To The Point

The other day I received a text from one of our customers, “thanks so much for all your help – I can’t believe how easy it is to do everything from any device.” It was rewarding to get this feedback.

Virtualization adoption is on the rise. The ability to replace 3 to 6 physical servers with only one has proven to be beneficial and extremely valuable. Data centers are changing for the better due to virtualization platforms such as VMWare ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and Redhat RHV.

REST API’s are everywhere these days. As a developer you will certainly be required to interface with one sooner than later. Thankfully, when working in the .NET Framework, there are tools which can make interfacing with these APIs fairly easily compared to the past.

There have been very few advances with SQL Server Reporting Services in the past few versions but 2016 looks like a significant jump in features making SSRS a competitive option for desktop and mobile users alike.

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 was released April 1st 2014. There are many organizations who are only now considering rolling out SQL Server 2012. The effort involved in planning and testing commercial products and custom line of business applications with a new database server version is often one of the largest barriers to upgrading.