| | | | | | | | | | | Customer-submitted story: Unique Scheduling Solutions | Unique Scheduling Solutions (USS), a new SaaS company, uses Azure to host its FAST Scheduler. Designed to handle the most challenging scheduling environments, the FAST Scheduler has been adopted by manufacturers and project managers on three continents. Azure’s support helped USS grow and has given users confidence their data is secured and the service is reliable. The scheduling technology originated at NASA where it was used for mission planning. It succeeded there and at many Fortune 500 companies as an installed application. FAST has now moved to the Azure cloud where it’s affordable for use by small and mid-sized companies, and where they continue to offer their complex scheduling solution to large Fortune 500 companies.
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| | | Download: Web developer’s guide to help eliminate non-coding tasks and get code done faster | Minimizing your attack surface area with network-level security is one pain point that every web dev experiences. There are also necessary tasks like backups, scale planning, and logging that cost you precious time. This e-book helps web developers eliminate a number of non-coding tasks and get coding faster. Some key areas include identifying usage patterns and trends, hooking into content distribution networks, customizing search implementation, implementing your app’s user and access story, and configuring servers to scale out automatically. Download now.
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| | | Global Azure Bootcamp: A massive, worldwide community event | #GlobalAzure is an annual happening owned and run by Azure enthusiasts all around the world. On April 22, 2017, we go again! No community event is quite like this one. Several hundred user groups arrange free-to-attend events visited by more than ten thousand people eager to learn the latest and greatest about Azure. Local experts, including many MVPs, attend and present, and many events feature hands-on workshops. Join #GlobalAzure with your user group by signing up to create your event!
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| | | | IT Pro Cloud Journey story: Meet Cheryl |
Cheryl is a Solutions Architect SharePoint working in technology consulting in the Netherlands. Watch this video to learn how Cheryl’s transition to a cloud technology role saved her time, giving her more opportunity to innovate. To learn more about cloud careers and the paths you can take, visit the Microsoft IT Pro Career Center.
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Create a path to career advancement and increase your skills by activating your IT Pro Cloud Essentials benefits. Joining is free. Get hands-on Azure experience with a $25 USD credit for 12 months ($300 USD value), plus extended trials of Office 365 and more. Join now. | | |
| CXO Summit streaming live |
CXO Summit is sold out, but that doesn’t mean you need to miss out on the action! Learn how to leverage the power of technology and innovation by watching our live stream on March 29, 2017, or on demand after the stream. Register today.
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| Watch the Microsoft Tech Summit keynote live from Copenhagen |
If you can’t join us at Microsoft Tech Summit in person, don’t miss out! On March 30, 2017, at 10:00 AM CEST (UTC+2), keynote speaker Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Client and Mobility, will take the stage in Copenhagen. Tune in to the live broadcast to find out how the Microsoft Cloud can help you stay competitive in today’s digital transformation landscape. Save the date to watch the live stream, or watch it on-demand later. | | |
| Join us for Microsoft Data Amp on April 19, 2017 |
Microsoft Data Amp is a new event that helps you and your teams unlock the potential of data—on your terms. Create intelligent applications using preferred tools and languages, improve productivity and collaboration with stakeholders, and problem-solve alongside a diverse and engaged community. Watch live on April 19, 2017, at 8:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7). If you can’t make it live, content will be available on demand after the event. | | |
| TechTalk: Harnessing the Power of Intelligent Data & App Development |
TechTalk gives senior IT, data, and development professionals the opportunity to learn about Microsoft’s latest data and app development solutions as well as how to turn data and intelligent apps into valuable strategic assets for their organizations. Specific topics presented by Microsoft engineers and experts include SQL on Linux; big data and analytics apps; software as a service (SaaS) and line of business apps; and DevOps. Register for one of the 15 event locations across the United States.
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| Join us for the complimentary Azure Marketplace virtual lab series |
If you're interested in solutions like Veeam, DataStax, or Cisco 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.
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| Free online course: Managing Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure - Getting Started |
If you’re an IT pro ready to embrace Azure, this course will help you hit the cloud running with practical skills and knowledge you need to do your job with confidence. Demo-based modules cover foundational concepts, common tools and techniques, and best practices that cut through the complexity. They’re your road map to creating and managing automatable, scalable, and secured infrastructure on Azure. Start the course today. | | |
| Cloud Cover: Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code |
In this episode, learn about an Azure Tools extension that lets developers create and access Azure resources from within Visual Studio code.
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| Case study: Analyzing Azure inventory data to optimize resources and reduce risk |
Microsoft IT ditched conventional processes for managing network resources in the cloud in favor of an Azure asset inventory. The result? Reduced costs and risk and improved security, visibility, and compliance. This technical case study details their approach and shares insights that can help you implement a similar solution to optimize your cloud resources. Read the case study on IT Showcase.
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| Case study: Azure resource inventory helps manage operational efficiency and compliance |
An increase in cloud resources brings unique challenges to IT professionals that conventional processes can’t overcome. To rise above them, Microsoft IT created an Azure resource inventory that improves operational efficiency and reduces risk through increased visibility. Read more on IT Showcase.
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| A Christmas story: Azure delivers failover joy at Microsoft Stores |
For Navaneetha Krishnan Thankanadar, a happy 2016 holiday season came down to exactly 23 minutes in the middle of a chilly night in November. Read how using Azure as a failover helped one man’s Microsoft Stores cope with hordes of shoppers over the holiday period. Read more on IT Showcase.
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More people than ever are looking for greener solutions. For single-family homeowners, cutting energy use is an easy goal to achieve and measure. For example, a single change such as taking shorter showers will be reflected on next month’s energy bill. But it’s a bit more complicated for owners of apartment buildings.
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CarMax, the largest used car retailer in the United States, is transforming itself into a digital business to address the needs of today’s connected consumers. With more car shopping happening online and on mobile phones, CarMax re-architected its website using Azure platform services to deliver a faster response to the 16 million people who visit its website each month and to speed the development of new digital services.
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| | |  | | | Leveraging hybrid cloud infrastructures to improve availability |
Azure empowers IT teams to leverage cost-efficient and easy-to-deploy public cloud services, which extend datacenter operations into hybrid cloud environments. By combining the hybrid cloud with modern, virtualized availability solutions, organizations can help reduce costs, increase agility, improve recovery times, and achieve data protection, backup, and recovery best practices. Download this free, Veeam-sponsored TechTarget white paper. | | |
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| | |  | | | Trust Episerver to deliver digital content, commerce, and marketing using Azure |
The Azure Traffic Manager allows Episerver to solve this problem by providing Domain Name System-level traffic control. If Traffic Manager detects that the main datacenter is offline, it directs traffic to an identical fallback service in another datacenter, which automatically scales up to match the current load and scales back down once the main datacenter is back up. Meet your scaling demands and try out Episerver's Azure Traffic Manager today. | | |
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| | |  | | | Featured: Flexible and cost-effective data management with NetApp ONTAP Cloud for Azure |
An Azure cloud version of the NetApp ONTAP software offers superior management of your data in the Azure cloud. Spin up new instances quickly and manage your data in Azure as if it were on-premises. Launch your 30-day trial today and get started by quickly adding a remote disaster recovery destination for your data, or enable rapid testing and developing by moving data between locations in a matter of minutes.
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SoftNAS Cloud is a virtual storage appliance that runs on Azure compute and replaces your on-premises NAS, providing enterprise-class security, data protection, and high availability while supporting NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and AFP. Don’t re-architect your legacy apps when moving them to Azure. It scales from terabytes to petabytes, extending the 5 TB Azure file storage limit. See why Fortune 500 companies to SMBs trust their data with SoftNAS.
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You may remember the launch of Microsoft Philanthropies last year, a three-year initiative to donate $1 billion USD in cloud computing resources to nonprofit organizations and researchers around the world. There is an update posted with exciting results so far—more than $650 million USD was donated in 2016! If you have or know of a research project that could benefit, applications are due by April 15, 2017, on the Microsoft Azure for Research website.
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