Microsoft learned valuable lessons from the Windows Vista experience, even though the company spent much of 2008 pretending that nothing was wrong with it and that the market hadn't given it a fair shake.

The world's first Open Storage appliances, the Sun Storage 7000 family features three products in its initial release: Sun Storage 7110, 7210 and 7410 - each is the first in a new and broad family of Unified Storage Systems. In conjunction with today's launch, Sun also announced a new Open Storage Partner Specialty Program and a series of new professional services to help customers take advantage of Open Storage technologies.

Microsoft showed off new Windows 7 innovations at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week. The focus was how the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship product will make it easier for hardware partners to create new experiences for Windows PC customers.

Windows senior vice presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan rallied hardware partners, encouraging them to begin testing their current products and building new products on the application programming interface (API).

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As biopharmaceutical companies continue to bring new therapies to market, considerable efforts are placed on strategy and execution from development through launch, while post-launch evaluations largely focus on revenue growth and little else. In a continuing effort to support product launch excellence, a recent study was conducted by Best Practices, LLC reviewing launch evaluation with insights available in the newly published report, "Pharmaceutical Product Launch Evaluation Excellence: Processes & Measures to Evaluate Launch Success."

One of the biggest problems I’ve run into when developing for mobile devices is data storage. Two problems come up. First, I’ll often be synchronizing with a server using a SQL database. Second, I’ll want to use relational databases in my mobile app itself while most devices today don’t natively support SQL. (The Android platform is an exception here. It includes SQLite.)
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SoftTree Technologies, a leading provider of database management and administration solutions, today announced release of new major version 4.0 of SQL Assistant. The new release introduces numerous enhancements and improvements to SoftTree's structured query language (SQL) auto-completion and visualization technology. Version 4.0 delivers enhanced SQL Intellisense+, 4th-generation code completion and code generation technology that enables database developers and DBAs to multiply their productivity, realize time savings up to 100% and more, and improve their code quality and accuracy.

Don’t miss SQL Server Magazine Connections Conference, the premier event for Microsoft developers and DBAs, in Las Vegas, November 10-13. Every attendee will receive a copy of SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition with one CAL.

Virtualization.info, the most popular and trusted news source about virtualization technologies since 2003, invites you to attend its premiere conference: the Virtualization Congress. On a truly independent stage, you’ll see the top technical speakers from the biggest industry players presenting real products, side by side with newest startups, who will be announcing for the first time breakthrough technologies. Join the entire virtualization ecosystem for three days and meet the people that are changing forever the way we deliver IT infrastructures.

View this web seminar to see how you can virtualize the connections between servers and storage creating a shared pool of resources, and is a flexible and highly available platform for consolidating SQL Server infrastructure. Thus seeing no degradation in performance and management is streamlined making this an ideal solution for mission-critical SQL Server databases running SAP applications.

Join Microsoft for the 2nd Annual Microsoft BI Conference from October 6-8th in Seattle, Washington. You’ll gain insight from industry thought leaders; learn about how other Microsoft BI customers are having success; discover best practices and gain product insight from Microsoft’s product experts. Visit www.msbiconference.com for more information.

IndyTechFest is the premier Developer/DBA conference in Indianapolis. Hosted by IndyPASS and IndyNDA, this years' conference includes over 30 sessions to fill your day with training from product experts and Microsoft MVPs. Admission is free!

This two-day course will be most valuable to medical device software engineers, engineering managers, scientists, and quality engineers (particularly in product development). This course will also be beneficial to quality assurance and regulatory affairs personnel who are new to the industry or their current position and do not have an in-depth knowledge of Medical Device Software requirements.
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There are two types of change that can impact performance once escalated into the production environment:

New Development
Tuning Existing Application Code
New development consists of new functions and features that are pushed into production while tuning for existing code arises when the development process breaks down or the changes are not well tested. This will cause performance issues to arise in production.

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Toronto reseller Softchoice Corp. is branching out into application development by offering customers of its consulting business tools to help manage their IT assets.

Embarcadero Technologies has updated its recently acquired CodeGear Rapid Application Development (RAD) suite and languages for Windows. Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 feature the first merging of previously separate development environments from CodeGear and Embarcadero, sharpening the focus on database development. The tools also expand the former CodeGear's Visual Component Library (VCL) of re-usable components for Windows XP, Vista and the web.