Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/11/2011

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections.

How Yo! Sushi Saved 40% by Moving to Cloud Computing
Fast-food chain YO! Sushi hopes never to buy a server again, according to its IT Manager Billy Waters, and is placing its bets on cloud computing to improve productivity.

BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Office 365
Microsoft's Office 365 has quickly become a popular cloud productivity suite, and lack of BlackBerry integration was a significant gap that needed filling. RIM's BlackBerry Business Cloud Services goes a long way to filling that gap, providing a basic BlackBerry email service that works well with Microsoft's hosted Exchange services.

Move to Office 365 with Help from Software Assurance
Volume customers with Software Assurance can leverage their existent agreements in order to make the jump to Microsoft’s Cloud based productivity offerings.

Office 365 Integration Module Beta for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
Microsoft is allowing early adopters to start testing the first Beta development milestone of Office 365 Integration Module for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.

Microsoft's Server Roadmaps: Windows Server, SQL Server, Office 365 and More
Want more information on where Microsoft’s private- and public-cloud server products are headed? Check out our on-demand Webcast and “cheat sheet.”

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012: What's Coming in the Three Main Editions
SQL Server 2012, which will launch sometime in the first few months of 2012, has a lot of moving parts. Exactly how is Microsoft going to bundle up its various capabilities?

Microsoft’s Intune Makes Remote PC Management Easier
According to Computer World, Intune will provide administrators increased ability to control remote PCs. Not only will this allow for easier technical support of those PCs, it helps businesses run software inventories and deploy software over the network to a large number of computers at once.