| | | | | | | | | | | Customer-submitted story: QuickLoad | "We developed quickload.com, which is like a taxi app for the trucking industry. All the infrastructure is in Azure, and it provides the monitoring and analytics that we need to run the business, as well as storage capabilities that let us save all images in the cloud." —Alex Iuspa, Systems/Solution Architect, QuickLoad
Do you have a story you want to share with your fellow Azure Newsletter readers? Submit your story and you could see it here! | | | | Inspire 2017: New cloud services for partners to enable digital transformation | | Last year, we initiated an Azure co-sell program to provide comprehensive sales and marketing support for partners building solutions with Azure. This proved successful in just the first six months. To further the Azure co-sell program impact, we're making additional investments over the next 12 months. We'll be making it easier for partners to modernize their customers' existing business apps and build new ones with a new program we are calling ISV Cloud Embed. Learn more, and catch up on other Inspire 2017 announcements with on-demand content. | | | | | | | Azure Friday: Azure mobile app overview |
Azure Friday's Scott Hanselman learns how the Azure mobile app keeps you connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. Check status, metrics, and important metadata or get the latest service health and metric alerts. The app is there when you need it and helps you resolve common issues and perform simple tasks when away from a computer. Watch now.
 | | | | | | | | | | Take free instructor-led classes |
Learn from experts with live, hands-on training and practice with your peers. Try Azure Backup, Archive, and Disaster Recovery to learn how to protect your data and apps. Space is limited so reserve your virtual seat now. | | | | On-demand Azure Marketplace virtual hands-on labs |
It doesn't matter if you're new to Azure Marketplace 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. Sign up for one or more complimentary on-demand labs, and get hands-on experience with popular solutions from Commvault, Chef, Veeam, and others. Learn more and register. | | | | Data Exposed: Building search apps with Azure Search and AzSearch.js |
In this Data Exposed video on Channel 9, learn about a JavaScript library that makes incorporating and building Azure Search into your apps much easier. Watch now.
 | | | | Course: Architecting distributed cloud apps |
Are you architecting distributed cloud apps? "Embrace failure" (in distributed cloud apps) with a technology-agnostic look at cloud computing concepts and how they relate to one another. Learn about incorporating resiliency into your code, and explore microservices and containers, networking and messaging communication, as well as versioning. Plus, get the details on upgrading, configuration, data storage services, disaster recovery, and more. Watch now.
 | | | | Case study: Building cloud apps using the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure |
Microsoft IT created the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure to help build security best practices into enterprise cloud app development and operations. See how we're using cloud technologies to deliver continuous, rapid, and incremental value to business. Read more on IT Showcase. | | | | Case study: Streamlining mobile app publishing using Azure Logic Apps |
To transform the process of certifying mobile apps and publishing them to our internal portal, Microsoft IT built Enterprise Mobile App Publishing (EMAP). EMAP uses automated workflows created in Azure Logic Apps and gives us the ability to submit apps to publishing through HockeyApp. Read about this implementation at Microsoft.
 | | | | Data Exposed: Understanding the U-SQL batch job execution lifetime |
Find out what happens when a U-SQL job is submitted and processed by Azure Data Lake Analytics. Check out the Data Exposed video on Channel 9.
 | | | | Case study: Managing the enterprise with Azure Application Insights and Azure Log Analytics |
Find out how Microsoft IT uses Azure Application Insights, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Automation to monitor system health and usage, policy compliance, and security in our Azure and on-premises environments. We've created guidance for deploying Azure-based monitoring that gives our internal business groups effective cloud-based, automated monitoring across Azure tenants, subscriptions, and resource groups. Read the technical case study. | | | | Case study: Microsoft IT uses analytics and data science to enhance the user experience |
When it comes to technology, user experience is everything. At Microsoft, we're focused on enhancing the user experience not by product or service, but across all of them. See how machine learning and Azure technologies give us the insights to take a holistic approach. Read more on IT Showcase about this implementation at Microsoft.
 | | | | Case study: Microsoft IT reinvents sales processing and financial reporting with Azure |
Moving the company's revenue reporting platform to Azure is giving Microsoft IT the opportunity to redesign the platform's infrastructure and functionality. With the major components in Azure, we've already seen how Spark Streaming and Azure Data Factory have made dramatic improvements in the platform's performance and scalability. Read the technical case study. | | | | Case study: Migrating an open source PaaS solution to Azure |
Connecting young people with inspiration has motivated Modern Muse. Now, leveraging our cloud technology and support infrastructure, Microsoft IT migrated Modern Muse's open-source systems to Azure, giving the charitable organization a modern engineering solution with the scalability, agility, and flexibility to pursue their vision. Follow the transition process and benefit from lessons learned. Read more on IT Showcase.
 | | | | Course: Microsoft Azure Identity |
Take this self-paced course to understand important concepts related to Microsoft Azure identity. Learn what makes Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) different from on-premises Active Directory, as well as differences in managing users and groups and implementing custom domains in Azure AD. Explore directories and tenants, as well as Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, which lets you add a critical second security layer for verification of user sign-ins and transactions. | | | | Case study: Protecting files in the cloud with Azure Information Protection |
At Microsoft, our data protection is in the cloud. That means between 2,500 and 3,000 licensed users at Microsoft can securely and seamlessly access data every minute of every workday. It also reduced our service administration by 66 percent. Read about how Azure made data protection more scalable, easier to manage, and more cost-effective where it was invented—at Microsoft.
 | | | | Case study: Managing user identities and secure access at Microsoft |
How do you create a single-user identity for authentication and a unified experience when you have 114,000 employees, 276,000 global identities, 274,000 partner identities, and 15 million authentication requests per month? We do it every day with a hybrid approach with Azure. Read more on IT Showcase.
 | | | | | | | |  | | | How cheaper, faster storage helps this nonprofit do more for troubled youth |
Youth Villages is a United States nonprofit that helps more than 22,000 emotionally troubled children and their families live successfully each year. It recently replaced an overextended, expensive storage area network with a solution based on Storage Spaces Direct technology in Windows Server 2016. Find out how Youth Villages used this solution to slash its storage costs in half, saving $150,000 USD, and multiplying storage performance by a factor of 30.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Local government adopts a hybrid cloud to ensure it's always there for citizens |
A system outage in a government agency can have dire consequences for citizens. To ensure operational continuity and meet its budget, the Somerset County Council replaced its backup and recovery technologies with a hybrid cloud solution. Now it can restore files and systems in less time, and IT staff can provision infrastructure that supports backups at least three weeks faster. The new solution also costs less to run than previous technologies.
Learn more | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Quest provides supercharged monitoring and cost prediction with VROOM |
Quest VROOM accelerates the performance of your entire virtual infrastructure, transforms the app experience for users, and helps predict and control license and hardware costs. You can maximize resource utilization and improve virtual app performance across hybrid environments. Leverage Azure easily with assurance that you will understand the cost and benefits.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Enhancing the Microsoft Office 365 experience at global scale with DataStax and Azure |
Microsoft recently deployed DataStax Enterprise (DSE) on Azure to better understand user behavior and experience for its fastest selling product, Office 365. Powered by Apache Cassandra and leveraging the global scale, hybrid deployment capabilities, and ease of integration on Azure, DSE is the always-on data platform that ensures your apps scale reliably and effortlessly while delivering actionable insight in real-time.
Learn more | | | | |  | | | Featured: Build and release software faster with JFrog Artifactory SaaS on Azure |
Developers and DevOps engineers: Get complete control, insight, and management of binaries throughout the software development lifecycle. JFrog Artifactory SaaS on Azure is a hosted solution that gives you transparency and control of the entire build and process. It's all driven by the power of cloud-based development, giving you flexible release scalability, automated backups, service-level agreement (SLA)-based support, and more.
Visit Marketplace page | | | | |  | | | Featured: Sign up to take a free Red Hat Open Shift Test Drive |
Find out how you can build, deploy, and manage containerized services and apps with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Azure. With a free Test Drive you'll get to use OpenShift in a pre-provisioned, ready-to-go environment—no Azure subscription needed.
Sign up to start your test drive today | | | | |  | | | New: Teradata bolsters analytics and database capabilities for Azure |
Teradata brings powerful advanced analytics capabilities to the Azure community. Teradata Database, coupled with the recent launch on Azure of Teradata Aster Analytics, is a multi-genre advanced analytics solution to uncover insights across all data types. Plus, Teradata Database can help customers design, implement, and manage their analytics ecosystems.
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I know that it's already been mentioned at the top of this month's newsletter, but I want to reiterate our excitement around Azure Stack, which is now ready to order. We hope Azure Stack provides you a consistent experience and enables you and your company to choose the hybrid deployment that works best for you. Take a look at the videos on the Hybrid Cloud Solutions webpage, starting with our VP, Julia White, on overcoming complexity and optimizing existing assets.
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