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At the Ignite conference in May, Microsoft announced its Operations Management Suite (OMS). This new add-on for System Center allows organisations to manage workloads across on-premises servers and the cloud. Its release yesterday brings IT monitoring, automation and data protection capabilities to System Center. Guru…

According to techradar.com, “the cloud is key to on-premises SQL Server 2016”. One of the most obviously cloud-based features is the option to ‘stretch’ a database to Azure by automatically archiving old data. Read the article in full here.

Microsoft revealed today at the Ignite conference in Chicago, USA, its plans to deliver a public beta of SharePoint Server 2016 in the last quarter of this year. The product is planned for general availability release in Q2 2016, but a release candidate version will…

A major win for Ballard Chalmers in Q1 was our assignment as a direct supplier to Transport for London (TfL), gained through our effective long-term provision of highly skilled software engineers for TfL development projects. In addition, we welcomed two new customers— recruitment agency Reliance…

Six months after launching contactless payments for travel in the capital, Transport for London (TfL) has been announced as the fastest growing contactless Visa merchant in Europe, and for Mastercard and American Express in the UK. Since September 2014, TfL says 60 million contactless journeys…

Ford is implementing Microsoft Azure to automatically update its cars’ infotainment systems via wifi. Until now, Ford’s infotainment system would be updated when the vehicle was brought into a dealership or with the use of a USB stick. With the Azure cloud system, vehicle navigation,…

Microsoft Ignite is set to take place in Chicago, USA between May 4th and 8th 2015 and it is here that SharePoint Server 2016 will be publicly debuted. In this blog post the SharePoint team says, “At Ignite, we’ll publicly demo SharePoint Server 2016 for…

2014 did a lot to raise public awareness of cloud technologies, but not always for the right reasons. In an article published in today’s The Telegraph Jason Zander, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, discusses security in the cloud. Read the article here.