| | | | | | | | | | | Featured customer-submitted story: Cazena | Software as a service (SaaS) partner Cazena relies on Azure to provide the infrastructure for its Big Data as a Service. Cazena gives enterprises their own data science sandboxes, data lakes, or data warehouses on Azure, provisioned in minutes, with value-added features for data movement, analytics, and security. By leveraging Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Cazena brought their innovative services to market quickly, responding to a critical need. As a result, Cazena's Big Data as a Service on Azure is increasingly being adopted by enterprises.
Do you have a story about how you've used Azure that you'd like to share with your fellow Azure Newsletter readers? Submit your story and you could see it here! | | | | Free e-book download: Cutting Right to the Code | Dread all those tasks you have to do before you can start coding? Check out this hands-on mobile development e-book with code samples and example apps to see how to cut right to the code with Azure.
 | | | | | | | | | Logic Apps management and tooling |
Azure Friday's Scott Hanselman learns about the powerful management and tooling capabilities that help you develop and debug Azure Logic Apps either by using the Azure portal or from within Visual Studio using a Logic App Azure Resource Manager template. Watch now.
 | | | | | | | | | | Case study: Azure Logic Apps streamline marketing data integration |
To support Microsoft marketing efforts, Microsoft IT manages data orchestration from more than 120 data sources, many hosted in Azure. Integrating data from disparate sources into custom data analysis solutions can be costly and inefficient. But with Azure Logic Apps, we have created data access solutions built from modular, reusable, configurable tasks. Read the case study. | | | | See how Microsoft deploys production workloads with Azure Resource Manager |
In this video, learn how Microsoft IT adopted Azure Resource Manager to enable new levels of self-service and infrastructure as code through streamlined resource provisioning. And see how we are using shared repositories to distribute templates in Azure. | | | | Microsoft Tech Summit is coming to you—register today |
Attend a free two-day technical training event to build your cloud and infrastructure skills. Discover how our enterprise solutions can help you be more successful and productive—and add value to your organization—through more than 70 training sessions, hands-on labs, and expert access with top Microsoft engineers. Don't miss out! Find an event near you or save the date to watch a keynote livestream. | | | | Internet of Things class: Containers using Azure and Docker |
In this 30-minute, hands-on virtual lab, you will be guided through the basics of installing, deploying, and managing a Docker container, as well as fundamentals for incorporating Docker on Hyper-V into your current development plans. Get started. | | | | Service Fabric Patterns and Practices |
Watch this course to learn about Azure Service Fabric from the pros who designed and built this platform as a service (PaaS). Find out how to design, develop, and operate your microservices on Service Fabric using best practices and proven, reusable patterns. Get your questions answered as you explore the blueprint to design your first cloud app. | | | | Web and Data Application Development with Visual Studio 2017 and Azure |
Experienced developers, check out the latest and greatest features announced during Connect(); // 2016 to learn what's new in Visual Studio 2017. In this comprehensive journey through the entire Microsoft stack, you'll get hands-on details from experts and work with more than 20 different products involved in the Microsoft stack and beyond to create an end-to-end solution. From .NET Core to Docker and even Linux, see how the pieces fit together. Watch now. | | | | Case study: Managing Azure ExpressRoute in a global enterprise |
When migrating to Azure, Microsoft IT knows it's important to ensure network connectivity between on-premises and virtual resources across our environment. Microsoft IT uses Azure ExpressRoute circuits as part of our network topology. See how we moved to a shared circuit model—reducing overhead and optimizing bandwidth. Read the case study. | | | | Join us for the complimentary Azure Marketplace virtual lab series |
If you're interested in solutions like Barracuda, Nasuni, Commvault, or Citrix but aren't sure how to get started, join us for a complimentary virtual lab. The Azure Marketplace virtual lab series will show you how to deploy these apps directly to Azure in 45 minutes or less through a hands-on demo. Learn more and register.
 | | | | Free resources to build your cloud career skills |
We're helping IT professionals who want to build and advance their career in cloud technology with the IT Pro Career Center and the IT Pro Cloud Essentials programs. Now available in 25 languages, these free programs offer cloud services, support, career mapping, industry expert advice, and more. Join now. | | | | Case study: Elevate business platforms to a higher level |
Read this new case study to learn how IT pros use Azure Cloud Services to save time and money. This case study is hosted by the IT Pro Cloud Essentials program—you can join for free for access to cloud services, offers, and support. Join IT Pro Cloud Essentials to read the case study. | | | | Case study: Reducing IT costs with Azure and Windows 10 |
Computer issues can impact employee productivity, significantly degrade the user experience, and reduce an organization's bottom line. To address these issues, Microsoft IT created a solution to automate troubleshooting and technical repair issues. Based on Azure, the Windows 10 app has been extended to iOS and Android devices—helping to reduce the cost of Helpdesk and other IT resources. Read more on IT Showcase.
 | | | | On demand: Cloud at Microsoft webinar |
IT Showcase brought together subject matter experts from our Cloud at Microsoft course to answer questions about how Microsoft IT designs, develops, implements, and monitors cloud solutions. In this session, they discuss cloud security, choosing between software as a service and platform as a service, Azure, the Internet of Things, and trends in cloud adoption. Watch the webinar now.
 | | | | Case study: Improving the commuter experience with Azure |
Drawing on data from regional transportation providers, our Transportation Hub app helps employees plan their commute and schedule transportation between campuses. It also provides insight into commuter behavior, so we can improve services and help reduce single-occupancy trips. Read the case study. | | | | IoT and Azure Machine Learning help predict the early onset of brain disease |
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis have something in common—they all have a thermodynamic pattern. Microsoft worked with med-tech company BTT to deliver an Internet of Things (IoT) and Azure Machine Learning proof of concept that will help diagnose the early onset of brain disease. Visit GitHub to see how it was done. | | | | | | | |  | | | The Dallas Zoo now knows what its elephants are really doing at night. You can, too. |
Zoos worldwide have been working overtime to provide larger, more natural, and more varied environments for perhaps the most intelligent species they exhibit: elephants. The Dallas Zoo has gone a step further, using a combination of RFID ankle bracelets and the Microsoft cloud to gather more data, and more accurate data, than was previously possible. It analyzes that data to better understand how elephants behave and how the zoo can better care for them.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Hosting firm cuts storage costs up to 50 percent with Windows Server 2016 |
A growing segment of the technology marketplace, managed hosting services enable organizations to focus on running their business instead of IT infrastructure. Hosters, an innovative provider of hosting and cloud solutions, is using software-defined datacenter technologies in Windows Server 2016 to optimize efficiency and transform its services.
Learn more | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Modernize your applications with Docker for Windows |
Microsoft and Docker have partnered to provide a modern platform for developers and IT pros to build, ship, and run distributed applications on-premises or in the cloud across both Windows and Linux operating systems. The Docker platform allows businesses to benefit from an agile container environment and standardize the enterprise application workflows with a single journey for all their applications, for a modern application environment. In this webinar, learn how to build and run your first Docker Windows Server container today. | | | | | | | | |  | | | Featured: Use the Nexpose Scan Engine to scan your Azure assets |
Rapid7's vulnerability management solution, Nexpose, reduces risk by dynamically collecting data and analyzing risk across vulnerabilities, configurations, and controls, from the endpoint to the cloud. Nexpose is engineered to enable IT security teams to identify, assess, and respond to critical change as it happens with Adaptive Security.
Visit Marketplace page | | | | |  | | | Featured: Do and achieve more in Azure with intelligent file infrastructure |
How are you dealing with file data deluge? Nasuni helps alleviate the burden of managing all your data with their Azure-based enterprise file services solution, providing distributed organizations with file storage, protection, and access. Nasuni offers local performance at cloud economics—saving up to 65 percent on total cost of ownership of your file storage. Nasuni File Storage system can be deployed as a virtual machine or physical appliance.
Visit Marketplace page | | | | |  | | | Featured: Commvault and Azure coauthor HarperCollins' cloud story |
In addition to following News Corp's "cloud first" strategy, moving to Azure cloud services enabled HarperCollins to consolidate its IT and switch to a more manageable OPEX commitment. Though Azure represented a learning curve for many in the organization, HarperCollins realized the Commvault platform it had bought five years previously would work the same in the cloud as it had on-premises. Learn more.
Visit Marketplace page | | | | |  | | | New: Zerto builds and manages hybrid cloud platforms with Azure support |
Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 enables organizations to implement their hybrid cloud strategy. One-to-many replication protects and recovers virtual machines in most environments, from on-premises datacenters to multiple targets simultaneously—including Azure—all with different service-level agreements (SLAs) and retention policies. 30-day journal "rollback" reduces backup constraints and storage costs. Learn more.
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| | | | | | | | | | Hi and happy 2017!
We hope that you were able to recharge over the holidays. All of us in Azure are back to work and excited for the possibilities for all of 2017. Last month, I came across this post on The Official Microsoft Blog: 17 for '17: Microsoft researchers on what to expect in 2017 and 2027. Researchers predict some interesting things for this year, including more robust algorithms for machine learning, as well as the potential for collaborative AI. What innovative projects do you have planned in Azure for 2017?
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