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Microsoft Office users have a new way to use the productivity suite in the cloud. Starting today, Microsoft Office 2016 is available as a cloud application from the nGenx Cloud Application Catalog. Purchasers can choose Microsoft Office 2016 as a stand-alone solution …
Toyota, Microsoft partner to develop car-connected technologies
Toyota Motor Corp. announced it is partnering with Microsoft to create a subsidiary, Toyota Connected Inc. The new company will serve as a data science hub for Toyota’s global operations, and it will support a range of consumer-, business- and government-facing initiatives. …
Security, compliance the biggest barriers to cloud adoption
Data security remains a high concern among IT professionals. In fact, it’s the main barrier for adopting cloud services, according to a recent study by Evolve IP LLC. According to Evolve IP’s Adoption of Cloud Services North America report, 55 percent of …
Survey finds IBM is top cloud application transformation vendor
Migrating existing applications to the cloud can be complicated and cause unease. Will data be lost during the transition? Will employees need to be trained on new systems? Will processes change? It makes sense, then, that companies turn to cloud providers that …
IBM Bluemix Garage Method helps organizations develop cloud apps faster
To help organizations quickly develop cloud applications, IBM today released the Bluemix Garage Method, an online resource that provides best practices and tool chains for cloud application development. Bluemix Garage Method is “a form of digital enablement,” said Rachel Reinitz, distinguished engineer …
Platfora puts big data discovery in business users’ hands
Business users looking to access and analyze big data have a new option: Platfora 5.2. Announced yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, Platfora 5.2 enables “citizen data scientists” to do their own data preparation, visual analysis and behavioral analytics using any business …
Developers take charge, bring containers and microservices into the mainstream
The drive for innovative, modern applications has changed the state of application development and deployment. Relatively new technologies have become mainstream, and developers are leading the charge when it comes implementing them in companies. According to a study by NGINX Inc. on …
Vera helps developers build data security into any application
Encryption is the name of the game when it comes to securing data at rest, in transit and in use. The problem is enterprises often have trouble integrating encryption into their applications. Vera hopes to remove that barrier with its new data …
5 ways to improve cloud application performance
Application performance is always a concern. Is the code written well? Is the database optimized? Can the application handle load spikes? When the application is on a public cloud platform, however, developers have unique challenges. The biggest being the infrastructure the application …
HPE and Microsoft invest in cloud computing startup Mesosphere
Cloud computing startup Mesosphere Inc. got the support of two tech giants today: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft. The company closed $73.5 million in a Series C funding round led by HPE, with Microsoft joining as a new strategic investor. The …