| | | | | | | | | | | Microsoft joins Cloud Foundry Foundation | | On June 13, 2017, we announced that Microsoft is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation at the Gold level. Cloud Foundry is an open cloud app development platform that helps enterprises solve complex business challenges. This marks an important milestone in our vision of making Azure an open, flexible, and portable platform. Read more. | | | | Customer-submitted story: Hello Ethics | Hello Ethics is a SaaS for reporting unethical conduct, illegal actions, or violations of professional company standards. The main concern companies have about ethical reporting services is keeping the information secure. Azure SQL Database was chosen to safeguard Hello Ethics' reports, and Azure ensures peace of mind. Business size doesn't matter—Hello Ethics lets customers collect information from small or large groups. Users manage reports in the dashboard, and the data can be shown in a variety of formats, such as maps, timelines, network analysis graphs, or statistics.
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IT pros and developers: if you want to skill up in the latest technologies, you need to explore the new Learning Paths offered by Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA). These curated courses have been selected to help you increase your proficiency in a given technology. You can gain valuable skills through video tutorials, demos, assessments, and more. Plus, you earn MVA badges for completed learning paths to share in email or social media. Get started today! | | | | Cloud Architecture Whiteboard Webinar Series |
Overcome key development challenges by using proven cloud design patterns that enable reliable, scalable, and more secure apps in the cloud. This webinar series addresses common problems that engineers and developers face when designing cloud-based solutions. Each webinar in the series focuses on a set of design patterns that address a fundamental design task. Learn more. | | | | On-demand Azure Marketplace virtual hands-on labs |
Sign up for one or more complimentary on-demand labs, and get hands-on experience with popular Azure Marketplace solutions from Cisco, Citrix, Red Hat, and others. It doesn't matter if you're new to the solutions or already an expert, these labs give you the detailed information you need to compare, test, and deploy technologies in your organization through a hands-on demo, in 45 minutes or less. Learn more and register.
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In this episode, learn about Azure Time Series Insights, a fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that helps make it simple to explore and analyze billions of Internet of Things (IoT) events simultaneously. Watch now.
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Microsoft SQL Server is bringing its world-class RDBMS to open-source enterprise ecosystems with SQL Server on Linux. Learn about recent developments and get answers to your questions in our virtual town halls, where we connect you with the team behind SQL Server on Linux. Register to view on demand. | | | | Podcast: The Opportunity of a More Secure IoT |
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a significant opportunity to enterprises as they go through digital transformation. While businesses are eager to take advantage of the efficiencies and gains promised by IoT, they must also implement greater security to protect their assets and investments. In the latest episode of the Microsoft Partner Network podcast, Rodney Clark, VP of IoT Device Experience, discusses security not only as a concern for enterprises but also as a differentiator for partners. Listen now. | | | | On-demand webinar: How to tackle the top three challenges of IoT projects |
Learn the business value that Internet of Things (IoT) technologies bring to companies of all sizes across industries by connecting people, assets, processes, and systems. This webinar covers the benefits you can expect from an IoT solution; real-world use cases across several industries; best practices; how to get started; and how to navigate the stages of a solution to maximize value. | | | | IoT and retail: Blue Dynamic bridges the gap between online and in-store | | On-demand webinar: Accelerate your Enterprise Mobility + Security deployment with FastTrack |
Take advantage of our FastTrack customer success service to facilitate your Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security deployment. Hear from FastTrack features experts who spend their days helping customers get these services up and running. See how to implement specific scenarios that contribute to deployment success. And learn how to accelerate the deployment of Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, and more. Register now. | | | | On-demand webinar: Supporting your EU GDPR compliance journey with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security |
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impact most businesses. Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security offers approaches, recommended practices, and techniques to support your compliance journey. In this on-demand webinar, hear about our committed, principled approach that ensures you can trust the digital technology we use. | | | | On-demand webinar: Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security in action: Advanced security for Office 365 and beyond |
This webinar gives you an in-depth view of how Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security extends and adds new capabilities to Office 365 so you can manage a changing threat landscape—on-premises and in the cloud—and effectively respond to shadow IT. | | | | On-demand webinar: Incident Response: Getting the upper hand in the cybercrime fight |
Compromise of IT systems is inevitable. Most survey data shows security stakeholders at organizations don't have confidence in their Incident Response (IR) capability due to skills shortage, in particular inadequate detection and response. Our IR team lead talks about what happens in the critical moments after Microsoft IR teams engage with a customer under cyberattack. Register now. | | | | On-demand webinar: Achieving greater business productivity with Microsoft PowerApps |
For customers and partners looking to achieve greater productivity in the enterprise, this webinar is for you. Learn how to fill the "last mile" gap in productivity; enable greater business user empowerment; and increase speed and ease of development. Register now. | | | | On-demand webinar: Optimize your app data platform with Microsoft |
Join us for this webinar to learn how the latest updates to Microsoft SQL Server can help build rich app experiences and maximize your revenue potential. Learn more about innovation for all SQL Server apps; cross-platform support on Windows and Linux; containerization for DevOps and customer deployments; and graph data analysis combined with all the benefits of SQL Server—security, performance, and availability. | | | | Webinar: Accelerating digital transformation with technology |
We recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to better understand how enterprises across the globe are pursuing digital strategies. This global study focuses on the outcomes they sought, challenges faced, and improvements they're realizing. We'll highlight the role that technology (CRM, ERP, business intelligence, and productivity) has played in accelerating digital transformation efforts. Register to attend on July 12, 2017, or watch on demand later. | | | | On-demand webinar: Balance database loads with ScaleArc |
Database workloads can be challenging to run in the cloud, given smaller database instance sizes and cross-region workflows. ScaleArc's database load-balancing software makes it easier to adopt Azure for Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle workloads. The software also improves the availability and performance of apps running on those databases. View this ScaleArc webinar to learn more. | | | | On-demand webinar: Harness your data with Nasuni powered by Azure |
How you access, manage, protect, and utilize your data is a challenge. Gartner reports that data volume is set to grow 800 percent over the next five years. Nasuni offers a complete Azure-based enterprise file storage system to handle this growth. The IT goal hasn't changed. How to accomplish it has. The debate is not hardware versus the cloud. It's how to create an intelligent file infrastructure that utilizes the cloud. View this Nasuni webinar to learn more. | | | | | | | |  | | | Making movie magic more affordable |
Major motion picture studios rely on Jellyfish Pictures to add sizzle and magic to their live-action and animated movies. Jellyfish is one of the most respected visual-effects and animation studios in the world. It uses Azure to augment its on-premises rendering farm with on-demand, high-performance computing (HPC) resources.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Mobile game developer primed for the armies to arrive |
It's critical that gaming startups make the right technology decisions early on so that when their game goes viral, their infrastructure holds. Swedish mobile game developer FunRock chose to build the back-end infrastructure for its debut title on Azure Service Fabric. With Service Fabric, FunRock has the scalability, performance, and development agility needed to support tens of thousands of simultaneous players and continuously enhance the game with new features.
Learn more | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Microsoft and Druva better together—cloud data protection for Office 365 |
Organizations rely on Microsoft Office 365 to power their business and employee productivity. While the core capabilities of Office 365 are powerful, you need a purpose-built data protection solution like Druva to address requirements including legal hold, eDiscovery, data loss prevention (DLP), ransomware, advanced threat protection, encryption, and business continuity.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | NeoLedge receives help with global expansion from Microsoft GTM Services |
As a partner in the Microsoft Go-To-Market Services program, NeoLedge was able to participate in the Microsoft Global Expansion program. "The Global Expansion program has enabled us to structure not only the way we have expanded internationally, but also our indirect strategy, our product positioning, and our value offer compared to our competitors and towards our customers," said Christian Serrure, Chief Product Officer at NeoLedge.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Featured: Accelerate existing app migrations to Azure without re-engineering your data services |
SoftNAS Cloud NAS is a software-defined virtual NAS that runs on Azure compute and storage backends, while providing enterprise-class features like encryption, data protection, and high availability. SoftNAS Cloud NAS scales to petabytes and supports major storage protocols (CIFS, NFS, AFP, and iSCSI) so no re-engineering of your existing apps is needed when moving them to Azure. Use SoftNAS Cloud NAS for backup, disaster recovery, and file services. Test-drive SoftNAS Cloud NAS on Azure free for 30 days or contact SoftNAS for more info.
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Companies are moving apps to the Azure cloud, but their traditional WAN wasn't built for cloud delivery. Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN delivers apps from the cloud to users with a secured, reliable connectivity and end-to-end visibility. Microsoft customers who use NetScaler SD-WAN can deploy more apps in Azure because they can be confident they have a reliable connection and that their employees will have a superior user experience.
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Whether you've used Azure for a long time or are just getting acquainted with our products, I invite you to grab a cup of your favorite coffee or tea, and then read this in-depth article, Securing the Cloud. You'll discover how much company-wide effort we put into making the cloud a more secured place for your data and apps. (Did you know that we invest about $1 billion in cloud security each year?)
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