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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…

In an interview with TechWeekEurope, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explained why he is a keen believer in the power of machine learning and big data. He said, “Every vertical is going to be disrupted by machine learning and big data…Every one of these businesses…

Microsoft has switched on Data Auditing, a security-enhancing feature which provides administrators with more visibility into their cloud database operations. In the announcement on the Azure Blog Matt Usher, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft SQL Engineering, said “…You can now utilize database auditing with Azure SQL…

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities protect your data where it is stored, when it is moved, and when it is shared. This week Microsoft began rolling out DLP to SharePoint Online and is available in premier enterprise SKUs, making these critical Office 365 compliance/protection capabilities…

Microsoft has announced a new and expanded Azure Data Lake that makes big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible. Azure Data Lake makes it easy for developers, data scientists, and analysts to store data of any size, shape and speed, and do all…