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Liam Cavanagh just posted a great video on SQL Server to SQL Azure Sync using sync framework.
Liam also has a good post with more details here.
Today we announced release of SQL Server Migration Assistant(SSMA) for MySQL.
The migration toolkits were designed to tackle the complex manual process customer’s deal with when migrating databases. In using the SQL Server Migration Assistants, customers and partners reduce the manual effort; as a result the time, cost and risks associated with migrating are significantly reduced. All SSMA toolkits are available for free download.
SSMA for MySQL v1.0 is designed to work with MySQL 4.1 and above. Some of the salient features included in this release are the ability to convert/migrate:
Customers and partners can provide feedback via ssmateam@microsoft.com.
During his keynote speech at the WPC 2010 in July, Microsoft President Bob Muglia announced that the CTP3 of “Dallas” would be available within 30 days. Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of “Dallas” CTP3 at www.sqlazureservices.com.
This new CTP brings with it a number of exciting improvements, rounding out the “Dallas” experience and making it easier to develop applications using data from “Dallas” subscriptions. CTP3 brings with it a number of small incremental changes as well as larger, highly-requested new features such as:
For more information and to experience “Dallas” CTP3 for yourself, visit www.sqlazureservices.com.
Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch
Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment. AUGUST 2010 • Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika Source: McKinsey Global Institute In This Article Trend 1: Distributed cocreation moves into the mainstream Trend 2: Making the network the organization Trend 3: Collaboration at scale Trend 4: The growing ‘Internet of Things’ Trend 5: Experimentation and big data Trend 6: Wiring for a sustainable world Trend 7: Imagining anything as a service Trend 8: The age of the multisided business model Trend 9: Innovating from the bottom of the pyramid Trend 10: Producing public good on the grid Two-and-a-half years ago, we described eight technology-enabled business trends that were profoundly reshaping strategy across a wide swath of industries.1 We showed how the combined effects of emerging Internet technologies, increased computing power, and fast, pervasive digital communications were spawning new ways to manage talent and assets as well as new thinking about organizational structures. Since then, the technology landscape has continued to evolve rapidly. Facebook, in just over two short years, has quintupled in size to a network that touches more than 500 million users. More than 4 billion people around the world now use cell phones, and for 450 million of those people the Web is a fully mobile experience. The ways information technologies are deployed are changing too, as new developments such as virtualization and cloud computing reallocate technology costs and usage patterns while creating new ways for individuals to consume goods and services and for entrepreneurs and enterprises to dream up viable business models. The dizzying pace of change has affected our original eight trends, which have continued to spread (though often at a more rapid pace than we anticipated), morph in unexpected ways, and grow in number to an even ten.2
AUGUST 2010 • Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika
Source: McKinsey Global Institute
Two-and-a-half years ago, we described eight technology-enabled business trends that were profoundly reshaping strategy across a wide swath of industries.1 We showed how the combined effects of emerging Internet technologies, increased computing power, and fast, pervasive digital communications were spawning new ways to manage talent and assets as well as new thinking about organizational structures.
Since then, the technology landscape has continued to evolve rapidly. Facebook, in just over two short years, has quintupled in size to a network that touches more than 500 million users. More than 4 billion people around the world now use cell phones, and for 450 million of those people the Web is a fully mobile experience. The ways information technologies are deployed are changing too, as new developments such as virtualization and cloud computing reallocate technology costs and usage patterns while creating new ways for individuals to consume goods and services and for entrepreneurs and enterprises to dream up viable business models. The dizzying pace of change has affected our original eight trends, which have continued to spread (though often at a more rapid pace than we anticipated), morph in unexpected ways, and grow in number to an even ten.2
Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch - McKinsey Quarterly - High Tech - Strategy & Analysis