February 28, 2022

How to avoid cloud migration pitfalls

While most businesses rely on the cloud for their storage and innovation needs, many are not using it to its full potential. Most businesses are only at the beginning of their cloud journey. This article from Forbes explains how to develop a full vision and plan for your future cloud migration and innovation.

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Transformation journey

From nurturing creativity, to boosting productivity and advanced security, Microsoft Surface is the best place to deploy Microsoft 365.

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When inspiration strikes, bring it to the Surface

Watch floral artist Maurice Harris bring his ideas to full bloom with the new Surface. From processing power and brilliant touchscreen to all-day battery and stunning graphics, the new Surface family can make your imagination a reality.

Transform your business with Azure migration

Learn why companies like Albertsons, H&R Block, and Carlsberg Group chose to migrate to Azure and how the move has helped them transform their businesses. Microsoft provides tools for successful migration that work flexibly within the company's chosen migration process. Microsoft data platforms provide scalability, high availability, and security to accelerate your journey.

Microsoft Surface devices drive digital innovation at Blue Frog Bar and Grill

Staff at the blue frog restaurant chain looked for help modernizing and transforming IT operations from the table to the boardroom. Microsoft delivered in the form of a powerful combination of Surface Go and Surface Pro devices, supported by a suite of business and productivity software built around Windows 10.

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February 21, 2022

Microsoft Azure Arc: Enabling management & data services outside Azure infrastructure

Microsoft Azure Arc is a set of software technologies that is designed to help companies meet their governance challenges and make Azure services available everywhere across their diverse and sometimes sprawling infrastructures. With Azure Arc, familiar Azure tools, technologies, and methods can be used across environments, including environments with limited or no connectivity to Azure. Subscribe to stay connected—we'll help you navigate the world of Azure Arc and unleash the potential for growth within your company.

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Tustin school district brings advanced, inclusive learning to high schools with Microsoft Surface Pro

After testing four different tablets in their schools, the Tustin Unified School District found Microsoft Surface Pro to be the best choice for their high school teachers and students. In this video, see how Surface was able to increase productivity across the board and empower students with different accessibility needs and learning styles.

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Chipotle builds new website with .NET Core, Visual Studio Code, and Azure

Chipotle Mexican Grill is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. In this video, learn how Chipotle's ordering service is built in .NET to provide customers with a more efficient, coordinated service.

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School district levels the playing field with Surface for every student

Forward-thinking Blue Springs School District in the Blue Springs area of Kansas City, Missouri, is preparing its students for a technology-rich world. The district wanted to give students the best possible education within the financial constraints that face most school districts. It also aimed to ensure equal access to technology for children of all economic backgrounds. By providing a Microsoft Surface Go device for each student, the district optimized its technology budget and leveled the academic playing field for all. Most important, its students are poised to soar.

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Telstra eyes monitoring and securing its hybrid cloud with Azure Arc

Telstra is creating a highly secure infrastructure that's fully connected under a single control plane. Data security and regulatory compliance are at the forefront of its mission, as it builds and architects applications in a connected cloud. In moving its on-premises datacenters and consolidating them in the cloud, and also leaning on edge computing and various cloud platforms to deliver distributed telecommunications services, Telstra is relying on the adaptability and control of Microsoft Azure Arc to implement a single control plane across all platforms. This helps Telstra on its mission to grow its service offerings as Australia's leading telecommunications company.

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February 15, 2022

Reduce costs with unbeatable offers

While innovation has supplanted cost savings as the primary driver of cloud migration for many businesses, moving to the cloud needs to make sense for your bottom line. Microsoft Azure offers unique cost savings options.

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Modernize Endpoints A Zero Trust approach

The approach to modernizing endpoints is realized with Microsoft 365—and Microsoft Zero Trust is the model for security. With Zero Trust in place, employees can perform from anywhere in the world while maintaining tight control over core security needs. Let the Microsoft intelligent security cloud and endpoint leadership be your guide. Take a look at this infographic and advance your journey toward the Zero Trust model.

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Choosing the right solution for your hybrid and cloud estate

With Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled data services you get Azure innovation, cloud benefits, and a flexible cloud-billing model across your data estate—using any hardware and any Kubernetes. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you find the right path for your data using Azure Arc.

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February 14, 2022

Microsoft customer story for Sport Clips

Sport Clips delivers innovation to their customers with Microsoft Surface devices. See how users interact with Sport Clips in new, seamless ways to deliver efficiency and satisfaction.

Azure Arc brings the best of public cloud to on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud

Azure Arc is the Microsoft hybrid and multicloud platform that seamlessly extends the capabilities of the Azure public cloud to on-premises data centers, edge locations, and any public cloud. Customers with investments in Azure can centrally manage and govern infrastructure running in varied environments. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is expanding its capabilities to support non-Azure resources running outside of the public cloud—and Azure Arc is the glue binding these external sources to ARM.

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Five tips to help you save money and manage costs with Azure

Find out how you can take advantage of offers and tools to maximize your efficiency with Microsoft Azure. Watch this video to get 5 tips to help you save on costs and learn about the tools available to help you efficiently move to the cloud.

Surface Hub 2S: Teamwork without boundaries

More than 50% of work done today is accomplished through collaboration but 70% of professionals work somewhere other than the office at least one day week. This article shares how Microsoft Surface and partner devices are keeping modern professionals connected no matter where they are.

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A First Device Supported by Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Frontline Workers

In today's fragmented technology environment, it's important for leaders to support the frontline workforce with a customized user experience. Microsoft Endpoint Manager plays an important role in large scale projects requiring a secure environment to operate efficiently, such as with RealWear's assisted reality wearable device—controlled by using simple voice commands, which frees the hands for the job. Its reliable features enable businesses to configure, manage and gather data from their devices with simple security and device management.

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February 8, 2022

Cloud Migration Essentials: A guide to migrating servers and virtual machines

While migrating to the cloud offers your business greater scalability, cost-efficiency, and improved performance, it can require careful IT planning and strategy. Fortunately, there are resources and tools that can make your cloud migration less daunting and help simplify your path to the clou...

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Reimagine your digital endpoint estate

Growing concerns about employee experiences—including securing mobile devices and working with flexibility—call for endpoint modernization. The value in Microsoft 365 is its innovation in secure, cloud-connected management as well as its awareness of employee satisfaction (including the acceleration of onboarding of all workers). Take stock in your endpoint estate and start using modern products like Cloud Configuration and Endpoint Manager to manage Windows devices on-premises today. Review this infographic and discover the key components that enable unified device management.

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Cloud PaaS experience for data workloads on-premises, in multicloud, and at the edge

Easily organize and govern Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Sign up to stay connected! We'll help you accelerate innovation with Azure Arc.

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Solution overview video

Surface and partner devices allow your workforce to connect in the office, from the classroom, or on the go. This video highlights the features and benefits your organization can enjoy when you equip your team with Microsoft.

February 7, 2022

Ullman Dynamics's migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Explore how Ullman Dynamics, the world leader in suspension seats, is transforming their business by migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the cloud.

Azure App Service

This infographic illustrates the world-class flexibility, security, integration, and reliability of Azure App Service - a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps.

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Welcome to Microsoft 365 and Surface Ebook

This eBook discusses the ways in which the modern workplace is evolving and how Microsoft Surface equips you to respond.

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EY extends app management and security beyond the cloud with Azure Arc

As a global leader in strategy, taxes, and consulting, EY has a cloud-first strategy for its global data centers. Using Microsoft Azure Arc, EY is able to run data systems on-premises and in all its different clouds from a single pane of management—in full accordance with compliance and regulatory requirements. Azure Arc helps EY automate its operations— no small challenge in dealing with a hybridcloud.

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Deploy and protect endpoints for hybrid and frontline work

Today's transforming business scenario calls for an innovative approach. With a higher number of hybrid employees and a growing frontline base, it's more important than ever to secure endpoints, especially mobile. You can future-proof your business and mitigate risks with Microsoft 365. Key capabilities of products like Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Defender, and Azure Active Directory include broad device support, automatic enrollment, configured shared devices, custom device experiences, and more. Review the infographic to learn how to implement and protect every endpoint for remote and hybrid staff and frontline workers.

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February 1, 2022

Unify management and security with Microsoft cloud, apps, and endpoints

Today's workers require adaptability since they often use various devices to accomplish tasks. Microsoft cloud, apps, and endpoints combine services you may already be using, such as Microsoft Intune, which are part of the Microsoft 365 stack designed to help secure access, protect data, and respond and manage risk. Use Endpoint Manager to deploy and configure apps to keep teams connected, apply Azure Virtual Desktop for fast, familiar access to internal resources, access Surface Hub to support a vast device ecosystem, and secure conditional access to mobile apps with Azure Active Directory.

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Azure Arc-enabled data services

There are multiple on-premises challenges that range from patching and upgrading to data security and governance. With Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled data services, your company can get Azure innovation, cloud benefits, and flexible cloud billing across its data estate—with better cost efficiency and from anywhere in the world. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you innovate with Azure Arc to deliver the right cloud experience for your data workloads.

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GE powers its culture of curiosity with the Microsoft cloud

GE is transforming from an industrial leader to a digital industrial leader by using software and sensors to make its machines connected, responsive, and predictive. With Microsoft Office 365 and Windows 10, GE is digitally enabling its 300,000-person workforce to make sense of machine data, realize productivity gains, and collaborate securely, at a velocity never before experienced. With Teams forming dynamically, GE employees can now work together better to solve the world's toughest problems.