Microsoft's forthcoming SQL Server 2016 adds better encryption, support for unstructured data queries including those on Apache Hadoop, and new features to enable the hybrid cloud. The updates are part of an overhaul that updates Microsoft's flagship database management platform for a new age.
Companies are under tremendous pressure to reduce IT costs. Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) offer significant potential cost reductions through the use of shared infrastructure and standardized software offerings. However, there are often significant concerns if the service or application stores or processes Personally Identifiable Information, important intellectual property, other sensitive information, the criticality of the system, or whether the solution opens avenues into a company’s core systems.
The upshot is teams can use SAP tools to complete a range of common tasks -- book travel, automatically extract receipts from e-mails, recruit job candidates -- without leaving familiar Microsoft environments.
It is tempting, sometimes, to point at all the new words we acquire, year after year, as a measure of how fast the world is changing. There is a fleeting shock to be had in the recollection that humans of the very near past made do without reference to “sexts” or “paywalls.” But what can we learn from the old words that get remade before our very eyes, the new possibilities that gather around “leak” or “virus,” or the new wariness that accompanies once-innocuous words like “disruption” and “content”?
Microsoft today announced several security-oriented improvements for Azure SQL Database, a managed relational database available on the Azure public cloud. By the end of October, Microsoft will start public previews of a feature for Always Encrypted, which provides encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use for its Azure SQL Database service. Always […]
Microsoft today announced several security-oriented improvements for Azure SQL Database, a managed relational database available on the Azure public cloud. By the end of October, Microsoft will start public previews of a feature for Always Encrypted, which provides encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use for its Azure SQL Database service. Always […]
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451 Research: Cloud Costs Fall Across The Board If you have a keen interest in cloud development, new cloud products/services, public/private cloud pricing and cloud computing market competition, then “451 Research’s latest updates on Cloud Price Index” might interest you. The research states that the basic cost of renting cloud services — from one of […]
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Axcient will pay partners up front for new and renewing contracts for its disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering, gambling that customers will stay with the service for the five years it could take for the company to break even on those contracts.
Axcient will pay partners up front for new and renewing contracts for its disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering, gambling that customers will stay with the service for the five years it could take for the company to break even on those contracts.
