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Several new features and capabilities are coming to Azure VMware Solution. The new capabilities include stretched clusters offering greater uptime, integration with Azure NetApp Files, customer managed keys, new node sizes, and greater integration with Azure native services. More information on these new Azure VMware Solution capabilities can be found here. Why This Matters Azure […]

Modernizing applications on Azure’s cloud-native services can provide up to a 228% ROI. That ROI is a major finding in a recent Forrester Study on the economic impact of the Azure services. Forrester found organizations embracing modernization in cloud-native services saw a 228% ROI over three years, an average payback period of 15 months, a

New features and capabilities have been announced for the Microsoft 365 services. Microsoft Teams will be getting the new Games for Work app bringing small, social games into Teams, scheduled send for messages to control delivery, and a new sign language view in Teams Meetings. Microsoft Whiteboard is getting a new Follow feature to help

Microsoft is expanding its capabilities with the new Microsoft Supply Chain Platform. The Supply Chain Platform brings together existing investments in ERP systems with Microsoft’s AI, collaboration, and low-code solutions. The platform provides data and supply chain orchestration, a Supply Chain Center offering a command center experience, Data Management to ingest and integrate data across

Several new services and capabilities have been announced for Microsoft’s Cloud for Financial Services. Microsoft’s Industry Clouds program brings the capabilities of Microsoft’s three clouds (Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365) together with industry specific apps and services. The Financial Cloud platform has been updated with new compliance tools including risk and control mapping and

During the Ignite event, Microsoft announced hundreds of service enhancements, new capabilities, Industry Cloud changes, new security tools, and more. Due to the volume of announcements, Microsoft has assembled the Big Book of News 2022 with all of the announcements gathered in one place. The Big Book of News can be found here.  Why This

At the Ignite event, Microsoft announced many new features for Microsoft 365. Some of the announcements include a new Microsoft 365 app, Cisco meeting devices now Teams Room certified, a new Teams Premium licensing option with features like live translations for captions, integration between Teams and Meta’s Quest platform, hours and location support in Outlook

New experiences and enhancements have been released for Windows 11 as part of the 2022 Update. Some of the new experiences include tabbed File Explorer, a new Suggested Actions tool to provide rapid actions, a Taskbar Overflow feature to better manage spacing, expanded Windows share experiences, a new Photos app, integration with Apple’s iCloud photo

With expanding data residency laws from around the world, Microsoft is announcing plans to offer more data residency locations for Microsoft 365 services. Microsoft 365 is expanding from 15 country locations to an additional 13 locations in the near future. Part of this announcement also includes an EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft

The new Azure Managed Grafana service is now generally available. Azure Managed Grafana brings the latest Grafana 9.0 platform into a managed Azure service allowing organizations to deploy and leverage Grafana without the underlying infrastructure management. The Azure version of Grafana provides integrations between Grafana and Azure Monitor as well as support for Azure Container