| | | | | | | | | | | Featured customer-submitted story: BARBRI | "After piloting Azure for over a year, we made the decision to begin migrating our production servers to Azure leading to the eventual closure of our two colocation datacenters. My initial estimates show that we will save in excess of $1.2 million USD annually since we are a seasonal business and Azure will give us the ability to downsize during the slow periods. We expect to complete the migration process in the coming year." –Mark Kaplan, Director IT, BARBRI Inc.
 | | | | Develop in the cloud with best-in-industry protection against IP risks | We're committed to fostering a community and a business environment that values and helps protect your investments in the cloud—that's why we're announcing Microsoft Azure IP Advantage. Azure IP Advantage provides the industry's most comprehensive protection against intellectual property (IP) risks with uncapped indemnification and offers access to a portfolio of thousands of Microsoft patents. With Azure IP Advantage, developers can focus on writing code without worrying about lawsuits. Learn more in this video from Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft or visit our website.
 | | | | Free report: Open Source Powers Enterprise Digital Transformation | | Here's a resource to help you encourage your organization to adopt open-source technologies. In the report, Open Source Powers Enterprise Digital Transformation, Forrester explores how enterprises are including open-source technologies as part of their broader business strategy. The report covers the benefits of open source in collaboration, efficiency, innovation, and talent retention. | | | | Announcing a new Azure Marketplace experience | In the newly redesigned Azure Marketplace experience, you can now find and deploy a product with a single click; discover products using predictive search, category filters, and top recommendations; deep dive into products using technical documentation, pricing information, and publisher recommendations; and get hands-on experience using Test Drive. Learn more on the Azure Blog.
| | | | | | | | | Join us for the complimentary Azure Marketplace virtual lab series |
Are you interested in partner solutions like Veeam, Mesosphere, Red Hat, or Barracuda but aren't sure how to get started? Join us for a complimentary virtual lab. The Azure Marketplace virtual lab series covers how to deploy these apps directly to Azure in 45 minutes or less through a hands-on demo. Register now.
 | | | | | | | | | | Create a path to career advancement |
Increase your cloud knowledge with Pluralsight and Microsoft Virtual Academy training courses when you join Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials. Joining is free and provides IT implementers with hands-on experience so they can succeed. Join now. | | | | Cloud is driving next-generation IT skills |
Cloud computing requires new IT skills. IT professionals will need to consider the impact of IT trends and focus on developing skills that will be critically important in the near future. Learn more from IDC in the Market Spotlight video. Watch now. | | | | Build your cloud and infrastructure skills at Microsoft Tech Summit |
Attend a free, two-day technical training event with top Microsoft engineers. Discover how Microsoft's enterprise solutions can help you be more successful and productive, and add value to your organization. Take advantage of more than 70 training sessions, hands-on labs, and expert access. Find an event near you or save the date to watch a keynote livestream. Don't miss out! | | |
Watch here for a practical, hands-on introduction to Azure for developers. Expert instructors Susan Ibach of Microsoft and Jeff Prosise from Wintellect fill you in on the details you need on Azure Storage, Stream Analytics, Machine Learning, Microsoft Cognitive Services, containers, Docker, and much more. | | | | Cloud Cover: Azure Analysis Services |
In this episode, learn about Azure Analysis Services, now available as a fully managed service in Azure. It helps you manage data modeling and create BI solutions from tabular data in the cloud or on-premises.
 | | | | Case study: Data analytics and smart buildings increase comfort and energy efficiency |
Smart-energy buildings at Microsoft have improved energy efficiency by 15 percent. But there's so much more to it. Using energy-smart building software and tools, the company can proactively monitor climate to keep employees comfortable and productive, identify energy-saving opportunities, prioritize maintenance work, and reduce operational costs—all while reducing its environmental footprint. Read more on IT Showcase.
 | | | | Digital transformation and the Internet of Things |
In this on-demand webinar, learn about the business value 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. | | | | Case study: Using IoT devices and data analytics to create a safer workplace at Microsoft |
Security cameras, alarms, panic buttons, access control systems—failure of any of these "smart" security devices at Microsoft is not an option. Using System Center, a first-of-its-kind solution, the company protects its workers and assets by proactively managing 25,000 Internet of Things (IoT) security devices across more than 800 buildings. Read more on IT Showcase.
 | | | | What organizations need to succeed |
Where do organizations start in digital transformation, and if your organization has already started, how do you move faster and further ahead? In this webinar, Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Constellation Research, as well as author of Disrupting Digital Business explains why digital transformation must be every organization's immediate focus and imperative. We'll also reveal keys to transformational success, including the roles of company culture, data-driven decision making, and innovative technology. Register to view on demand. | | | | Case study: Optimizing resource efficiency in Azure |
When it works at Microsoft, we feel confident it will work for our customers. And using Azure to optimize cloud usage and save money worked for us. Read more on IT Showcase.
 | | | | ASP.NET Core 1.0 cross-platform |
If you are ready to build and deploy ASP.NET Core 1.0 apps on Mac or Linux, you'll want to watch this course! Our team of experts show you how. You'll get the basics of ASP.NET Core and find out what tools are available on Mac and Linux before exploring more advanced topics, including deploying on a Linux server, getting started with containers and Docker, and much more. View the course. | | | | Maximizing your mobile budget: Planning for long-term ROI |
Many businesses struggle to answer a simple question: "How much should my mobile apps cost?" Without a solid answer, dev teams often make planning decisions in the dark, wondering if they spent too much or are getting blindsided by unexpected costs. Learn how to project accurate costs for the lifetime of an app, use best practices to predict and help control mobile dev and maintenance costs, map business goals to technology decisions, and choose a development platform that will provide the best long-term ROI. Register for this webinar. | | | | DevOps webinar: Shipping five-star apps with mobile DevOps |
Register for this on-demand webinar to learn how to improve your apps with mobile DevOps processes and continuous integration; automate app testing and debugging on more than 2,000 real devices and 400 configurations; and continuously distribute your apps, collect feedback, and release updates and new features. | | | | ESG: Why the cloud should be part of your data protection strategy |
Check out this white paper from ESG to see how IT leaders and their organizations are handling their changing data protection needs, and get insight into choosing a cloud backup solution. Download the free report.
 | | | | The new post-breach approach to endpoint security |
In this on-demand webinar, learn how Windows Defender can help you better detect, investigate, and respond to threats lurking in and around your network. The best way to thwart a breach is to assume a breach. A new post-breach security solution approach is required. Are you protected? In this webinar, we discuss why having a post-breach approach is necessary, how Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection provides post-breach support, and how to start a trial of Windows Defender ATP for your organization. | | | | Revolutionize your app business with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 |
Learn how Microsoft SQL Server solutions are built to adapt, so you can build differentiated, intelligent apps that will delight your customers. Learn about the latest updates to SQL Server with SQL Server 2016 SP1 and SQL Server vNext; how SQL Server 2016 can help you add intelligence to your apps to make your offerings more competitive; and about our SQL Server 2016 Accelerator program that offers real-world advice from our technical experts. Find out how you can get access to technical and go-to-market resources to upgrade or migrate your applications to SQL Server 2016. | | | | Microsoft SQL Server on Linux: World-class RDBMS, open-source enterprise environment |
Today's IT organizations must contend with multiple data types and many development languages; work within a mix of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments; and reduce operational costs. In this on-demand webinar, learn how to choose the best platform for your data and applications. Microsoft SQL Server is bringing its world-class relational database management system (RDBMS) to open-source enterprise ecosystems with SQL Server on Linux. Learn what's next for SQL Server on Linux and how to determine which SQL Server edition to deploy. | | | | See why Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is loved by users and trusted by IT |
Join us for a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security overview. Digital transformation is changing how companies work every day, and this can introduce new security challenges. Enterprise Mobility + Security can help your people stay productive while you keep your company information safer as you embrace mobility and the cloud. | | | | | | | |  | | | Fujitsu earns customers' trust by anticipating cloud needs |
Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand is a leading managed services provider. Thousands of organizations, both commercial and government, depend on it to reliably run and manage their critical business applications in the cloud. Fujitsu uses Microsoft Operations Management Suite as a predictive analytics tool to monitor and forecast Azure capacity needs for each customer, so critical applications can run cost-effectively and without interruption.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Training company takes on the world from the cloud |
Lobster Ink provides online training for thousands of hotels around the world, with high-quality, consistent, compelling training on everything from how to make a bed to how to make a Bloody Mary cocktail. Lobster Ink rewrote its entire learning platform for cloud delivery using Azure platform services. Now, the Lobster Ink training platform can scale to millions of simultaneous learners from all over the world.
Learn more | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Unlock cloud's agility by automating secured connectivity to Azure with SD-WAN |
Riverbed SteelConnect automates orchestration of secured connectivity into and between Azure networks. Software-defined control via policy-based management helps ensure that security and performance persists from the mobile or static user to the app server, regardless of network health. With Azure providing agility, efficiency, and security, SteelConnect is the natural next step for agility, efficiency, performance, and security for your network.
Visit Marketplace page | | | | | | | | |  | | | Featured: Esri chooses Azure and Mesosphere DC/OS to build real-time, predictive mapping |
Learn how geospatial intelligence leader Esri built a 21st-century mapping solution while slashing operational costs, reducing complexity, and accelerating time to market, all while providing customers with unprecedented performance and scalability. Esri's infrastructure is powered by the Azure cloud, Azure Container Service, and Mesosphere DC/OS. Read how Esri's real-time and big data deployments were reduced from weeks to minutes.
Visit Marketplace page | | | | |  | | | Featured: Simplify Windows 10 on Azure deployments with Citrix XenDesktop Essentials Service |
XenDesktop Essentials simplifies Windows 10 migration, expedites desktop deployment, and streamlines ongoing management at scale while delivering a rich user access experience from any device. As the first Citrix Cloud service to be available exclusively in Azure Marketplace, Citrix and Microsoft deliver a single interface for configuring and managing the new XenDesktop Essentials Service and the associated Azure infrastructure, side by side. See how XenDesktop Essentials can simplify your Windows 10 migration on Azure.
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It's always exciting to hear about the different industries that use Azure to help inform decision-making processes. In January, I read a blog post about a company that's developing apps to help farmers, and they're using Azure IoT Suite and the Azure cloud platform to help provide data-based predictions. And this is just the start. Read more—maybe you'll come away inspired to create an app that will help your industry figure out new efficiencies!
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