My Application Platform Quotes

Microsoft Business Intelligence Roadshow 2012

Η Microsoft Ελλάς έχει τη χαρά να σας προσκαλέσει στην ημερίδα: Microsoft Business Intelligence...

Author: Nikosan Date: 03/07/2012

Natural Interaction and Microsoft BI

Reposting from Pedram Rezaei’s blog: “Today, Microsoft released the official Kinect for Windows SDK....

Author: Nikosan Date: 02/02/2012

SQL Server Distributed Replay

Another interesting feature of SQL Server 2012; content from Technet: The Microsoft SQL Server...

Author: Nikosan Date: 01/30/2012

Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database: A Comparative Study on Total Cost of Administration (TCA)

A case study on the comparative costs of database administration for two of the premier enterprise...

Author: Nikosan Date: 01/30/2012

A Solution for Private Cloud Security Blueprint-Design Guide-Operations Guide

From Microsoft Technet, originally published in here Welcome to the "A Solution for Private...

Author: Nikosan Date: 01/23/2012

Microsoft Private Cloud and System Center 2012

I decided to make a small exception and post a few very interesting links on Microsoft’s new private...

Author: Nikosan Date: 01/18/2012

SQL Server and UTF-8 Encoding (1) -True or False

Since there is confusion on SQL Server’s support for UTF-8, Unicode data etc., I would like to share...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/29/2011

More demos of Power View available

From PejmanJ Microsoft post on Dec 27th, available at here Let’s walk through how to use the sample,...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/28/2011

Building Large Scale Elastic Database Tiers with SQL Azure: Introducing Federations

Copied from Windows Azure Blog; Post from CihanBiyikogluMS “One of the exciting new features in the...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/22/2011

On-premise storage sync with Windows Azure storage options

I went through the following offering from StorSimple that allows you to sync your on-premise data,...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/20/2011

Microsoft IT: How Does Microsoft Support Consumerization of IT from an Executive Perspective

Microsoft IT supports the Consumerization of IT efforts within the company while at the same time...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/19/2011

Viewing Microsoft BI reports and scorecards on Apple iPad devices

From TechNet, published on 13/12/2011 Cumulative Update 2011-12 (CU 2011-12) for Microsoft...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/18/2011

Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure

Microsoft patterns & practices (a part of EPX Developer Guidance) is excited to announce the...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/03/2011

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack

Covering the following areas: Microsoft® SQL Server Report Builder 3.0 for Microsoft® SQL Server...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/02/2011

Screencast: Your first steps to building a Private Cloud!

From Blain Barton blog: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/01/2011

What’s New in Master Data Services (MDS) in SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0)

From Microsoft Technet Wikis As of November, 2011, RC0 is the latest release of SQL Server “Denali,”...

Author: Nikosan Date: 12/01/2011

Windows Azure HPC Scheduler

(From Windows Azure team blog on MSDN): The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler includes modules and...

Author: Nikosan Date: 11/26/2011

SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Web Installer Preview

The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit includes technical content designed to help you learn how...

Author: Nikosan Date: 11/25/2011

Federation Metadata in SQL Azure Part 1 – Federations and Federation Members

From Cihan Biyikoglu - SQL Azure The entire blog post in this link

Author: Nikosan Date: 11/10/2011

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - October Update

Overview The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content...

Author: Nikosan Date: 11/10/2011

SQL Server 2008 R2 benchmarks

World record in TPC-E with SQL Server 2008 R2 and Fujitsu #1 TPC-H non-clustered 3 TB results #1...

Author: Nikosan Date: 11/03/2011

Microsoft Annual Digital Dialogue (ADD) 2011

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Author: Nikosan Date: 10/27/2011

Top 10 SQL 2012 “Denali” Enhancements for SharePoint

From Joel Oleson’s post at...

Author: Nikosan Date: 10/25/2011

SQL Server 2012 Announcement and Disclosures at PASS 2011

SQL Server announcements and disclosures are being revealed this week at The Professional...

Author: Nikosan Date: 10/20/2011

Announcing The New SQL Azure Data Sync CTP Release

Republished from Gregory Lake’s post on Windows Azure BLOG

Author: Nikosan Date: 10/20/2011

Πρόσκληση: Microsoft Annual Digital Dialogue 2011, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2011, Ι.Μ.Ε.

Η Microsoft σέβεται τα προσωπικά σας δεδομένα. Διαβάστε την ηλεκτρονική μας δήλωση προστασίας...

Author: Nikosan Date: 10/20/2011

SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Content Available

The Web Installer Preview for the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit has been published to the...

Author: Nikosan Date: 10/13/2011

SQL Sever Denali CTP3 demo vhd now available on MSDOWNLOADS

This is very interesting if you want to catch up with SQL Server ‘Denali’:...

Author: Nikosan Date: 09/09/2011

What should you know about the upcoming CTP of SQL Azure Reporting?

I received an email from Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting team about the upcoming CTP of SQL Azure...

Author: Nikosan Date: 09/09/2011

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training live on TechNet!

Reposted from Erika Ehrli - Adventures with Office Products & Technologies We’ve released a few...

Author: Nikosan Date: 09/09/2011

Training Courses for Implementing SharePoint Solutions

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training View the course:...

Author: Nikosan Date: 09/02/2011

Windows Azure Jump Start

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in...

Author: Nikosan Date: 06/10/2011

Microsoft and HP launch new DW and Database Consolidation solutions

HP and Microsoft Corp. announced on Monday June 6 the next wave of converged application appliances...

Author: Nikosan Date: 06/09/2011

SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide

SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide SQL Server White Paper Writers: Thomas Kejser,...

Author: Nikosan Date: 06/09/2011

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - May Update

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you...

Author: Nikosan Date: 06/09/2011

Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series

We are pleased to announce the Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series! In this learning series you...

Author: Nikosan Date: 05/16/2011

Separation of Duties for DBA customer ready white paper

SQL Server 2008 R2 provides the full breadth of tools to support restrictive compliance and security...

Author: Nikosan Date: 05/15/2011

SQL Server Overtakes IBM DB2 as no. 2 RDBMS customer ready deck

This is the customer ready deck from the original IDC excerpt https://idcdocserv.com/224350E

Author: Nikosan Date: 05/15/2011

Windows Azure Migration Scanner

I heard about this tool during a meeting and thought of sharing more information with you: “Windows...