Cloud

March 4, 2016 1 min read

Improving airports using open source tools on Microsoft Azure

One of the great understudied bottlenecks at airports is the time aircraft spend taxiing to and from the runway.

February 25, 2016 1 min read

Microsoft to acquire Xamarin, a leader in mobile app development

Yesterday, Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development.

February 24, 2016 7 min read

Becoming a Microsoft cloud partner: Part 1

Guest Author: Ryszard Dałkowski, Exertum Independent IT2B consultant, trainer, the “Old Sweat” of IT industry.

February 17, 2016 1 min read

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available in the Azure Marketplace

Starting today, customers can deploy on-demand Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances from the Azure Marketplace, where now more than 60% of the images are Linux-based.

February 10, 2016 1 min read

How to bring data to life with open source Power BI visuals

When it comes to visuals, Power BI is open BI! The built-in visuals for the Power BI platform are all open source — you can create your own visuals, as well as find an active community that creates and shares Power BI visuals.

January 30, 2016 1 min read

Making R the Enterprise Standard for Cross-Platform Analytics

Last year Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, an open source, statistical programming language that’s widely used for statistical computing and predictive analytics.

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January 28, 2016 3 min read

Garuda Indonesia: Web sales soar 200% with Microsoft Azure

In the airline business, security is paramount. In 2014, Garuda Indonesia (Garuda), the flag carrier of Indonesia, enhanced the security of its ticketing systems by redeploying its existing, open source e-commerce websites to the Microsoft cloud service, Azure.

January 23, 2016 1 min read

Shibboleth and OpenLDAP: Azure Resource Manager Quick Start Templates

It will now be much easier to find and try Shibboleth and OpenLDAP identity solutions on Azure! The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for Shibboleth and OpenLDAP have passed validation and have been merged into the centralized Azure repository for all ARM templates.