Microsoft offers businesses a 'premium' network link to Office 365

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	Microsoft offers businesses a 'premium' network link to Office 365 For companies using Office 365, Microsoft has now rolled out a premium service called Azure ExpressRoute, which allows them connect to Office 365 services via a private, managed wide area network. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudBasic Geo-Replication for RDS/SQL Server to or across AWS regions Achieve database redundancy across or within AWS regions, or migrate from your data center to AWS, with asynchronous RDS/SQL server replication. Create secondary standby databases for Disaster Recovery, or Read Replicas to balance read loads for Reporting, Business Intelligence, and Big Data analytics. CloudBasic Geo-Replicate is a scalable and secure plug-and-play SQL Server replication solution. Launch it from AWS Marketplace, configure database source and destination, and start replicating. Start Risk-Free In this Issue IBM-Box enterprise deal yields new content tools OneDrive for Business gets new tools to compete in crowded cloud storage market IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads One area where Microsoft beats Amazon in the cloud Many SAP users are still skeptical about S/4Hana and cloud ERP Microsoft reshuffles into 3 businesses for financial reporting Cloud-based 'digital twins' could make power plants more efficient Microsoft pumps up Azure ahead of Amazon's big cloud conference SDN start-up PLUMgrid opens up on OpenStack Microsoft bolsters Azure in containers, security WHITE PAPER: Windstream Communications The Path to Value in the Cloud The Path to Value in the Cloud, by Oxford Economics and Windstream, brings together the latest insights, tactics and strategies C-suite respondents are using to make the cloud work for them. Learn More IBM-Box enterprise deal yields new content tools IBM and Box have started to deliver on a partnership they announced in June to help enterprises users share content and collaborate. The companies want to combine IBM's back-end smarts with Box's user experience in new tools for both local and cloud data. The ultimate aim is to help usher enterprises into the cloud era of content management. Read More OneDrive for Business gets new tools to compete in crowded cloud storage market September has been the month for companies to announce updates to their cloud storage products in order to draw business away from the competition. Microsoft is no different in that regard, announcing a set of updates to its OneDrive for Business product that should make it a more appealing option for companies looking to store files in the cloud. Read More IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads IBM's Bluemix development platform is already available in public and hosted private cloud versions. On Thursday, the company announced a third option for customers that need to build apps behind a firewall. Read More WHITE PAPER: Windstream Communications The Path to Value in the Cloud The Path to Value in the Cloud, by Oxford Economics and Windstream, brings together the latest insights, tactics and strategies C-suite respondents are using to make the cloud work for them. Learn More One area where Microsoft beats Amazon in the cloud Competition between Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services for supremacy in the IaaS public cloud is as high as it's been, as evidenced by yesterday's announcements by Microsoft of various new features. Read More Many SAP users are still skeptical about S/4Hana and cloud ERP SAP placed a big bet on S/4Hana when it launched the new enterprise suite earlier this year, but users aren't so sure it's the technology they're looking for. Read More Microsoft reshuffles into 3 businesses for financial reporting Microsoft changed how it will report its financial performance, reducing the number of operating divisions to three, in an effort to align with CEO Satya Nadella's emphasis on the cloud and productivity platforms, and opportunities to reap revenue from customers after they've moved to Windows 10. Read More WHITE PAPER: Windstream Communications The Rising Popularity of Unified Communications in the Cloud Discover top trends and best practices for moving UC to the cloud in this Nemertes Report. Learn More Cloud-based 'digital twins' could make power plants more efficient Electricity may be the lifeblood of the IT, but the industry that produces it has been slow to take advantage of computing advances. That may be changing, with a cool new tool from GE that could help keep power plants running. Read More Microsoft pumps up Azure ahead of Amazon's big cloud conference Never before has the competition in the IaaS public cloud market been as ripe as it is now between Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.re Read More SDN start-up PLUMgrid opens up on OpenStack SDN start-up PLUMgrid this week unveiled the latest version of its software for building OpenStack clouds. Read More Microsoft bolsters Azure in containers, security Microsoft is enhancing its Azure cloud platform with a new container service and a new security center. The Azure Container Service, which will be available for preview by the end of the year, is an open source container scheduling and orchestration service that builds on Microsoft's partnerships with both Docker and Mesosphere. Read More
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