Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/29/2008
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/22/2008
Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2008
Understanding and applying the principles of memory management is key to building high-performing managed applications.
- By Peter Varhol
- 09/15/2008
Embarcadero Technologies releases Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009, updated versions of dev tools acquired in its purchase of CodeGear.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008
Microsoft’s UrlScan 3.0 is an improved security filter for Internet Information Services Web server designed to prevent SQL-injection attacks.
Data storage in the cloud.
- By Roger Jennings
- 09/15/2008
The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released this week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/12/2008
Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Sybase announces plans to unveil an upgrade to its PowerBuilder toolset at its TechWave User Training and Solutions Conference.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Microsoft releases new database server, adding support for policy management, encryption and new data types.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2008
Learn to access enterprise data stored in Oracle database servers by calling PL/SQL stored procedures from ADO.NET client applications and discover implementation strategies for dealing with common business scenarios.
- By John Charles Olamendy Turruellas
- 09/01/2008
Features a smooth upgrade from SQL Server 2005 and developer perks such as T-SQL and encryption.
- By Joshua Jones
- 09/01/2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- 08/28/2008