Australian-based integration company, Breeze, has formed an alliance with European and US-based integrators, Codit and Matricis Computing, to offer customers knowledge, innovation, and services from Microsoft-qualified integration specialists.
<b>This is a story about Davids and Goliaths. The Davids are Australian ISVs who have big ambitions and the nerve and ability to take on the Goliaths – the big name IT companies around the world. ARN finds out why and how.</b>
Software giant, Microsoft, has commercially launched its Windows Intune cloud service, specifically catering for the SMB space.
Systems intelligence software developer, East River Software, is on the hunt for partners.
When Microsoft all but demands its partners ‘cloud up,’ and Japanese telecommunications provider, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group (NTT Group), makes a $US3.2 billion acquisition on the premise of developing its cloud capabilities, it is obvious that there is an incredible buzz about the cloud. But is it realistic? And what about the lingering concerns that Australia is not quite ready to live up to the hyperbole?
ARN's Matthew Sainsbury is in Washington, courtesy of Microsoft, for the company's World Partner Conference 2010. His reports plus those for IDG's American staff and slideshows are all part of this ARN special coverage of the conference.
Infor on Monday will announce plans for applications running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, deepening the vendors' already close partnership and adding momentum to the industry's shift away from on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.
On Monday, during the kickoff of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference being held this week in Washington D.C., Microsoft <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071210-microsoft-releases-azure-cloud-platform.html">announced</a> that it would be releasing a version of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform that can be run as part of an appliance offering.
Microsoft began offering on Monday guidance intended to help developers make secure applications for the company's Windows Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason -- it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs, business division head Stephen Elop said at the Convergence conference in Atlanta on Sunday.
Microsoft is betting the cloud will deliver it and its customers the most opportunities for innovation and development. And according to CEO Steve Ballmer, five key reasons are driving the company's confidence in - and technology strategy for - cloud computing in the coming years.
With Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform set to go live on New Year's Day, the company is looking ahead to later in 2010 when it will unveil a new security structure for multi-tenant cloud environments as well as private cloud software based on the same technology used to build Azure.
Unifying Windows Azure with its on-premises counterpart Windows Server should hasten the rollout of new features in Microsoft Corp.'s enterprise cloud platform, but it also will pit Azure against Microsoft's other cloud services for the loyalty of a key customer base, says one independent Microsoft analyst.
VeriSign has been chosen to provide cloud-based security and authentication for the Windows Azure platform.
Microsoft has created a new division designed to bring its cloud and on-premises software development together and provide a consistent platform for corporate customers.
