Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week will announce plans to tap Microsoft Azure as a preferred public cloud provider, giving customers who were using its own Helion service a place to go when it shuts down Jan. 31.
CEO Meg Whitman revealed HPE will make Azure a preferred public cloud during the final earnings call for the company that was previously known as Hewlett Packard Co. for 86 years prior to splitting into two separate businesses (HP Inc. and HPE) Nov. 1.
The forthcoming revision of Google’s Android IDE includes several features to make app development faster.
At its Android Developer Summit on Monday, November 23, Google previewed Android Studio 2.0, the next version of its Android integrated development environment (IDE).
Google introduced Android Studio at Google I/O 2013 as an alternative to the open source Eclipse IDE. While Eclipse is still widely used and is suitable for a variety of programming languages, Android Studio offers developers a tool specifically tuned to Android development. For example, it includes a project automation tool called Gradle as an alternative to Apache Ant. Many developers have observed that this makes the application build process more efficient.
In most cases it’s relatively easy to get some sense how others are reacting or feeling in a live situation but online or via video conference, such subtleties are much more difficult to detect. Microsoft this week released the public beta of an API and tool that lets developers program the ability to detect emotions into their apps.
The new emotion API, debuted at Microsoft’s Future Decoded conference in London, was developed by the company’s Project Oxford team and demonstrated by Chris Bishop, head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, U.K., during his keynote address. Microsoft revealed Project Oxford at its Build conference back in April.
Hybrid computing skills should be a focus of IT pros maintaining SharePoint environments, given Microsoft’s current cloud emphasis.
That’s one of the ideas that emerged this week in a talk by Jason Himmelstein, an Office Services and Servers Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Todd Klindt, a SharePoint Microsoft MVP. They spoke on the topic, “SharePoint’s On-Prem Penalties: The Case for SharePoint Service in the Cloud.”
Microsoft this week rolled out new previews for organizations using its Azure Active Directory services.
The previews are notable for organizations trying to leverage Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory cloud-based authentication services with their on-premises Active Directory identity and access management infrastructures. To that end, Microsoft released a completely new offering, called “Azure AD Domain Services” on Wednesday. It also released previews of a few new Azure AD Application Proxy services.
Microsoft took a decidedly low-key approach to the release of Windows 10 back on July 29, largely because the devices optimized for the new operating system weren’t ready. But by making Windows 10 Pro available free of charge for users to upgrade on their existing systems, the company has given them a chance to see and interact with the new operating system.
Amid the slew of announcements at Tuesday’s AzureCon (a series of Channel 9 videos released by Microsoft outlining milestones and the future of the company’s enterprise cloud service), Microsoft revealed how its Azure Container Service will simplify the way organizations build, configure and manage clusters.
Specifically, Microsoft announced the Azure Container Service Resource Provider for the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and released a preview of its new Azure Quickstart Templates, which are available for download on GitHub.
Microsoft quietly delivered a media bombshell of sorts this week as it explained that its Azure Cloud Switch solution was built with Linux.
“The Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) is our foray into building our own software for running network devices like switches,” explained Kamala Subramaniam, a principal architect for Azure Networking, in a Thursday blog post. “It is a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux.”
