Microsoft Azure
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Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset
DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…
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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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How automation is transforming revenue processing at Microsoft
The Microsoft partner and customer network brings in more than $100 billion in revenue each year, most of the company’s earnings. Keeping tabs on the millions of annual transactions is no small task—just ask Shashi Lanka Venkata and Mark Anderson,…
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Protecting Microsoft’s SAP workload with Microsoft Sentinel
For any large enterprise like Microsoft, monitoring threats to infrastructure and applications developing and maintaining an always-on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution like Microsoft Sentinel that’s equipped to ward off threats isn’t only a weighty task but also…
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Rethinking software licensing at Microsoft with ServiceNow Software Asset Management
In an organization the size of Microsoft, employees need a wide array of tools to accomplish their work. For many, third-party software is part of their toolbox, and that means we need to purchase, organize, and manage software licenses on…
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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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Doing more with less internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure
How do we at Microsoft get the best value from our Microsoft Azure environment? We’ve been refining and optimizing the way we use the cloud for years, and as such, our answer isn’t just about how much we’ve been able…
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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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Optimizing Microsoft’s SAP environment with Microsoft Azure
At Microsoft, we use SAP enterprise resource management software to run our mission-critical business functions like finance and human resources. In an on-premises model, physical computing resources are costly and may go unused. But by moving our SAP systems to…