Lots of Microsoft Azure news and notes to relay this time around. First off, Microsoft has released in “limited preview” a new cloud service called Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service, which will “allow users to capture and manage machine-generated data from sensors and devices,” according...
Read MoreAs more and more software product companies are looking to migrate their traditional on-premise software to a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering they are discovering it takes longer than first expected and comes with many challenges. Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a great way...
Read MoreAs more and more software product companies are looking to migrate their traditional on-premise software to a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering they are discovering it takes longer than first expected and comes with many challenges. Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a great way...
Read MoreWhen considering a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution versus a traditional on-premise software application, one needs to keep in mind several factors when calculating total cost of ownership and ROI. These variables come into play when determining the real bottom line, as in most cases initial out-of-pocket...
Read MoreMicrosoft last week took the seemingly small step of renaming Windows Azure – its core cloud platform – to Microsoft Azure. As Microsoft’s Steve Martin notes in his blog, the name change is really about the next milestone in Microsoft’s effort to place the cloud...
Read MoreBaltimore Business Journal’s New List of Largest Software Development Companies Ranks Motifworks at 19th Largest Towson, MD March 10, 2014 Motifworks, a technology services firm that partners with companies to accelerate their product development focusing on cloud and mobil, has been designated one of the Baltimore region’s...
Read MoreDon’t expect Microsoft to slow down its product development or take any kind of pause while the company transitions in its new CEO, Satya Nadella. The Microsoft machine is humming. Consider Scott Guthrie’s announcement this week of “a massive amount of enhancements to Windows Azure”...
Read MoreIt’s been said that in regards to the question of which mobile platform is the best to target for development, the answer is to develop for the mobile web. HTML5 has indeed moved to the forefront of mobile development alongside iOS and Android in terms...
Read MoreWith the ascension of Satya Nadella to the position of Microsoft CEO, enterprise users can expect a further shift in the company’s overall business strategy to a cloud-centric model—the focus being Windows Azure as the primary delivery platform for its fleet of software products and...
Read MoreMicrosoft this month announced two new developments in regard to ensuring users can build “secure and compliant applications” on Windows Azure, according to Microsoft’s Steven Martin. In his latest blog post, Martin says Windows Azure is now in compliance with the “Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data...
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