REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business. Microsoft’s most complete Office cloud service to date has new features and offerings tailored to the needs and budgets of small, medium-size and large organizations. In addition to updated Microsoft Lync Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online services, business users can now get the rich Office applications they are familiar with, on up to five devices, delivered as an always up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 features enhanced enterprise social capabilities with SharePoint and Yammer today, and Lync-Skype connectivity for presence, instant messaging (IM), and voice by June. The new Office 365 service is available today in 69 markets and 17 languages and will be available in an additional 20 markets and 16 languages in the second quarter of this year.

“With Office 365, everyone from large enterprises to small businesses to individual consumers can now benefit from the power of Office and the connectivity of the cloud,” said Microsoft Office Division President Kurt DelBene. “This release unlocks new scenarios and delivers capabilities that far surpass anything available in browser-only solutions.”

Since launching in mid-2011, Office 365 is one of the fastest-growing businesses in Microsoft history. After only 18 months, one in five of Microsoft’s enterprise customers now has the paid service, up from one in seven a year ago. The number of small and midsize businesses using Office 365 has also grown by 150 percent in the past 12 months. Today Microsoft continued the wave of Office 365 momentum, announcing three new customers — Hamburg Port Authority, which manages operations for Europe’s second-largest port; Midroc Europe, a property development and management organization composed of 15 companies across Europe and South Africa; and Sephora USA Inc., a leading specialty beauty retailer. These customers join others that are choosing Office 365 across business, public sector and education, including the State of Texas, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Helly Hansen, Tesco, Toyota, Barilla America Inc. and the City of Chicago.

“For Hamburg Port Authority, our typical day on ships and in the harbor is different from most companies, as are our technology and business needs,” said Dr. Sebastian Saxe, chief information officer at Hamburg Port Authority. “Our workforce is mobile, so communication and access to information is critical for our 1,900 employees. Office 365 helps our team connect to the people and information that are important, while also reducing IT time on testing, installing and updating versions by 75 percent.”

“At Toyota, we always strive to provide innovative products and exceptional customer satisfaction. We needed to improve our productivity service to support our business speed and demands as well as improve collaboration across our affiliates,” said Karen Nocket, corporate manager, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. “We evaluated our options and found that Microsoft had the most robust, integrated suite with Office 365. It has the capabilities we need to excel in today’s business environment, such as email, calendaring, video, IM and document sharing. Microsoft Office 365 is enabling us to make faster, unified decisions across Toyota.”

More information on these customers and others is available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/customer-stories.aspx.

New Office 365 Offerings Tailored for Customer Needs

Today, Microsoft is announcing a new set of Office 365 offerings designed to meet a broad variety of business requirements:

• Office 365 ProPlus. Office 365 ProPlus includes the latest and most complete set of fully featured, rich Office applications — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, InfoPath and Access — delivered as a service, on up to five devices. People can now simply sign in to Office 365 from any of their devices, and their documents and personalized settings roam with them, allowing them to quickly pick up right where they left off. IT departments also get the controls they need, including the ability to run Office 365 ProPlus side-by-side with other versions of Office and tools to streamline and manage updates for their users. Office 365 ProPlus is available as a standalone offering for $144 per user for an annual subscription and is included with the updated premium Office 365 Enterprise offerings and the new Office 365 Midsize Business.

• Office 365 Midsize Business. Office 365 Midsize Business is designed for medium-sized businesses with 10 to 250 employees. This service includes Office 365 ProPlus and provides midsize businesses with enterprise-quality communication and collaboration with Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online — along with the simplified IT tools they need to maintain control while reducing complexity. Active Directory integration, a Web-based administration console and business-hours phone support are also included. Pricing is $180 per user for an annual subscription, the equivalent of $15 per user, per month.

• Office 365 Small Business Premium. Office 365 Small Business Premium is designed for small businesses with one to 10 employees. In addition to the complete set of rich Office applications, this service includes business-grade email, shared calendars, website tools and HD videoconferencing capability in an easy-to-manage service that does not require IT expertise. Pricing is $150 per user for an annual subscription, the equivalent of $12.50 per user, per month.

The New Office Now Available for Everyone

With today’s general availability of Office 365 for all businesses, the new Office is now fully available to businesses, academic institutions and consumers. In addition to the business services announced today, on Jan. 29 Microsoft launched Office 365 Home Premium and updated versions of the traditional Office suite and servers.

Customers can purchase Office directly from Microsoft or through an authorized retail outlet or partner. More information on Office and how to sign up for a free trial is available at http://www.office.com.

Microsoft will be holding a live webcast for customers today at 8 a.m. PST featuring DelBene and Microsoft Office Division Corporate Vice President John Case, along with customers the City of Chicago, Meals on Wheels Association of America and Toyota, which will share the vision and benefits of Office 365 for businesses. The webcast is available at https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=12696&LangLocaleID=1033&AffiliateData=press release.

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DALIBO is proud to announce the release of pgBadger v3, the new PostgreSQL log analyzer. pgBadger is built for speed with fully detailed reports from your PostgreSQL log file.

This new release brings significant improvements. All pgBadger users should upgrade as soon as possible.

pgBadger 3 parallel log parsing

The first versions of pgBadger were bound to only one CPU. The PostgreSQL log files were scanned sequentially. Analyzing very large log files could take several hours.

This limitation is now removed. You can use as many CPU cores as you want and scan your logs in parallel.

To enable parallel processing, you just have to use the -j N option, N being the number of cores you want to use.

Please note that the parallel mode has a little drawback. With this method, some queries may be truncated. If you enable N cores, then result may differ in a maximum of N queries per log file.

However, this is a minor issue: parallel mode is interesting if you have millions of queries to analyze. And if you have millions of queries in a log file, you can afford to loose a few as it's quite unlikely that the lost queries would have changed the overall results.

However, to avoid this problem, you can use the pgBadger "per-file parallel mode" to analyze your logs but with lower performance than the standard parallel mode. To enable this behaviour, you have to use the "-J N" option instead of "-j N". In per-file mode, the performances start being really interesting when there's hundreds of small log files (e.g. 10MB rotation size limit) and with at least 8 cores.

How fast is pgBadger 3?

The goal was to allow pgBadger to use as many cores as specified to have parallel log parsing. Here are some performance results using pgbadger on five log files for a total of 9.5 GB:

• with 1 core => 1h 41m 18s
• with 2 cores => 50m 25s
• with 4 cores => 25m 39s
• with 8 cores => 15m 58s

We feel this performance gain is quite interesting :)

New binary format

In addition to the classic HTML, TXT and Tsung output formats, pgBadger 3 is now able to generate a binary input/output format. This new format is useful if you only want to store the log statistics and generate the HTML report with graph later.

In a nutshell, the two main activities of pgBadger are parsing and reporting. With this binary format, you can now split those activities and run them at different times. For exemple, you can parse your log once a day, and generate the HTML reports only when needed.

You can also combine several binary files to . For Instance, you may create a binary report every week and aggregate the last 4 week reports to build a monthly report in HTML.

This new binary format is also compatible with other tools such as pgShark https://github.com/dalibo/pgshark/.

More stats, more pie charts!

This major release also has additional features:

• New pie graph to show number of autovacuum per table and number of tuples removed by autovacuum per table
• No more distinction between log_duration, log_statement and log_min_duration_statement format
• New report of tuples/pages removed in report of VACUUM by table
• New VACUUM and ANALYZE hourly reports and graphs

... and many bugfixes .

For the complete list of changes, please checkout the release note on https://github.com/dalibo/pgbadger/blob/master/ChangeLog

Deprecated options

WARNING : for the sake of simplicity, the '--enable-log_min_duration' and '--enable-log_duration' command line options have been removed. pgbadger is now parsing any log_duration, log_statement and log_min_duration_statement lines without distinction and adapt the reports following those lines.

If you are running pgBadger using cron, please take care: if one of theses options appears in the command line, pgbadger will refuse to start.

Links & Credits

DALIBO would like to thank the developers who submitted patches and the users who reported bugs and feature requests, especially Matt Romaine, Luke Cyca, Kevin Brannen, Adam Schroder, pilat66, Euler Taveira de Oliveira, stuntmunkee, pierrestroh, Vipul, Dirk-Jan Bulsink and Vincent Laborie.

pgBadger is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the GitHub tools or directly on our mailing list.

Links :

• Download
• Mailing List

About pgBadger :

pgBagder is a new generation log analyzer for PostgreSQL, created by Gilles Darold, also author of ora2pg migration tool. pgBadger is a fast and easy tool to analyze your SQL traffic and create HTML5 reports with dynamics graphs. pgBadger is the perfect tool to understand the behavior of your PostgreSQL server and identify which SQL queries need to be optimized.

Docs, Download & Demo at http://dalibo.github.com/pgbadger/

About DALIBO :

DALIBO is the leading PostgreSQL company in France, providing support, trainings and consulting to its customers since 2005. The company contributes to the PostgreSQL community in various ways, including : code, articles, translations, free conferences and workshops

Check out DALIBO's open source projects at http://dalibo.github.com

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 25, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has expanded on a global Enterprise Agreement with a new Memorandum of Understanding to offer Microsoft Office 365 and other products as the standard communications and collaboration platform for its National Societies worldwide, helping provide greater licensing flexibility. The signing has the potential to serve more than 1 million volunteers and staff members in the network.

Through this renewed and expanded partnership with Microsoft, the IFRC is aiming to help these National Societies grow stronger by more strategically using technology advances such as cloud services, while making the best use of the resources and investments made by donors. Already two of the estimated 80 early-qualifying National Societies — in Bangladesh and Namibia — have deployed Office 365, and many more are expected to follow close behind.

“The success we saw from real-world use of Office 365 in our American and Danish Red Cross Societies helped pave the way to this broader adoption,” said Edward Happ, Global Chief Information Officer, IFRC. “And now, for the first time in our history, all of our National Societies will have the ability to free up IT spending and time to focus more of their resources on the activities that are ultimately saving lives.”

Prior to signing the agreement for Office 365, the IFRC was actively seeking a solution to address its internal digital divide and provide smaller National Societies with access to the same tools, same technologies and same modern processes that the larger National Societies have. Based on its fundamental principle of universality, providing equal access to entirely new ways of working regardless of location ensures the National Societies become more efficient, participate more fully in the work of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, work more closely with their partners in the broader organization, and are better able to reach out to the vulnerable communities they serve.

“Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help create a secure framework for improved access to technology without compromising on capabilities or effectiveness,” said Laura Ipsen, corporate vice president, Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector. “I am proud that our collaboration with the IFRC will generate new opportunities to achieve their goals and deliver real impact for millions of beneficiaries around the world.”

Finding a company with global deployment expertise and an understanding of how important technology is for providing on-the-ground communications and organizational tools was a critical factor in the IFRC’s decision. Now, with the support of Microsoft’s reliable cloud computing technologies and robust security features, the IFRC will be able to provide all stakeholders with a world-class technology platform no matter where they are and improve the process of delivering new programs directly to recipients.

More information about how organizations are turning to Microsoft technology is available on the Microsoft Customer Spotlight newsroom.

About the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest volunteer-based humanitarian network, reaching 150 mil¬lion people each year through our 187 member National Societies. Together, we act before, during and after disasters and health emergencies to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people. We do so with impartiality as to nationality, race, gender, religious beliefs, class and political opinions.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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