Microsoft Azure
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Enhancing Microsoft’s security posture with Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager
Imagine an enterprise company with dozens or hundreds of firewalls, each with its own set of policies for keeping corporate networks secure. That was the situation here at Microsoft until our IT teams started using Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager. This…
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Revolutionizing SAP and ADP connectivity with Microsoft Azure VWAN and VPN
Connecting line-of-business solutions into the Microsoft Azure networking environment is a critical part of enabling an efficient hybrid network environment and an important step in transforming enterprise networking using Azure. We’ve recently helped SAP, one of our key business partners,…
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Reshaping the Azure developer experience using Azure ExpressRoute
We’re using Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to facilitate high-bandwidth, dedicated connectivity between Microsoft Azure for Operators and the developers who create and implement Azure for Operators features internally here at Microsoft. Our Infrastructure and Engineering Services (IES) team in Microsoft Digital,…
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Transforming our internal Microsoft Azure spend forecasting
Budget forecasting is a crucial discipline across any business process. With a large-scale consumable resource like Microsoft Azure, accurate budgeting can lead to savings in the millions. To improve Microsoft Azure spend forecasting for our internal engineering teams in Microsoft…
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Focusing on user-experience network monitoring with AppNeta and Azure Monitor
Cloud-based networking has become a core pillar of Microsoft’s core infrastructure. Here at Microsoft Digital (MSD), Microsoft’s internal IT organization, our unwavering commitment to an exceptional user experience for our employees has led us to transform how we monitor our…
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New trade screening tool boosts Microsoft
Microsoft runs on trust. This includes ensuring that the company is compliant with regulatory requirements by utilizing evolving technology to transform compliance practices, including trade screening. At Microsoft, we pride ourselves on working fairly and honestly with the people we…
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Shifting to paperless contract lifecycle management to help schools navigate COVID-19
[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Paperless contract…
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Listening to millions of IoT building sensor readings with load testing
As an employee, an easy-seeming task like booking a meeting room can quickly become difficult if you cannot see which rooms are available—that is where taking a transformed approach to load testing can help. Employees booking rooms and dozens of…
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Streamlining virtual software provisioning at scale with MyWorkspace
Every software company has unique virtual provisioning needs. Creating complex virtual infrastructure from scratch and maintaining it for even a short period can be labor-intensive, costly, and risky from a security standpoint. When it needs to happen multiple times per…
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Transforming how Microsoft manages its corporate real estate data
Microsoft manages hundreds of buildings around the world with various purposes—warehouses, offices, labs, cafes, and so on. Like all companies with large real estate footprints, the company wanted to find better ways of managing each building type. To do that,…
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Transforming Microsoft buildings with IoT technology and indoor mapping
Sphoorti Patil is using Microsoft Azure indoor mapping and IoT technology that helps Microsoft employees find their way around the company’s campuses—and she hasn’t been in a Microsoft building yet. She’s not alone in this experience—Microsoft has hired a number…
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Transforming how contract creation works at Microsoft with automation
At Microsoft, we do business with an immense number of vendors and suppliers, and many of the services they provide require a statement of work (SOW) contract. Creating, approving, and managing those contracts is an immense task. We developed an…