Microsoft tunes Windows Azure cloud for developers

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	Microsoft tunes Windows Azure cloud for developers Microsoft continues to position its Windows Azure cloud platform as a place for software developers, adding services on Thursday for mobile and Web development. At its Build 2013 developer conference in San Francisco, the company announced general availability of Windows Azure Mobile Services, for creating mobile back-end application capabilities, and Windows Azure Web Sites, for building and managing "business-grade" Web applications. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Powerful and secure remote support with LogMeIn Rescue For companies that want to compete in their industry, improving the customer experience is a top priority. To do that, having an on-demand remote support solution is essential. That's why companies around the world choose LogMeIn Rescue to provide powerful, secure support of any device, anytime, anywhere. Rescue offers a simple, reliable interface packed with all the features technicians want. Check out LogMeIn Rescue to learn more and start your free trial today. In this Issue Internet of things makes strange bedfellows of Oracle and Salesforce Mixed messages, contradictory claims trip up Gartner, Cisco, and Apple BlackBerry suffers $84M loss on disappointing Q1 smartphone sales IBM layoffs pass 3,000, says labor group Teradata expands Hadoop support with bundled appliances WHITE PAPER: Symantec Your Checklist for Patch Management With the continuing proliferation of software and devices in the modern enterprise, manual patch management simply can't keep up. Managing Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday updates represents just the tip of the iceberg. Read Now! Internet of things makes strange bedfellows of Oracle and Salesforce The Internet of things represents that next major wave for computing, replacing the server-client model with a cloud-based infrastructure that pulls data from far-flung sources -- from RFID sensors and wearables to social networking feeds to back-end ERP and CRM data troves -- and seamlessly transforms and delivers that data to any and all computing devices as useful information. Companies that aren't poised to ride this wave will find themselves left adrift. Read More Mixed messages, contradictory claims trip up Gartner, Cisco, and Apple Reversals of fortune were on the menu this week in the tech industry, starting off with a Gartner analyst who predicted Apple OSes were set to overtake Microsoft. According to Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, Microsoft's lead in sales of products running Windows -- Windows devices handily outnumbered those running Mac OS and iOS last year -- would evaporate by 2015. But not so fast -- Gartner soon recanted, saying the prediction was based partly on incorrect data. Read More BlackBerry suffers $84M loss on disappointing Q1 smartphone sales BlackBerry shipped 6.8 million smartphones and recorded a $84 million loss during the three months to June 1, as it struggles to turn around its fortunes. The first of BlackBerry's fiscal year was the first true referendum on how the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones have been received by consumers and business users -- although the company didn't break out sales figures for those phones. Read More IBM layoffs pass 3,000, says labor group IBM's latest round of job cuts, a series of layoff actions that began over a week ago, has passed the 3,000 mark. That's according to the Alliance@IBM, which has been working to organize IBM employees for years. Read More Teradata expands Hadoop support with bundled appliances Teradata's enterprise customers have a fresh set of options for integrating Hadoop into their environments. The company this week rolled out a new "Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop," featuring a set of products, consulting services, training and support options for customers seeking to harness Hadoop for big data applications. Read More
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