In the past 6 months, I’ve spoken to customers around the world about the challenges associated with providing secure and seamless access for a remote workforce. Organizations need to maximize user productivity while safeguarding the business from cyber threats, but they also must reduce costs in light of today’s difficult economic conditions. To help you…
DetailsBusinesses around the world have been harnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce operational expenses, power breakthrough customer experiences, and create new revenue streams. Now, faced with the unprecedented challenges of our times, businesses are also harnessing IoT to create safer workplaces as employees return to work, reduce expenses to weather downturns, reduce environmental…
DetailsWe live in demanding times, and change is happening faster than ever before. Data has always provided important insights into changing contexts, but to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape, adding layers of intelligence where AI advances decision making and applies predictive analytics at the edge to unlock new possibilities is pivotal. At Microsoft Ignite, we…
DetailsHowdy folks, I’m excited to join all of you tuning into this year’s digital edition of Microsoft Ignite. Over the past months, we have been inspired by your resilience as many of you adapted to remote work, with identity at the heart of how you secure access and protect your users. Later this morning, my…
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The global situation today has truly transformed how we communicate with each other. While we woke up one day and the world was different, business hasn’t stopped. Customers are still needing to connect with businesses. Whether it’s providing real-time virtual assistance or enabling curb side pickup we’ve had to rethink how we engage without physical…
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On our journey to become carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft is continually innovating and advancing the efficiency and sustainability of our cloud infrastructure, with a commitment to use 100 percent renewable energy in all of our datacenters and facilities by 2025. Today, we are taking a significant step toward that goal, revealing plans for…
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In the modern workforce, the emergence of hybrid cloud deployments and collaborative applications make it easy for employees to share information, data, and files with other internal as well as external users, helping them collaborate easily with vendors, business partners, contractors and customers. Managing all the access across different resources – Office groups, Teams, SharePoint…
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As businesses continue to adapt to the realities of the current environment, operational resilience has never been more important. As a result, a growing number of customers have accelerated a move to the cloud, using Microsoft Azure NetApp Files to power critical pieces of their IT infrastructure, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, SAP applications, and mission-critical…
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Azure Files is a distributed cloud file system serving file system SMB and REST protocols generally available since 2015. Customers love how Azure Files enables them to easily lift and shift their legacy workloads to the cloud without any modifications or changes in technology. SMB works great on both Windows and UNIX operating systems for…
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Hello! In today’s “Voice of the Customer” blog, Lyvon Garth, CISO, Durham County, Aaron Stone, Assistant Director and members of his team provide details about how they use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and F5 BIG-IP APM to apply consistent security policies across their hybrid environment. With half the county workforce working remotely, it was…
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