Microsoft’s undersea datacenter helps the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine
An experimental Microsoft datacenter submerged beneath the sea in Scotland’s Orkney Islands is processing workloads for a global, distributed computing project to understand the viral proteins that cause COVID-19 and design therapeutics to stop them. Distributed computing projects harness otherwise idle computer processing power to perform specific tasks for big science research. Ongoing projects include […]
The Salvation Army’s help never wavered, thanks to a quick pivot to remote tools
For the staff at the Salvation Army’s international headquarters in London, COVID-19 became personal when pneumonia likely caused by the virus took away one of its own. Almost 150 of his past and present co-workers and friends honored him with a memorial service in April that included scripture readings, prayers and musical performances. Due to […]
Microsoft Is About To Shake Up Low-Code Platforms
Key Takeaways The Hot Low-Code Market Is Ripe For Consolidation Strong adoption of low-code development platforms by AD&D is fueling high growth. But the market is fragmented, big governance challenges remain, and mostly smaller vendors dominate. The conditions for a market consolidation are ripe. Microsoft Is Poised To Dominate Microsoft has weaknesses in low code. […]
Rapid application development with Microsoft Power Platform & Azure
This year, at Build, we have an incredible 31 sessions covering Power Platform and Azure. This volume of sessions at a professional developer conference is a turning point for the Power Platform, so I wanted to take a moment and reflect on this growing fusion of low-code and code-first development. Over the next three years, […]
Microsoft, Workday announce strategic partnership to accelerate planning for today’s world
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) today announced a strategic partnership prioritizing enterprise planning in the cloud and expanding the business solutions customers can use to better optimize their everyday work. Through this partnership, Workday customers will also be able to run Workday Adaptive Planning on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Further, Microsoft […]
Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ADPT) on Thursday launched ImmuneCODE with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to begin sharing one of the largest, most detailed views of the immune response to COVID-19 in real time based on de-identified data generated from thousands of COVID-19 blood samples from patients around the globe. The open database contains detailed information […]
Oracle Announces Java 14
Oracle JDK 14 represents more than two years of on-time six-month feature releases, bringing innovation and predictability to developers Oracle JDK 14 adds new features to improve developer productivity, including Java language support for switch expressions, new APIs for continuous monitoring of JDK Flight Recorder data, and extended availability of the low-latency Z Garbage Collector […]
Responding to COVID-19
As the world responds to the outbreak of COVID-19, our thoughts are with the people affected and the medical professionals working around the clock to help those most at need. At Microsoft, we’re working to do our part by ensuring the safety of our employees, striving to protect the health and well-being of the communities […]
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Vlocity
A Message from David Schmaier, CEO & Founder, Vlocity I am thrilled to share that today Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vlocity. Upon the close of the transaction, Vlocity – this wonderful company that we, as a team, have created, built, and grown into a transformational solution for six of the […]
How Microsoft 365’s new solution uses machine learning to stop data leaks and insider attacks
If an employee who recently gave two weeks’ notice starts downloading large numbers of files from the company network and copying them to a thumb drive, it is entirely possible that he or she has no malicious intent. The employee could be saving innocuous files related to their employment record or examples of marketing pieces […]