On Tuesday, July 14, the inevitable end of computer servers as we know them arrived, as Microsoft finally retired its Windows Server 2003 operating system. And despite months of reminders to upgrade their servers and migrate their applications, a stunning number of data centers are still unprepared for the end of Windows Server 2003. According […]
Day: July 21, 2015
Facebook’s Digital Assistant Moneypenny Is a Real Person
Facebook is making its own version of Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Kortana, but rather than building a virtual digital assistant, Facebook’s “Moneypenny” is a real person. Referred to internally by the name of the secretary from the James Bond franchise, Moneypenny is more of a concierge service that’s being added to its Messenger app. If […]
Microsoft – Rackspace Alliance: Could This Be the Beginning of the End for Amazon’s Cloud Computing Domination?
Amazon has long been considered the industry leader when it comes to cloud computing, but that may be changing quickly: Microsoft recently announced that it would be partnering its cloud service, Microsoft Azure, with a public cloud service called Rackspace Hosting. With this partnership, the two services may have just created a hybrid cloud service […]