Cloud Solutions for the Modern Business

The digital transformation of the business world has pushed businesses to address new challenges: remote work, cloud migration, and device security is the new normal. Today’s decision makers need to create people connections, address burnout, and work toward consolidating apps. With Microsoft 365, you get a platform boosted with industry-leading apps, intelligent cloud services, and world-class security. You can download and sync devices, detect threats before issues occur, simplify through vendor consolidation, and so much more. This infographic explains the 6 ways Microsoft 365 apps and services can ease your organization’s journey to modern work. Read More...

When COVID-19 hit in 2020, New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP)—responsible for moving a billion gallons of fresh water in each day while taking storm and wastewater out—used Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop to shift roughly 2,000 employees to remote work in a matter of days. The move proved 90% faster than using traditional VPN connections, which it favored in the past. The choice paid off with faster connection speeds, more robust scalability, and multifactor authentication with access to both cloud and on-premises applications. Read More...

Businesses rely on cloud transformation for the stability and agility it offers to their operations. Microsoft 365 enables this transformation by realizing modern work environments where users are productive and secure while working from anywhere. Review the infographic and get started today with this 5-step deployment checklist. Learn how you can rapidly deploy Teams, secure access, provide employees with adequate support, and more. 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...

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...

As a company dedicated to keeping people moving, Goodyear tire company wasn’t about to slow down because of global travel restrictions due to COVID-19. When engineers could no longer travel to factories for equipment installation or troubleshooting, Goodyear turned to Microsoft Teams running on RealWear voice controlled, assisted-reality wearable computers to bring the engineering experts into the plants virtually—enabling instantaneous collaboration from remote locations, and saving money on travel costs. Read More...

Set up Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop in minutes to enable secure remote work. Provide the familiarity and compatibility of Microsoft Windows with the scalable multi-session experience for your end users—and save costs by using existing eligible Windows licenses. Help keep your applications and data secure and compliant with built-in security that can proactively detect threats and take remedial action. Manage your end-to-end Azure Virtual Desktop deployment alongside other Azure services within the Azure portal. Sign up to stay connected, and provide your employees with the best virtualized experience. 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...

Fact: 7 in 10 IT leaders believe cloud migration is a priority when future-proofing digital infrastructure. Also fact: 37% of companies plan to move business critical applications to the cloud in 2020-21. And almost half (47%) of IT infrastructure globally is already on the cloud, despite ongoing concerns over security. Growth in the number of user devices and cloud resources mean organizations must be aware of distributed security risks such as DDoS attacks. Which is why digital leaders are prioritizing improving their organization's cybersecurity. Read More...

The results of a double-blind, online survey of 500 IT decision makers responsible for device, productivity, collaboration, and endpoint management tools, showed an increase efficiency and drove business growth by harnessing organizational knowledge to provide rich insights. Learn about the three general stages of Microsoft 365 adoption regarding your business’s IT device management approach in this case study. Subscribe to stay connected. We’ll help you take an active role in shaping your organization’s resiliency. Read More...

Simplify deployment and management of your infrastructure, and scale quickly based on your business needs. Review the infographic to learn the six benefits of using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop to power your remote workforce, from secure access via unmanaged and low-cost devices to increased scalability in a crisis. Best of all, reduce costs through virtualization. Read More...

Microsoft is uniquely positioned for partnership with any organization’s modern digital transition journey. Solutions like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 provide an end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions. Built on a foundation of security and privacy, the Azure platform helps businesses in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line. Communication is seamless, dynamic, and collaborative. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you learn more about making the transition to the cloud. Read More...