Author: Howard M. Cohen
Microsoft Learn is a singular resource providing valuable and necessary training to virtually all users of all Microsoft products and platforms.
When you visit the Microsoft Learn site for Azure and click the button to “Browse all Azure training”, you’ll find yourself immediately presented with 1,940 modules, courses, learning paths, and more.
Two Ways to Look at It
At first, you may find yourself comfortably impressed that there’s so much learning content available to you and your team members to help you learn how to use Azure.
On the other hand, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content your people need to consume. Perhaps you don’t have enough people. Perhaps your timeframe for full deployment is very short. Perhaps you don’t see anyone on your team having the requisite skills to even begin to take these courses. Each module is targeted at roles like “AI Engineer”, “Administrator”, “Developer”, “Data Analyst”, and many others. Perhaps you don’t have personnel filling these roles, but still plan to use Azure for relevant work.
Not a New Challenge
This is not a new challenge in the realm of information technologies. New technologies, new functionalities, and new capacities are constantly being introduced. Frequently, companies find themselves needing to respond to the new opportunities these new offerings provide. Training their own personnel is always an option, but they may find themselves wanting to enjoy the new value far more quickly than training can be completed. Attempting to hire personnel with the new skills is an unlikely strategy when the skills are brand new.
This challenge arrives regularly. When mass storage was dramatically increased, users had to respond quickly. Same with platforms like SharePoint, Teams, Dynamics, the cloud, and Copilot put companies into the same challenge.
Competencies and Specializations
One of the primary reasons companies, organizations, and even individuals choose the Microsoft platform is the availability of a robust, carefully developed partner community. Microsoft Partners, companies that are focused on delivering Microsoft technologies, are legion and they all invest heavily in training their teams on the latest, greatest offerings in advance of their release.
More than a decade ago, Microsoft introduced new programs that encouraged each of their Partners to specialize their practices. For any Microsoft discipline there are many Partners who have built their business around that discipline. Back when these new programs were introduced, Microsoft drove Partners to declare their competencies and certify their capability. Today, more and more of the Microsoft expertise set is defined by specializations.
The net effect is that there are Microsoft Partners who are expert at whatever specializations are required to achieve your next project.
Partner-to-Partner (P2P) Partner for Comprehensive Solutions
Even better, Microsoft has always encouraged Partners and made it easy for them to join forces to combine their skills to complete however complex a project their customers may have. For customers, this means that your primary Microsoft Partner can provide you with true, focused expertise for all the Microsoft disciplines, some from their own team, and some from their partners. With this strategy, all the services provided for your project come from certified experts.
The Breadth of Azure
With well more than 200 different services in addition to the high flexibility of virtual machine configuration, databases, operating systems, and more, Azure is among the most sophisticated platforms in the IT industry. While this may seem daunting to those wanting to launch new workloads on the platform, the solution is already at hand.
The Idenxt platform combines Microsoft’s own tools, with custom-designed AI-based tools and an assembled team of Azure experts to manage and protect every workload you bring to Azure.
You may choose to partner directly with Idenxt to have them support the entire lifecycle of your cloud project, or your existing Microsoft Partners may partner with Idenxt to assure continuity and effective communications between teams to deliver the best possible result.
The management team at Idenxt includes individuals who have been well known in the Microsoft Partner community for many, many years, which accelerates the establishment of trust relationships with whichever Microsoft Partners you may be working with. This industry veterans have been instrumental in defining partner-to-partner partnering for decades.
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