Monday, February 28, 2022

Cloud computing will be a gold mine in the post-COVID era

Companies needed to embrace change as the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges and continues to have a multi-sector impact on nations, businesses, and citizens. As cloud computing continues growing, there are three major trends for the post-COVID era: cost optimization, containerization and serverless computing, and edge computing. Understand these various cloud options and see how they're going to play out in the near term.

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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.

Enable remote work faster with new Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities

Windows Virtual Desktop meets the needs of an increasingly distributed and remote workforce. Organisations of all sizes have had to quickly shift focus and support users who need to stay connected from new locations and devices. Learn what new capabilities Windows Virtual Desktop added to make remote work more efficient and secure.

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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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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

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Closing the skills gap in manufacturing with Microsoft

For manufacturers to capture the value of the rise of digital industrial technology, they need to ensure their workforce has the right skills and the right tools. Microsoft has the solutions you need to upskill and equip your Frontline Workforce. Help them access the digital and soft skills to use modern tools and keep pace with change. Read on to learn how:

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Empower employees for secure remote working with Windows Virtual Desktop

Virtual desktops can provide great security to organisations and allow remote employees to access safely confidential organisational data. Learn how Windows Virtual Desktop makes your workflow secure in addition to optimising services.

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Cloud Security and Windows Virtual Desktop

Keeping your work secure is paramount. Windows Virtual Desktop can help. Learn the protocols Microsoft takes to ensure data privacy, network protection, and more.

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Monday, 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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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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Driving employee engagement and empowering Frontline Workers

It's inspiring to see how industry leaders like IKEA are driving higher levels of employee engagement and enhancing the customer experience by putting tools like Microsoft Teams into the hands of their Frontline Workforce. IKEA uses Microsoft tools to connect everyone in the organisation with familiar features like chat and video calls and digitising Frontline processes such as shift management to save time and cost.

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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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop spring refresh: What's new and next

Microsoft is improving the Windows Virtual Desktop management experience, Teams, and more. Microsoft continues to make changes to improve the overall Windows Virtual Desktop experience for users—those working remotely and in-office. Check out the new features and what's next for Windows Virtual Desktop here.

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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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Fruit of the Loom thrives in digital era with Microsoft 365 Enterprise

How does Fruit of the Loom get every employee to understand that they can make a difference and ensure that they have the right tools to meet that goal? By bringing digital transformation from the Frontline Workforce to the executive suite with Microsoft 365. Watch this video for their story.

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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.

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Empowering Frontline Workers to gain a competitive edge

Frontline Workers are like brand ambassadors. They are of major importance to your organisation. When you empower these workers, benefits are quick to follow. In this report from Harvard Business Review and Microsoft, discover how you can get a competitive edge by giving your team the tools and technology they need to drive business transformation.

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Why Integrated Technology Systems is choosing Windows Virtual Desktop for their customers

Customers have been asking for a user-friendly Remote Desktop Service for years, and Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is it. As the only affordable virtual desktop solution that allows you to deploy a native Windows 10 experience, it's been identified as one of the biggest partner opportunities in 2020. Read more in this blog post.

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Monday, February 14, 2022

How-to Videos for Windows Virtual Desktop

Windows Virtual Desktop provides the most productive and most secure experience for users. Get up and running with this best-in-class Microsoft program by watching these how-to videos.

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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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Why Trust Windows Virtual Desktop?

Quickly deploy virtual desktops and apps to enable secure remote work. Microsoft continues to invest in cybersecurity research and development and makes changes to improve the overall Windows Virtual Desktop experience for employees. Learn how this program can be a tool to keep your workload safe.

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Sharpen your competitive edge by empowering your Frontline Workers with the tools and technology they need to save time and be efficient, so they can focus on what matters most.

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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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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

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Optimize your cloud experience while lowering costs for Windows Server desktops and apps. Don't miss out on all the amazing features Windows Virtual Desktop has to offer. Subscribe now to learn more.

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The top 9 ways Microsoft IT is enabling remote work for its employees

As COVID-19 cases continue to spread around the world, millions of people have moved to remote work. We're right there with them.

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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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(Edge) Frontline Workers Competitive Edge

Boost your Frontline Workers' competitive edge with best-in-class cloud-based productivity software. Discover the Microsoft tools that can help you streamline business, improve the bottom line, protect data, and transform collaboration. Review this infographic for more.

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Understanding the Virtual Environment

Microsoft continually innovates to empower best-in-class experiences, no matter where you're located. Learn how you can maximise productivity in the virtual environment with Windows Virtual Desktop.

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Windows Virtual Desktop Solution Overview

Get all the tools and resources you need to migrate your apps, data and infrastructure at your own pace with confidence. Learn how Windows Virtual Desktop expands capabilities with the best virtualised end-user experience in the video below.

Monday, February 7, 2022

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.

New tools to help IT empower employees securely in a remote work world

Enable your users to work from anywhere with confidence by controlling information access across different device endpoints and networks. Additionally, learn how you can benefit from new Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop features to enhance meeting experiences and ensure cost effectiveness.

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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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Mattress Firm associates collaborate with Microsoft 365 to improve in-store, digital customer experience

Frontline Workers need options and the right tools to provide customers with the best experience - in-store or online. In this video, hear how Mattress Firm, a large-scale specialty mattress retailer, used Microsoft 365 to overcome the challenges of missed communication and scattered information. Unifying in a cloud platform allowed Mattress Firm to empower workers with a more authentic connection and better information.

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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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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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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All you need to know about Windows Virtual Desktop

Windows Virtual Desktop is the only cloud-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience, optimized for Office 365 ProPlus—which means you can deliver a virtual desktop experience and remote apps to any device with cost advantages previously only possible with server-based virtualization. Here's all you need to know about WVD.

Microsoft makes it easier to get started with Windows Virtual Desktops

With a massive shift from working in-office to working remotely, Microsoft made updates to make it effortless for users to work with Windows Virtual Desktop. Learn what steps Brad Anderson, Vice President for Microsoft 365, and his team took to make the program easier for customers to use.

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