Apr 17, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

How Microsoft is transforming its own patch management with Azure

[Editor’s note: Azure Update Management is becoming Update Management Center, which is currently available in public preview. Please note that 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...

Dec 11, 2019   |   Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is modernizing its internal network using automation

After Microsoft moved its workload of 60,000 on-premises servers to Microsoft Azure, employees could set up systems and virtual machines (VMs) with a push of a few buttons. Although network hardware servers have changed over time, the way that network engineers work isn’t nearly as modern. “With computers, we have modernized our processes to follow...

May 2, 2019   |   Seth Malcolm

Microsoft internal SAP workload gets a telemetry boost with Azure

For the first time, Microsoft has end-to-end visibility into the millions of business processes that it runs through SAP every day. Microsoft is using a new suite of Microsoft Azure telemetry tools to gain insight into how to better manage expense reports, time away reporting, purchase order creation, and similar business processes that get routed...