MemSQL: In-Memory Database

One Database for Real-Time & Historical Data - Fastest SQL Database, MemSQL
"MemSQL converges transactions and analytics for fast data processing and real-time reporting. Businesses turn to MemSQL to replace legacy infrastructure and for building next-generation applications.

• Accelerate Applications and Power Real-Time Operational Analytics.
• Flexible Scale-Out on Commodity Hardware to Maximize Performance and ROI.
• Analyze Real-Time and Historical Data Together.
• Combine relational and JSON data."

IoT, Data @ O'Reilly

14 Free Data Resources - O'Reilly Media


In pursuit of universal IoT standards - O'Reilly Radar

What Is the Internet of Things

Tim O'Reilly Explains the Internet of Things - NYTimes.com

Visual Studio 2015 on an Azure VM

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is now available and can be tested using an Azure VM! - Microsoft Developer Switzerland News - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

How To: Try Visual Studio 2015 on an Azure VM - Martin Kearn - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Visual Studio 2015 Preview now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery - Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

ASP.NET 5 Overview | The ASP.NET Site

Manage Client-Side Web Development in Visual Studio 2015, Using Grunt and Bower | The ASP.NET Site

Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Visual C++ - Visual C++ Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
"Visual Studio 2015 Preview (download here) introduces support for developers to be able to build cross-platform mobile native (C/C++) binaries targeting Windows platforms (through the Visual C++ toolchain C1xx/C2) and the Android (and iOS) platform (through Clang/LLVM toolchain)."

Could portable C++11 / C++14 compete with Xamarin C#. 

There are also Xamarin Forms for portable GUI. 

Or just use Web and Cordova/PhoneGap/Telerik

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