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According to research company Gartner, the market for enterprise application software, led by SaaS, will increase by 7.5% in 2015 to $149.9 billion worldwide and will further increase to more than $201 billion in 2019. Bianca Granetto, research director at Gartner said, “The majority of…

Microsoft has released the SharePoint 2016 IT Preview, which can be downloaded here. Of the release, Microsoft says, “SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview has been designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy at its core. Drawing extensively from that…

Today Microsoft announced that Row-Level Security (RLS) for SQL Database is now generally available. In the Microsoft Azure Blog Tommy Mullaney, Program Manager for Azure SQL Database says, “RLS enables you to store data for many users in a single database and table, while at…

SharePoint 2016 is planned for general availability release in Q2 2016. According to an article on infoworld.com, SharePoint 2016 will increasingly rely on, or encourage the use of, cloud services. It states, “Although Microsoft has yet to release a beta version (one is expected by…

A recent article by Michael Otey on SQL Server Pro answers some of the most frequently asked questions about SQL Server 2014, including “Does the SQL Server 2014 Standard edition offer more memory than the previous versions?” and “Are AlwaysOn Availability Groups supported in the…

We recently completed Phase I of work on an Incident Reporting System for our new client Young Epilepsy, a national charity working exclusively on behalf of the 112,000 children and young people aged 25 and under with epilepsy and associated conditions. The aim of Young…

CRN is reporting that Microsoft is spending more than $10 billion per year building Azure data centers to support its cloud and Azure businesses. In his keynote address at the CloudScape Conference 2015, Microsoft General Manager George Taylor said that they are now spending more…