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A survey commissioned by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has found that over four in five UK organisations have formally adopted at least one cloud service. Information published on cloudindustryforum.org says,”Cloud is certainly helping organisations meet their business objectives, with a significant proportion of Cloud…

According to this article published by Microsoft, 39 per cent of IT organisations now report to the CFO. The article finds that a key reason for this is the wealth of information that big data and analytics provide: “[The] shifting role of the CFO isn’t…

In his keynote at the Future Decoded 2015 event on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced plans to offer commercial cloud services from the UK. Microsoft Azure and Office 365 will be generally available from locally based data centres in late 2016, offering customers data…

Microsoft has announced the preview of elastic database transactions in Azure SQL Database. In the Microsoft Azure Blog, Torsten Grabs, Principal Program Manager Lead for Azure SQL Database says, “Distributed transactions have consistently ranked among the most requested features for SQL Database. You can now…

Microsoft has announced that the first public preview of SQL Server 2016 is now available for download. The release is a milestone for SQL Server with real-time operational analytics, rich visualisations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, new advanced security technology, and new hybrid cloud…

Mark Kashman, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, recently delivered a keynote talk at the SPTechCon Boston 2015 where he spoke about SharePoint’s renewed focus on productivity. Highlights from the talk include the new innovations across SharePoint and Office 365, spanning the cloud, on-premises and hybrid.…

Recent new client project starts includes the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) who selected Ballard Chalmers to manage and enhance its public facing SharePoint Server website. No stranger to the charity realm, we are building a new and improved farm of servers to host the…

Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has released a report today positioning Microsoft as a leader, for the third year in a row, in the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Microsoft was placed furthest to the right on the…