“Harness the power of open source in the public cloud” is a free webinar on demand presented by Jose Miguel Parrella, Open Source Product Manager from Microsoft. In this webinar, you will learn how organizations around the globe are harnessing the power of open source in Azure. From compute fabric with Linux, to a rich Read more
Earlier this week, Forrester recognized Microsoft Azure as a leader in their “Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions” report. Apache Hadoop has become popular among organizations to quickly unlock insights from data of all size and shape, and is supported by an ecosystem of popular open source projects, including Spark, R, Giraph, and Solr. “We’re excited Read more
Last week at the Red Hat North America Partner Conference (NAPC), Microsoft and Red Hat celebrated our growing partnership. From running Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure to Microsoft .NET apps on Red Hat’s OpenShift, partners were excited about our joint offering and how it can deliver value for their customers. During the event, Mark Hill, Microsoft VP Read more
Yesterday, Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. In conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences to all major devices – including iOS, Android, and Windows. Recently Read more
One of the largest open source and non-commercial events of the year in Kuala Lumpur is Joomla Day Malaysia held last August 2015. The event’s aim was to bring the Joomla community together to share knowledge and best practices, as well as to network with key Joomla developers. Sam Suresh, Joomla’s Community Manager in Malaysia, Read more
“Ubuntu is our favorite platform, and we were happy to see that it can be effortlessly deployed on Azure. In order to deploy our app into the virtual machine, we simply put in the script, and we have a full IP-PBX running for all users.” – Sanjay Willie, Chief Technology Officer, Astiostech Sdn. Bhd. Astiostech Read more
“With our datacenter system deployed on the Microsoft cloud platform, we are able to seamlessly integrate with open source software. The system has become more diverse, being able to provide for a wider range of customers with different needs.” – Nguyen Quang Thanh, Deputy Director, Da Nang Department of Information and Communications Da Nang officials Read more
Have you attended any of our free webinars from the OSS on Azure Tech Series? Launched early in 2015, we have held several sessions that catered to, and were attended by, a number of open source experts, professionals and enthusiasts. In case you missed any of the previous sessions (or you’d like a refresher) – Read more
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