Webinar|May 18, 2017

Survey of the Azure Data Storage Landscape

Differences Between the Azure Data Storage Options In this webinar with Ike Ellis, a 5 year Microsoft Data Platform MVP, you will learn about the Azure Data storage platform and where the best places are to store each type of data. With so many available options, one can be paralyzed with choice. This webinar seeks to ease that…
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Azure and Cloud Computing|May 5, 2017

A Late Synopsis Of The Angular NG-Conf Day 3

With two jam-packed days in the books, only one day remained.  The format for the final day of ng-conf was another single room, all day series of sessions.  Much like the first day, the range of topics was both broad as they were relevant and informative.  Day 3 had a few major themes expressed in…
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Tutorials|May 3, 2017

Xamarin Forms for Windows Developers: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned, Part 1

The Confession Okay, right off the bat, I’m going to admit I’m a Microsoft “bigot” or in less unfriendly terms, a Microsoft “super-enthusiast” with severe “Microsoft is actually better at everything” leanings. I’ve spent most of the last 30 years writing Microsoft-based solutions with Microsoft tools and technologies for clients who are Microsoft “shops.” Still,…
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Webinar|Mar 24, 2017

Xamarin Mobile Development: Building Cross-Platform Apps for IOS, Android & Windows Devices

Xamarin Mobile Development Wintellect held a live hand’s-on webinar on Xamarin mobile development for building cross-platform apps including IOS, Android and Windows Devices. The agenda included an interactive and coding presentation from Jason Bell, including the mobile landscape and development options, the Xamarin development platform, Xamarin application architectural options and building shared application components. The event…
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Webinar|Jan 16, 2017

An Introduction to Azure DocumentDB

In the last several years NoSQL database stores have emerged as viable and useful alternatives to traditional relational databases. While relational technologies like SQL Server will likely always have a place in the enterprise, the means to store data as documents or connected graphs vs. classic “rows and columns” is powerful and should occupy a…
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azure-and-cloud-computing|Nov 8, 2016

Microsoft Open-Sources Azure Container Services Engine

Microsoft on Monday announced a number of updates to Azure Container Services that it says will make the container service more open and flexible. First up: The Kubernetes cloud orchestrator is now available in preview for Azure Container Services. This gives ACS customers a choice of orchestration technologies, with support for DC/OS, Swarm and Kubernetes.…
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Webinar|Nov 4, 2016

Harness the Power of Data With Azure Data Lake

The modern enterprise generates huge amounts of data and requires state-of-the-art tools to store, analyze, and derive actionable meaning from that data. Mainstream open-source options like Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Storm are powerful but have a big learning curve and impose significant ongoing operational burdens. Azure Data Lake combines these powerful tools with flexible, approachable…
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Webinar|Oct 31, 2016

Learn About Azure Container Services

Azure Container Services is one of the hottest implementations of Containers-as-a-Service for many reasons. Unlike many other CaaS implentations, ACS is pure Docker, yet it is fully backed and supported by many popular tools for Azure administration. When deployed, it is production ready, secure, and easily scaled. This one-hour webinar will demonstrate the power and…
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Webinar|Oct 14, 2016

An Introduction to Azure IoT Suite

The growing universe of smart devices provides us with an immense amount of data that can be analyzed to improve productivity and, ultimately, our quality of life. But what’s the best way to reliably and securely collect that data? In an insightful new webinar, Wintellect Principal Architect Josh Lane provides an overview of the technology behind…
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Tutorials|Sep 29, 2016

A Brief Tour of Azure IoT Hub

I’m preparing some material for a webinar on Azure IoT in mid-October (you are signed up, aren’t you?) and thought I’d do a quick intro to the basic concepts and moving parts. Azure IoT Hub is a cloud-scale service for managing and securely communicating with large numbers of field devices (potentially millions at once); communication…
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News|Aug 12, 2016

Microsoft Will Ditch Azure RemoteApp, Replace With New Citrix Service

Microsoft plans to drop its Azure RemoteApp service over the next year, instead partnering with Citrix to develop new solutions for allowing remote access to Windows apps from a variety of devices. Azure RemoteApp has given businesses the ability to deploy apps from the cloud to employees who are using PC and mobile devices running Windows, Mac…
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