony Bates ...Full Article
Financial Firms Ask Red Hat To Bring .NET To OpenShift Cloud
Red Hat is going to be bringing application runtime and database servers of Windows platforms to its OpenShift platform cloud, and some big financial services companies are, as it ...Full Article
