Enterprise Mobility – Lifeline for SMEs

Enterprise mobility has become one of the most prominent phenomenon that has the potential to change the dynamics of business operations of SMEs for the better. It has become crucial for any business to make sure apt data is available to customers, employees and stakeholders all the time.

“If you’re not mobile yet, you’re losing it.”

With enormous gush in use of smart phones it is vital for any SME to leverage the platform smartly and stay connected with customers, drive business analytics and make better informed decisions that was difficult earlier. Enterprise Mobility has evolved much faster and now it has become key for businesses to envision a Mobility strategy that is in-line with business strategy.

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Microsoft Azure

Feds Certify AWS and Microsoft Azure for the Most Sensitive Workloads

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has finally certified Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s respective public cloud services with the highest level of compliance clearance. CSRA, a provider that offers IT services specifically to government agencies, also reached the long-awaited FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) clearance.

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The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2016

At I/O this year, Google displayed its vision for a more ubiquitous and conversational way of interacting with technology. Its Assistant is chattier, answering natural language queries with a more human voice, and it’s found its way into several new Google products: the messenger Allo and the Echo-like speaker Home. Both are areas where other companies have a lead, but Google’s strength in AI gave these services some nice twists, doing things like automatically generating surprisingly specific reactions to photos.

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Update in Asp.Net

An Update on ASP.NET Core and .NET Core

Microsoft decided to rename ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0.  So ASP.NET 5 would be now ASP.NET Core 1.0, .NET Core 5 is now .NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 7 is now Entity Framework Core 1.0

Microsoft have been working towards “One ASP.NET” now for years and we’re there. ASP.NET Core is versioned as 1.0 as it’s a near complete rewrite of ASP.NET with many new features and capabilities.

ASP.NET Core 1.0 is not a continuation of ASP.NET 4.6. It is a whole new framework, a side-by-side project which happily lives alongside everything else we know. It is an actual re-write of the current ASP.NET 4.6 framework, but much smaller and a lot more modular.

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Hyperconverged

Gridstore Plots Expansion of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure has various meanings, depending on the supplier and IT professionals. For Gridstore, the company has decided to focus on offering hyperconverged infrastructure for Hyper-V-only environments. The company, which offers an appliance consisting of Intel-based multicore servers and scalable flash storage, last week said it has raised $19 million in equity finding from Acero Capital, GGV Capital and ONSET Ventures.

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Tech Wishlist 2016

Tech Wishlist 2016

This is CES week, when the consumer electronics industry, and some of the tech industry, descends on Las Vegas like digital locusts to show off new wares. I’ll be there again, as I have been for many, many years. And my Verge and Re/code colleagues will have great, wall-to-wall coverage.

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Office365 Planer Preview

Microsoft Office 365 Planner preview for Project Management

Microsoft has started rolling out its lightweight project management tools, Planner preview to Office 365 First Release customers, a new experience in Office 365 that offers a simple, visual way to organize teamwork. Although primarily designed for business use, Office 2016 users can also use Planner to plan vacations, creative projects and more

In addition to task management, Planner makes it easy groups share files, discuss workloads, your team to create plans, organize and assign work, and conduct chat sessions. Think of it as a virtual boardroom for team meetings

The Planner preview is available to First Release customers who have Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E4, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 Education, Office 365 Education E3, Office 365 Education E4, Office 365 Business Essentials and Office 365 Business Premium

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Microsoft 2015 Year

2015: The Year Microsoft Turned the Ship Around

As 2015 comes to a close, it’ll be remembered as a year full of surprises. Who thought back in April that the New York Mets would make the playoffs (along with the Chicago Cubs) and somehow make it to the World Series? While Microsoft was on pace to have a good year when 2014 was coming to a close, it was hard to imagine Redmond would gain such a high level of respect and dialog among so many longstanding critics.

If Goldman Sachs’ mea culpa last week wasn’t enough, when I picked up this week’s issue of Barron’s magazine, which is my Saturday morning ritual, I glanced at the cover and saw the headline, “The New Microsoft,” with Satya Nadella’s photo plastered on it. Usually when a company is featured on the cover of Barron’s, it’s because it has determined its stock is going to soar — or crater. In this case it was the former. Noting that since Nadella has taken over, Microsoft’s shares are up 48 percent — 67 percent if you go back to the day his predecessor Steve Ballmer announced he was “retiring,” it has emerged again as a growth company whose shares could jump another 30 percent. The article suggests, while Amazon’s AWS cloud business is Microsoft’s most significant competitor, the growth of Azure will give it a run for its money. At the same time, the author suggests Microsoft is a beneficiary of Amazon’s growth. In April, Amazon disclosed AWS’s revenues and profits for the first time, and its shares have since grown 70 percent.

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Microsoft Azure Apps

Microsoft Ending Two Azure Cache Services Next Year

Microsoft has gone all-in with its Azure Redis Cache service and plans to stop offering a couple of alternative cache services next year.

Microsoft will end its Azure In-Role Cache Service and its Azure Managed Cache Service on Nov. 30, 2016. Organizations should switch over to using Microsoft’s Azure Redis Cache service instead as it “provides more features and a better value overall,” according to Microsoft’s announcement late last week.

Redis is an open source NoSQL key-value database. Microsoft runs it as a service as part of its Azure cloud resources. The Microsoft Azure Redis Cache service is typically used by organizations with Web applications that need persistent data access for their operations, such as applications that perform financial transactions online.

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