| | | | | | | | | | | New Azure advancements remove cloud barriers for enterprises at Ignite 2017 | At this year's Microsoft Ignite, Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise, talked about how cloud is no longer about who has more features—it's about how successful you can be with the cloud. With our depth of enterprise understanding and grit to do the complex technology work, Azure uniquely unlocks cloud-based success for all our customers. To do this, we've focused our innovation into four key areas: enabling IT and developer productivity, providing a consistent hybrid cloud, unlocking AI solutions, and ensuring trust through security, privacy, and cost controls. Read more in his blog post, watch his presentation, and catch up on other on-demand content from Ignite 2017.
Be sure to also catch up on on-demand content from Microsoft Envision. | | | | Empowering the quantum revolution | During Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's keynote at Microsoft Ignite, he announced our company's plans to invest in quantum computing. Quantum computing takes a giant leap forward from today's technology—one that will forever alter our economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscape. In just hours or days, a quantum computer can solve complex problems that would otherwise take billions of years for classical computing to solve. This has massive implications for research in healthcare, energy, environmental systems, smart materials, and more. We envision a future where customers use Azure for both classical and quantum computing. Learn more.
 | | | | Make the most of your cloud investment with Azure Cost Management | | Azure Cost Management, also known as Cloudyn, helps your organization manage cloud spend across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. It provides you the tools to monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spend so you can accelerate future investment with confidence. Azure Cost Management is available for free to all Azure customers and partners to manage their Azure spend. Start to use Azure Cost Management for free. | | | | First Microsoft Azure Stack systems are headed to your datacenters | | Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, letting you uniquely meet hybrid requirements like compliance, latency, and true consistency as a part of your hybrid cloud strategy. Azure Stack is now shipping through Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Lenovo. Azure Stack integrated systems from Cisco are ready to order now. Additionally, Wortmann plans to introduce terra integrated systems for Azure Stack by the end of this year. You can also buy Azure Stack as a managed service from Avanade, Rackspace, and several Microsoft Supplier Program (MSP) partners. Azure Stack certification materials for IT professionals are available now, and certification exams will start early next year. Learn more. | | | | | | | Azure Friday: Azure Site Recovery |
Azure Friday's Scott Hanselman learns how Azure Site Recovery can help save the day to keep apps available in the event of a disaster. Watch now.
 | | | | | | | | | | Course: Cybersecurity Reference Architecture |
Are you protecting your enterprise from cybersecurity threats? In today's mobile IT environment, cloud and mobile devices often extend beyond your network controls. Join cybersecurity experts for a deep dive into the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (this link downloads a PowerPoint presentation), and explore strategies and integrated capabilities to help you solve your security challenges. Watch the course. | | | | Microsoft Tech Summit is back—register today |
Build your skills with the latest in cloud technologies at a free, technical learning event for IT pros and developers. Whether you're developing innovative apps or delivering optimized solutions, Microsoft Tech Summit can help evolve your skills, deepen your expertise, and grow your career. Choose from more than 70 sessions featuring the top engineers across Azure, Office 365, and Windows 10. Find a free event near you.
 | | | | Azure at Sitecore Symposium 2017 |
Attending Sitecore Symposium 2017 in Las Vegas on October 16–19, 2017? Stop by Microsoft Booth #500 to see how powerful Sitecore on Azure delivers business results. Or, attend Azure architect Michael Collier's developer session, What's New in Azure: Lots!, on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at 11:45 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7). | | | | Experience Azure Marketplace solutions with on-demand hands-on labs |
Get hands-on experience with popular Azure Marketplace solutions from Cisco, Citrix, Red Hat, and others. Our self-paced, on-demand virtual labs give you the experience you need to test, deploy, and compare Marketplace solutions in your organization. Learn more and register. | | | | Course: See IoT in Action with Microsoft |
Visit our IoT in Action with Microsoft video hub and learn from our IoT experts about the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), how to capitalize your IoT investment, how to build a world-class IoT solution with Azure, and more. Choose from two immersive learning tracks with 10 courses designed for both business and technical IoT practitioners. | | | | IoT in Action with Microsoft event in Boston |
We're launching the IoT in Action series event in seven international cities. Join us at our first stop in the United States: Boston, Massachusetts on October 30, 2017. This event will provide attendees a combination of thought leadership and technical knowhow that educates, excites, and enables go-to-market (GTM) development across Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem partners. Register today to see what's possible with IoT, get educated on IoT, and build new partnerships that will help you succeed. | | | | IoT Virtual Bootcamp: A Brief Journey from Device to Action |
Join our virtual bootcamp for Internet of Things (IoT) to learn from the experts on how to create enterprise-grade IoT solutions. Start from a basic device and make it smarter with the power of cloud. Hear live from IoT experts from Microsoft and the rest of the industry, then roll up your sleeves and create your own IoT solution(s) with hundreds of other commercial makers in the (virtual) room. Register now. | | | | Cloud Cover: Azure Event Grid |
In this episode, learn about Azure Event Grid, a new service that enables developers to build event-based programming. Events could be anything within Azure such as blob creation in Azure Blob storage, a virtual machine starting, and much more. By subscribing to events, your apps can be notified whenever these events occur. You can also create your own events available for subscriptions.
 | | | | Course: Developing planet-scale apps in Azure Cosmos DB |
Get hands-on with planet-scale apps in Azure Cosmos DB. If you're familiar leveraging cloud native services on Azure and the platform's big data options, take the next step with an in-depth look at Developing Planet-Scale Applications in Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is the distributed, super-scalable, multi-model database from Microsoft that transparently replicates your data wherever your users are. Write code against the different APIs as you learn from the experts about this fully managed service and its broad, global-scale features and capabilities. Get started today. | | | | Webinar: Crawl, walk, and run with container-based web apps using Azure |
Azure, with broad offerings from integrated development tools to a fully-managed container platform, has options for you to develop, run, and manage containerized apps easily at scale. Learn how to quickly deploy, update, and scale containerized web apps using Azure App Service without the hassle of managing your infrastructure at the same time. Register to attend on October 4, 2017, at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7) or watch on demand later. | | | | Webinar: Building AI applications with the power of the cloud |
Learn how you can collaborate with your team to use cloud-enabled tools and services that manage the entire end-to-end machine learning lifecycle. We'll provide an in-depth, real-world example showing you how to harness the tools and technology used by professional developers and data scientists to help take your artificial intelligence (AI) skills to the next level. Register to attend on October 4, 2017, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC-7) or watch on demand later. | | | | | | | |  | | | At Malaysia Airlines, innovation's up and costs are down, because the company has more than its planes in the clouds |
In the increasingly competitive airline industry, Malaysia Airlines wanted to lower its costs and boost its innovation to gain strategic advantage. That's what it's done with its move to Azure, part of a digital transformation that makes its SAP environment more cost-effective and creates new opportunities to increase customer engagement.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Global restaurant chain dishes on the benefits of cloud computing |
Vapiano Restaurant, a global restaurant chain, serves up innovative dining experiences in order to differentiate itself from others in the market. Because it runs its business on the Azure platform, Vapiano takes advantage of the inherent agility and extensibility of cloud computing to expand operations and raise the bar for the "fast-casual dining" experience everywhere.
Learn more | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Realize your data's potential with Cloudera on Azure |
Cloudera empowers organizations to become data-driven enterprises in the newly hyperconnected world. Through extensive collaboration with the global open source community, Cloudera has developed a leading platform for modern data management integrated to the cloud. This enables organizations to use vast amounts of data from a variety of sources to better serve their customers, design connected products, and reduce risk.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Protect, recover, and mobilize apps using Azure with Zerto |
Still using an on-premises environment for app and data recovery? Zerto Virtual Replication is a software solution available from Azure Marketplace that allows for continuous, bi-directional data protection utilizing Azure. Protect, recover, mobilize, and test business apps using Zerto with Azure and become more confident in the resilience of your infrastructure while saving capital expenditure. Attend the Zerto webinar to learn five simple steps to use Zerto with Azure to protect your data and apps.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Featured: Cloud-ready 90-day free firewall trial |
Barracuda Networks Cloud Generation firewalls are now available as 90-day free licenses. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ideal for protecting web apps in Azure, and secures against all manner of web attacks. These are fully-featured versions, so customers can migrate workloads, run extensive reports, and monitor web app access. Speed up the journey to a safe cloud with a free 90-day trial for Cloud Generation firewalls.
Get your free 90-day trial | | | | |  | | | New: Launch JIRA Software Data Center in Azure |
JIRA Software Data Center is now supported to run in Azure. JIRA Software Data Center is Atlassian's purpose-built solution for organizations scaling JIRA Software that need high availability, disaster recovery, and performance at scale. Now you can get the full power of JIRA Software Data Center on infrastructure you trust, and pain-free deployment with the Atlassian template for Azure Resource Manager.
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There's been so much buzz over the last few months about Microsoft Ignite 2017—it's hard to believe that it's already over! I'm sure many of you were able to go in person, but if you didn't, you can still catch up with on-demand videos. Whether you were there in person or viewing it remotely, I'd love to hear from you. What was your favorite moment or announcement from Ignite? Did it inspire you to try something new with your app or business?
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