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Microsoft Buys Italian IoT Vendor Solair

Microsoft has purchased Solair, an Italy-based Internet of Things (IoT) company, for an undisclosed sum. Sam George, partner director at Microsoft Azure IoT, said the “acquisition supports our strategy to

SQL Server 2016 to Launch June 1

Microsoft has announced that the next version of its SQL Server database will launch June 1. SQL Server 2016 includes a number of built-in tools for data warehousing and big

Agile Hiring Methods

The ability to hire excellent software developers is a limiting factor. There is a real shortage, and as a result there is serious competition for every qualified candidate. As a

Microsoft PowerApps Now in Public Beta

Microsoft’s PowerApps code-free app-writing service is now available as a public beta, having completed a private beta trial period. PowerApps makes it possible for non-developers to create data-driven apps that

Analyze Complex Problems with EventStorming

Alberto Brandolini has been evangelizing the idea of EventStorming?for a while now. It is a powerful workshop format to breakdown complex business problems pertaining to real world scenarios. The idea

Samsung Unveils ARTIK Cloud IoT Service

On Wednesday at its developer conference in San Francisco, Samsung took the wraps off a new Internet of Things (IoT) service it calls ARTIK Cloud. The cloud computing service provides

Introduction to Graph Databases

In recent years the database scene has been boiling. New databases for special purposes seem to emerge every day and for a good reason. Data processing needs have become more

Node.js Releases Version 6

The Node.js project has released version 6 of its popular open source JavaScript runtime. ?This release is committed to Long Term Support [LTS], which allows predictable long-term stability, reliability, performance

Backup and Restore an SQL Database

Sometimes when trying to backup and restore a database from another database SQL Server throws errors saying that the database is in use. To get around this quite frustrating error,

Exploring the Google Cloud Stream Processing Framework

Google’s Dataflow framework?is a data processing engine that supports various types of data-related jobs: ETL, batch jobs and most–importantly stream processing. It is based a programming model that takes into

Jenkins 2 Offers Improved Usability, Security

The Jenkins open source continuous integration and delivery platform has released version 2 of its software. The update improves usability with features like coding pipelines, suggested configurations, suggested plug-ins and

Report: IoT Revenues Climb 15%

A new report from Technology Business Research (TBR) finds that revenues at 21 Internet of Things (IoT) firms climbed 14.8 percent to $6.7 billion in the last quarter of 2015.

Execute Code On-Demand with Azure Functions

At the recently concluded Build Conference, the Microsoft Azure team announced the preview of Functions, an app service that allows you to execute code on demand. Azure Functions is event-driven

Rational Tech Adoption

Many organizations have a hard time making decisions about adopting new technologies. There are two prominent camps. The early adopters will jump at any new technology and push towards integrating

Minimizing All Open Windows

It is quite easy to minimize all currently opened windows with C#. All you need to know is a few APIs: FindWindowSendMessageTimeout Here is a small example: public partial class