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Management Tools Bring Structure to Multi-Cloud Environments

Posted on October 20, 2017 by John Davis

New tools help enterprises organize and maximize their expanding multiple cloud infrastructure. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Microsoft consolidates its mobile management tools under Azure

Posted on July 1, 2017 by John Davis

Microsoft has consolidated its Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite of products under its Azure portal, combining its Intune mobile application management tools and its Azure Active Directory (AD) and Information Protection under a single console. The move offers a … Continue reading →

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Automated Tools Ease Cloud Migration

Posted on June 27, 2017 by John Davis

With new tools appearing, automation and orchestration are having a major impact on easing the burden of moving to the cloud. InformationWeek: Cloud

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IBM adds API tools to Bluemix serverless framework

Posted on April 28, 2017 by John Davis

Nearly every major cloud now offers a serverless computing option: AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk, to name a few. APIs are a common use case for serverless, but few people want to build APIs … Continue reading →

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Heroku: PaaS is future of development tools

Posted on February 15, 2017 by John Davis

The mantra that all companies need to become software companies is starting to sound familiar. PaaS clouds are the key to making this happen, by providing the means to get customer-facing applications up and running quickly, Heroku CEO Adam Gross … Continue reading →

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Google upgrades G Suite with tools for IT pros

Posted on February 1, 2017 by John Davis

Google today bolstered its G Suite of productivity apps with new controls and tools for IT professionals. G Suite administrators now have more access to control security key enforcement, data control with data loss prevention (DLP) for Google Drive and … Continue reading →

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Cloud monitoring: Users review 5 top tools

Posted on January 30, 2017 by John Davis

Cloud technology is becoming a staple in the enterprise—70 percent have at least one application in the cloud—and may become the default option for software deployment by 2020. That makes it even more important that systems administrators can monitor, manage, … Continue reading →

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Cloud monitoring: Users review 5 top tools

Posted on January 23, 2017 by John Davis

Cloud technology is becoming a “staple” in the enterprise — 70% have at least one application in the cloud – and may become the “default option” for software deployment by 2020. That makes it even more important that systems administrators … Continue reading →

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A.I. tools came out of the lab in 2016

Posted on December 25, 2016 by John Davis

You shouldn’t anthropomorphize computers: They don’t like it. That joke is at least as old as Deep Blue’s 1997 victory over then world chess champion Garry Kasparov, but even with the great strides made in the field of artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

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Salesforce debuts chatbot building tools

Posted on October 9, 2016 by John Davis

Companies have another set of tools at their disposal to build chatbots. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has begun touting a new LiveMessage service that’s aimed at connecting his company’s Service Cloud with messaging services like Facebook Messenger and SMS.   … Continue reading →

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Salesforce debuts chatbot building tools

Posted on October 7, 2016 by John Davis

Companies have another set of tools at their disposal to build chatbots. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has begun touting a new LiveMessage service that’s aimed at connecting his company’s Service Cloud with messaging services like Facebook Messenger and SMS.   … Continue reading →

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Box’s developer platform revamped with new content types, UI tools

Posted on September 9, 2016 by John Davis

While Box is probably best known for its user-facing storage and content services, the company is also operating a separate platform for developers, and it received a handful of updates Thursday. The platform, which lets developers integrate Box’s tools for … Continue reading →

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Google gets API management tools in Apigee deal

Posted on September 8, 2016 by John Davis

Google plans to acquire API management vendor Apigee in a US$ 625 million deal that will give the search giant secure and multilanguage API tools used by companies bringing more and more of their services online. The deal, announced Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Simple Networking Tools Ease IT Pains

Posted on August 27, 2016 by John Davis

Forget the bells and whistles of powerful networking tools. When overseeing clients’ networks, some IT pros insist that simpler is better. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Simple Networking Tools Ease IT Pains

Posted on August 27, 2016 by John Davis

Forget the bells and whistles of powerful networking tools. When overseeing clients’ networks, some IT pros insist that simpler is better. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Simple Networking Tools Ease IT Pains

Posted on August 25, 2016 by John Davis

Forget the bells and whistles of powerful networking tools. When overseeing clients’ networks, some IT pros insist that simpler is better. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Dropbox enhances its productivity tools across the board

Posted on June 22, 2016 by John Davis

Dropbox just dumped a ton of new productivity features on users of its file storage and collaboration service that are all aimed at making it easier for people to get work done within its applications.  Updates to the Dropbox app … Continue reading →

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Microsoft strengthens security tools for Azure, Office 365

Posted on February 28, 2016 by John Davis

Microsoft has enhanced the holistic agile security platform it touted last November with integrated insights obtained from the company’s intelligent security graph and tighter collaboration with industry partners. The changes highlight Microsoft’s current approach to enterprise security, which focuses on … Continue reading →

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Microsoft strengthens security tools for Azure, Office 365

Posted on February 26, 2016 by John Davis

Microsoft has enhanced the holistic agile security platform it touted last November with integrated insights obtained from the company’s intelligent security graph and tighter collaboration with industry partners. The changes highlight Microsoft’s current approach to enterprise security, which focuses on … Continue reading →

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VMware’s new management tools are hybrid, hybrid, hybrid

Posted on February 15, 2016 by John Davis

VMware has been on a news blitz this week, announcing updates to many of its management products and one specific focus has been on enabling hybrid cloud computing. The company has a stronghold in its compute virtualization software based on … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Azure Stack beta gets new services and DevOps tools

Posted on February 9, 2016 by John Davis

People testing out the public beta of Microsoft’s Azure Stack private cloud system have some new platform services and DevOps tools to play with less than two weeks after it initially launched.  Starting Monday, users can download a beta version … Continue reading →

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Why Microsoft’s data chief thinks current machine learning tools are like tailored shirts

Posted on November 19, 2015 by John Davis

When Microsoft’s data chief thinks about the future, he sees a world where developers create applications that leverage machine learning and predictive analytics without needing the help of a data scientist. Joseph Sirosh, the corporate vice president in charge of … Continue reading →

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Facebook search tools take aim at Twitter’s relationship with news

Posted on November 3, 2015 by John Davis

Facebook is updating its search tool to make it easier for users to find things that interest them among the 2 trillion items archived by the company’s index. The update boasts personalized search suggestions, the ability to search through public posts in … Continue reading →

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Oracle Hadoop Based Analytical Tools to Explore the Spatial Big Data Processing

Posted on October 7, 2015 by John Davis

The elephant of Apache Hadoop is increasingly acclaimed by thousands of developers and companies around the world. As big data and the demands of real-time analytics increase globally, the emergence of Hadoop has created new oceans to explore data. Now, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft streamlines hybrid cloud operations with new tools

Posted on July 1, 2015 by John Davis

Workloads moved to the cloud must be managed properly, so Microsoft has released new tools to help system administrators bridge their in-house data centers with Azure services. The company released an add-on for managing cloud workloads within the company’s System … Continue reading →

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BrandPost: How Collaboration Tools Can Turn Your Business Into A Social Enterprise

Posted on June 21, 2015 by John Davis

Social networks for business help enterprises collaborate securely across departments, offices and countries. Many available tools give employees a sense of online community and help forge connections between different parts of the business and your customers. However, some business leaders … Continue reading →

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IP Expo: Google claims cloud computing tools central to business innovation

Posted on October 18, 2012 by John Davis

IP Expo: Google claims cloud computing tools central to business innovation LONDON: Google has heralded the impact of cloud computing services for creating a new era of innovation within businesses by letting firms "play" with fast, flexible systems at a … Continue reading →

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