cloud computing

Apr 15, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

DevOps is sending engineering practices up in smoke

When it comes to modernizing how software engineers write their code, sometimes you just have to light things on fire. Just ask James Gagnon. He’ll tell you that good engineering teams at Microsoft and in Microsoft Digital are driving towards using DevOps to do their work, and with good reason. “DevOps is a foundational part...

Mar 20, 2024   |   Joshua Deans

Enabling effortless cloud infrastructure management with MyWorkspace and Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Digital (MSD) is the organization that powers, protects, and transforms Microsoft. As part of its mission, MSD builds and manages the cloud network infrastructure that supports Microsoft products and services. MyWorkspace is a browser-based cloud-provisioning tool created by MSD to allow Microsoft employees to rapidly deploy Azure-based infrastructure environments for solution testing and development...

Oct 26, 2023   |   Beth Garrison

Boosting employee connectivity with Microsoft Azure-based VWAN architecture

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in our ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Whether our employees are in neighboring cities or different continents, they need to communicate and collaborate efficiently with each other. We designed our Microsoft Azure-based virtual wide-area network (VWAN) architecture to provide high-performance networking across...

Sep 20, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Transforming change management at Microsoft with Microsoft 365

When Microsoft 365 became a service, the way IT managers needed to think about change management had to change, and dramatically so. “We were no exceptions,” says David Johnson, principal product manager architect, who leads the team that governs how Microsoft 365 is deployed across Microsoft. “Microsoft 365 started changing every day, and we needed...

Nov 10, 2022   |   Inside Track staff

Powering Microsoft’s operations transformation with Microsoft Azure

In any digital transformation, technology and culture changes go together, and our ongoing operations transformation here at Microsoft is no different. As a company, we have evolved from using a process-centered, rigid, manual operations model with a disconnected customer experience. We moved to a Microsoft Azure-based model that uses modern engineering principles such as scalability,...

Feb 19, 2019   |   Lukas Velush

Microsoft Teams keeps employees connected during epic snow event  

For Microsoft, the best part of the epic snowstorms that hammered its headquarters for nine straight days is that the collaboration technology that employees used to work from home was as seamless as if they were still in the office. While the 50,000 employees who live in Redmond, Washington were blocked in by roughly two feet of snow that fell from February 4th-12th, the Microsoft Teams platform they used to work from home didn’t flinch despite taking on a much heavier...