| | | | | | | Customer-submitted story: GabrielsVault | | Launched last year on Azure, GabrielsVault was created as a new generational message platform. The grief that follows someone's death can be a lonely time for a spouse, child, or others left behind. GabrielsVault helps users remind family and friends of humor, shared stories, or offer guidance and direction into the future. Users can create unique messages, store them securely on Azure, and automatically deliver messages into the future either on a specific date and time or following their death using the automated Legacy Delivery process built on Azure. With GabrielsVault, a legacy of stories can last for generations.
 | | | | Download e-book: Azure Virtual Datacenter | | Make the most of Azure capabilities while respecting your existing security and networking policies with the Azure Virtual Datacenter approach. As IT organizations and business units deploy enterprise workloads to the cloud, they must balance governance with developer agility. The Azure Virtual Datacenter model helps you achieve this balance with an emphasis on governance. Download now.
 | | | | Download guide: Azure Stack: Building an end-to-end validation environment | | This guide helps you plan for an end-to-end Azure Stack validation environment using the Azure Stack Development Kit. It covers many of the core concepts required to build a functional Azure Stack environment, including subscriptions, services, quotas, plans, and offers. You'll learn about the constructs and configurable options available in Azure Stack, and how to tackle the key considerations of planning a successful implementation. Download now.
 | | | | Azure Application Architecture Guide | | This guide shows you how to design scalable, resilient, and highly available apps, based on proven practices from successful customer engagements. Read the guide on the Azure Architecture Center and use the following diagram to understand the structure of the guide.
 | | | | | | | Help organize Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 | | April 21, 2018, is the sixth annual Global Azure Bootcamp event. Hundreds of local user groups join and more than 10,000 attendees learn about Azure together for one day. This is a testament to the power of community coming together. Join with your user group and organize a location with your friends.
 | | | | | | | | Learn new Azure technologies in under an hour with Azure Essentials. First, watch a short video, then apply what you learned in a live, guided lab. When you're ready, start a free product trial in a live environment. If you're an AWS professional who wants to know how to get started with Azure, or if you want to learn infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Relational Database options, or DevOps with Azure, then Azure Essentials is the quickest way to get started. | | | | Build your cloud skills with the latest in Azure | | Microsoft Tech Summit, a free technical learning event for IT professionals and developers, is coming to a city near you. Discover the latest trends, tools, and product roadmaps, and meet with the experts who build and run Microsoft cloud services. Whether you're developing innovative apps or delivering optimized solutions, Microsoft Tech Summit gives you two days of learning, networking, and skill-building. Find a free event near you.
 | | | | Try Azure Functions and Visual Studio in a hands-on lab | | The Azure Functions and Visual Studio lab provides a zero-friction environment for building serverless apps using Azure Functions and Visual Studio. The environment comes pre-installed with Visual Studio and the required tools. You don't have to install anything and can simply dive into the productive developer experience. Try it on the Microsoft hands-on lab platform. | | | | Bring your app to the cloud with serverless Azure Functions | | Stop/Start VMs during off-hours | | Take advantage of a cost-saving tool originally developed for Microsoft internal use, and now made available on the Azure Marketplace. With the Start/Stop VMs during off-hours solution, you can save money by making sure your virtual machines (VMs) are off when not being used. Leveraging this low-cost, serverless service helps optimize your Azure costs, while automating time-consuming tasks. | | | | Course: Building an IT Certification Study Lab | | If you've already watched the Mastering Microsoft Certification Exam Prep course, take the next step and explore the theory and practice of how to build an IT certification test lab environment as part of the preparation for Microsoft Certification exams. Learn to build the practice lab and assemble its building blocks, including host computer and evaluation software. The course takes you through the steps to make it easy to reuse the lab environment, and you'll find out how to build the entire practice lab in the cloud or in a hybrid environment. View the course. | | | | Case study: Cloud security at Microsoft | | Security in a virtual environment is significantly different than in an on-premises datacenter. See how Microsoft handled the transition to the cloud, and some DevOps best practices we've adopted for cloud security. Watch now.
 | | | | Course: Mastering Microsoft Cognitive Services, Part 6: Translation APIs | | Part 6 of the Microsoft Cognitive Services course series explores Translation APIs, which are included in Cognitive Services and backed by machine learning. They can help translate text and speech into other languages—often required for collaboration in today's business world. Watch this course to learn how to use Cognitive Services to build apps that bridge the language barrier and enable users to communicate in real time. Find all the courses in the series. | | | | Optimize the planet: That means PaaS, too! | | Read why service engineering manager Rick Ochs encourages companies to not overlook platform as a service (PaaS) when moving to the cloud. "No matter what technology decisions you make, how your application utilizes resources is now a major factor in your design," says Ochs.
 | | | | Case study: Refactoring for the cloud | | See how Microsoft transformed operations using data analytics, Power BI, and the connective power of cloud computing, making processing more than a terabyte of data each day far more manageable. Watch now.
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| | | Petroleum company runs SAP on Azure, trims costs by 40 percent | | GRISARD-Gruppe is a leading Swiss petroleum company, bitumen and asphalt manufacturer, and real estate management firm. The company made a strategic decision to migrate all its business apps to Azure. By moving SAP apps to Azure, GRISARD has reduced costs by 40 percent and dramatically improved SAP performance.
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| | | Office supplier moves SAP Hybris to Azure, expects 50 percent lower datacenter costs | | ADVEO distributes office supplies to resellers in nine countries across western Europe. Manual processes are common in the industry, and resellers could take up to 48 hours to confirm delivery of inventory, and testing IT business process changes required advance capacity planning. In response, ADVEO migrated its SAP Hybris Commerce solution to run on Azure to support a dynamic supply chain and a testing cycle of hours, not weeks.
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| | | Genetec Clearance, built on Azure, simplifies investigations by facilitating collaboration between multiple internal and external stakeholders throughout an investigation. It helps users collect digital evidence from disparate sources and securely store and manage it in a centralized location. Genetec Clearance can also eliminate delays and costs associated with manual processes, and facilitate sharing of evidence while maintaining chain of custody.
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| | | Cohesity and Azure: Hybrid cloud data fabric for secondary storage | | Enterprises are struggling to take control of their secondary data in an increasingly hybrid cloud world. Cohesity and Azure have teamed up to deliver a hybrid cloud data fabric that can help you take control of your secondary storage. The joint solution lets you use Cohesity and Azure for data protection, long-term archival, dev/test, and disaster recovery.
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| | | Grafana, the leading open source software for visualizing time series data, is now available on the Azure Marketplace. By deploying Grafana from the Marketplace you'll get a virtual machine with pre-installed Grafana dashboard and the official Azure metrics data source built by the team at Grafana Labs.
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| | | New: Couchbase scales on Azure to build a foundation for digital innovation | | With the Couchbase Data Platform on Azure, you get the best of both worlds—unmatched agility, competitive performance at scale, and the ease of management in a single platform combined with an enterprise-grade, infinitely scalable cloud. Couchbase and Azure empower organizations to create bigger and better experiences for web, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) apps.
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