Set up Azure Virtual Desktop in minutes to enable secure remote work. Provide the familiarity and compatibility of Windows 11 with the new scalable multi-session experience for your end users and save costs by using existing eligible Windows licenses. Read More...

When choosing a virtualization solution such as Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, you want to provide employees with the same experience they'd have on a local desktop or laptop—whether they're managing their inbox with Outlook, sharing files in OneDrive, or collaborating with colleagues on Microsoft Teams. Review the infographic for a handy checklist that includes choice of platform (including MacOS/iOS, HTML5, and Android), a like-local Microsoft Windows experience, containerized user profiles, and more. Read More...

Customers have changed more than we realize. They have a ton of access to information via social and digital channels, and they use it to make better, more informed decisions. How has selling changed as clients' research and engagement capabilities have become more digital and advanced? To compete effectively, businesses must take a more holistic approach to accelerate revenue outcomes by transforming selling with an intelligent, comprehensive digital sales collaboration platform. Tools like Dynamics 365, Office 365, Azure, and Power Platform work to integrate data and AI. Review the infographic to learn how Microsoft is approaching digital sales to integrate marketing, commerce, and sales to deliver modern customer experiences. Read More...

Adopting the tools and mindset of DevOps in the right manner can facilitate development efficiency, boost productivity, and increase the rate at which products can be brought to market. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you navigate the world of GitHub and Azure DevOps and share helpful tips to get started. Read More...

Edge computing may sound complex, however according to a new Forrester report, marketing and hype could be to blame. There are four types of edge computing, but there are no hard divisions between them, and the way vendors are using the term can make it hard to discern the subtle differences. The report’s author, Forrester VP Brian Hopkins, says: “It's best to think about the edges not as strictly physical division of a network but as broad categories of related solutions that have things in common and therefore have attracted different vendors. The four edges are a response to clients whom I always have to explain edge to because different vendors use the word to mean different things." Read More...

The story of modern computing began with mainframes and dumb terminals and ends (but not really) with PCs acting a bit like those terminals (with the real computing happening in the cloud). Now, thanks to the combination of the cloud and the web, the story continues with Microsoft Windows 365, built on Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, which streamlines virtualization and works across any device—even a Chromebook, iPad, or Android phone. It’s interesting how much the future resembles the past, while innovating on today’s technology. Read More...

In the last twenty years, application software has made the transition from a legacy DIY Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) model to a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Today, this same transformation is available for virtual desktops. Learn how steps in the journey to SaaS—such as simplifying IT operations and improving reliability—can enhance security, performance, and horizontal scalability. Read More...

Driven by the pandemic and technology that reduces the limitations of remote work, company culture is no longer confined to the four walls of the office. But that doesn’t mean that work culture has disappeared. Organizations are now faced with creating strong connections with remote workers. Learn about the three major challenges leaders need to address so workers feel engaged, productive, and inspired. Read More...

When diving into the world of DevOps tools, it’s important to remember that Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitHub each offer unique value and overlapping capabilities. They can be used separately or together, so there’s even a “why not both?” scenario. Learn the history of these two DevOps tools, the specific advantages of each, and how to get started using them. Read More...

Rapid digital shifts in the business market have forced organizations to up their cloud game and application services. Sales teams need to discover changes in customer intent and act quickly to remain competitive. Business apps such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform have been successful because of the pre-trained AI models within the application, which makes it easier to deliver in right time experiences (RTE). RTE are products, services and applications which provide the right information to the right person at the right time on their device of choice. To create RTEs, a company must connect real-time data, partner with, and open data via AI-driven analytics. Read More...

The pandemic forced the acceleration of the digitalization trend. As businesses and economies make the digital transformation, data and the ability to gain insights are at the heart of every successful organization. Get briefed on the 5 top updates leaders are interested in surrounding database innovation—from online and batch workload integration (or HTAP) to newer multi-model advances in technology such as AI, IoT, and beyond. Read More...

During the global disruption caused by COVID-19, Microsoft faced the same supply chain issues every company faced along with global work-from-home orders. That’s when the company’s Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) team took Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop to the next level, providing high-end virtual workstation capabilities for software development teams and making the solution more useful and relevant than ever. Each solution is tailor-made to a specific business need, with custom security for each. Read More...

Teams that adopt DevOps culture, practices, and tools become high-performing—building better products faster for greater customer satisfaction. This improved collaboration and productivity is essential to achieve business goals such as accelerating time to market, adapting to the market and competition, maintaining system stability and reliability, and improving the mean time to recovery. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you learn more about Azure DevOps with GitHub and Visual Studio from Microsoft. Read More...

With Azure Arc you can take advantage of elastic scale, consistent management, and cloud-style billing models. Work faster with Azure turnkey application services such as Web Apps, Function, and Logic Apps across clouds, data centers, and the edge. Sign up to stay connected! We’ll help you accelerate innovation across hybrid and multicloud environments with Azure Arc. Read More...

The technology industry has gone to great lengths to provide abstraction layers for every user to store, analyze, access, and retrieve data residing in cloud-based data repositories inside dedicated datacenters. Data democracy challenges the notion that every application requires its own database. It may make sense for data to be stored in silos, but they need to appear as one coherent source of information—and this is where cloud-based Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) comes into place. Read More...

 The global pandemic gave way to new priorities shaped by a year (and then some) of crisis. With the acceleration of hybrid work, sellers now understand they need to help customers be better buyers. But how? The shift in B2B buying has reconfigured B2B selling, and sellers can focus on connecting with customers through their preferred mechanism. Review the infographic to learn about individualizing selling at scale, including ways to unlock data to discover opportunities. Read More...

Global manufacturer Kohler had just begun implementing Microsoft 365 when the pandemic hit. With employees all over the world affected by new work-from-home mandates, the company turned to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (previously Windows Virtual Desktop). Kohler tailored its response to each country and addressed shortages of equipment by leveraging the Azure Virtual Desktop capabilities that enable employee-owned devices to connect to on-premises engineering systems as well as other work-critical resources. During the ramp up, some 600 devices a week were enrolled using Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Microsoft Intune, permitting a “bring your own device” approach while maintaining security standards. Read More...

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences maxxed-out its on-premises infrastructure, it turned to Microsoft Azure to expand its capacity into the cloud. It also leaned into Azure DevOps to improve collaboration between development and infrastructure teams and used Visual Studio to develop new streaming apps across Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and tvOS—delivering rich, responsive online experiences to its members across different devices and platforms. Read More...

As part of a larger digital transformation effort, financial services provider FIS was already moving its workforce to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop when COVID-19 forced the company to hasten their adoption. Within a week of deployment, FIS had about 6,000 users with around 1,500 concurrent Azure Virtual Desktop instances. Each environment can be tailored, which especially helps in-house developers gain quick access to the specialized tools they need. Staff can be onboarded and offboarded quickly without having to configure or decommission hardware, or even visit the office. Contingent staff receive temporary, project-specific access to everything they need for their assigned tasks. Management of security and privacy are simplified, and access to virtual resources can be monitored and audited by a centralized administration team. Read More...

Microsoft Azure Arc is a game-changer that gives customers choice and enables the continuous delivery of Kubernetes workloads from the cloud to the edge—at scale and as a service. Global medical supplier Siemens Healthineers developed new algorithms to assess lung damage in COVID-19 patients. Azure Arc enables them to quickly deploy and update these algorithms at scale across distributed environments globally, making it faster and easier to help patients. Read More...

Rx.Health created a collection of digital health solutions that make care navigation, patient monitoring, and engagement faster and more automated than ever before—on a much greater scale. Starting with Microsoft FastTrack for Azure, it mapped out a scalable cloud plan that included an Azure Data Lake for AI modeling and a combination of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB to track remote patient monitoring and patient engagement data across disparate sources. Now it’s realizing its goal of cost-effectively bringing more help to more people with Azure. Read More...

In today’s modern work environment, organizations are thinking about the right technology investment. Businesses are looking for hardware solutions where employees can remain productive, communicative, and secure from any location. More than ever, making smart investments can have a big impact on keeping businesses thriving. According to a new Forrester study*, Microsoft Surface and Microsoft 365 improve performance across three key areas of organizations: Help employees be more productive Help IT be more efficient Helps businesses stay secure and reduce costs Watch this video to discover a how Surface and Microsoft 365 can unlock new levels of productivity and drive long term value for your business. Read the full study to learn more. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/surface-it-pro-blog/maximizing-your-roi-from-microsoft-365-enterprise-with-microsoft/ba-p/1740437 *A commissioned Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, Ju...

The customer journey has changed. Almost all B2B exchanges are done digitally today, and research suggests today’s buying groups are more diverse than ever, with millennials making up the single biggest B2B buyer group. To stay relevant, sellers need to guide and collaborate with customers remotely, understand their customers and strengthen relationships, optimize processes to reduce costs, and help teams adapt to rapidly changing environments. Review the infographic for bullet points and fast facts about the new buying reality. Read More...

The pandemic pushed fast forward on the hybrid workplace trend. Data shows that most workers prefer a balance of working from home and the office, and yet not everyone thrives in this environment. Now there are a number of questions pending: How do businesses manage this level of coordination? When and how much should things shift “back”? How will the result reshape workspaces and real estate needs? Learn where leaders are struggling to provide technical parity by design (rather than circumstance) to their workforce. Read More...

The global pandemic changed the way the world works. Thankfully, working remotely is now easier than ever with access to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Even though virtual desktop environments are typically more secure than standalone desktops, organizations need to focus on implementing security measures against hackers accessing a company’s systems. Learn seven strategies companies should employ to eliminate loopholes attackers often exploit. Read More...

In today’s digitized world, gaining insights-based, collaborative engagement is the solution to optimizing sales processes. Learning about your customer and understanding sales data to identify ideal targets, recommend best actions, and collaborate with peers, will result in accelerated revenue. Interactive digital selling provides a genuine opportunity for sales teams to gain real-time data and insights to build strong, long-term customer relationships—and to help customers adapt and transition to the cloud. Tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales help pave the way. Sign up to learn more about digital selling.

Das neue Microsoft Surface- Portfolio bietet hochleistungsfähige Chipsätze, Displays mit Multi-Touch-Funktion, natürliches Schreiben und Zeichnen sowie eine kristallklare Audio- und Videoqualität für mehr Produktivität. Steigern Sie die Leistung, Möglichkeiten und Zufriedenheit Ihrer Mitarbeitenden mit diesen neuen und innovativen Geräten. • Arbeiten Sie von überall aus besser zusammen mit Hardware und Software, die dafür entwickelt wurden, Menschen zusammenzubringen. • Reduzieren Sie die IT-Komplexität, ermöglichen Sie es Ihren IT-Teams, Images schneller aufzuspielen und geben Sie Ihren Mitarbeitenden mehr Zeit, sich auf echte Innovation zu konzentrieren, indem Geräte per Zero-Touch-Bereitstellung in Windows Autopilot für Benutzende direkt bereitgestellt werden. • Nutzen Sie dank One-Klick-Geräteverwaltung und -sicherheit von Microsoft zuverlässigen, leistungsstarken und einheitlichen Schutz, damit Sie sicher von überall aus arbeiten können. Surface mit Microsoft 365 bietet Sic...

DevSecOps is the evolution of DevOps, where developer, security, and operations teams are united around the culture of security as a shared responsibility. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you navigate the world of DevSecOps and understand how to successfully adopt it. Read More...

Surface delivers the best of Microsoft to meet the needs of your business. Surface enables people to work however they work best, offering flexibility, power, and style. Paired with Microsoft 365, Surface helps customers save time and money with streamlined deployment, modern management, and enterprise-level security. Learn how you can create efficiencies and savings with Surface and Microsoft 365. #SurfaceForBusiness Read the guide: Microsoft Surface business value Read More...

Whether you already have a Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure or are ready to kick off your journey with Azure, explore two adoption paths with the same outcome: secure, customizable Azure Virtual Desktop and app solutions supporting remote work for a hybrid workforce. Review the infographic to examine these parallel paths and the capabilities they unlock—from the only multi-session Windows 10/11 experience to remote app streaming. Read More...

No matter your security concern, chances are that Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop has you covered. This infographic shows the wide range of safeguards, from data protection and privacy to threat defense, cloud-level identity governance, and more. Read More...

Edge computing accelerates the ability of companies to become “bionic” by giving them access to massive data sets and the means to understand this information in news ways—through artificial intelligence. Unlike cloud computing, competing at the edge requires a whole different set of skills and capabilities—making it a necessity for companies to be constantly learning and adapting. To understand who will succeed from those who stay behind, it’s important to analyze what edge computing is, how fast it’s growing, what its most popular uses are, and the companies that are poised to win. Read More...

Connecting with customers and building trust to create strong relationships is essential in today’s digital era. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator have joined forces to offer an adaptive solution that anticipates customers’ needs as they change. With LinkedIn Navigator’s vast network of business decision makers, you can find the right customers, better understand what they care about, and connect in a more meaningful way. Put the human touch back into every customer interaction. Read More...

Geben Sie Ihren Mitarbeitenden im Büro, im Außendienst, zu Hause und unterwegs mehr Möglichkeiten. Microsoft Surface for Business Geräte und Zubehör bieten eine smartere, nahtlosere Möglichkeit, in jeder Umgebung arbeiten zu können. Entdecken Sie Laptops, 2-in-1-Geräte und modernes Zubehör, die es Ihrem Team ermöglichen, sich von überall aus zu verbinden und allein oder mit anderen zusammen sicher zu arbeiten. Read More...

What do you do when a pandemic hits and you need to pivot to remote work? If you’re The Russell Group representing dozens of universities in the UK, you turn to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop. • Imperial College London deployed Azure Virtual Desktop to deliver 450 apps to 20,000 remote students using different devices. • Newcastle University only needed a single Azure tenant to serve 26,000 students on three campuses around the world—granting up to 4,500 per day remote access to campus-level computing power. • At University of Leeds, IT staff went live with capacity for 2,200 concurrent connections in just one week. • University of Nottingham used Microsoft Teams to facilitate its move to Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop—taking only two days to replace an aging VPN system and begin granting remote access to its specialized software. Read More...

Whether you are migrating or extending your Windows Server and SQL Server infrastructure to the cloud, a lift-and-shift approach can help simplify the process by moving your applications quickly without requiring major changes to their configuration. Learn about Microsoft Azure migration and what to expect from each of the three phases. Read More...