Author: Howard M. Cohen For the past five years, Microsoft has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services. This year they are joined in the leader quadrant by Google, Amazon, and IBM who barely snuck in at the lower left-hand corner of the leader quadrant. The Gartner Magic Quadrant …
REDMOND, Washington – March 5, 2025 – Idenxt, a leading provider of innovative application management solutions, is proud to announce that its flagship service, Mission-Critical Application Protection, is now available as a transactional offer on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This milestone marks a significant step in Idenxt’s mission to deliver unparalleled security, uptime, and performance …
Recently introduced, Windows Server 2025 brings advanced security, improved performance, and cloud agility. Here’s insight as to what that means to Azure customers. Author: Howard M. Cohen Hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Microsoft gave us the ability to synchronize Active Directory for on-premises networks with Active Directory for Azure, thus enabling hybrid management …
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Author: Howard M. Cohen It’s often said that the Excel spreadsheet application has such an enormous array of capabilities that few users ever use more than 10% of what’s possible. The same can be said of Azure. There are so many services, so many functionalities, and so many possible configurations that few people can keep up …
Author: Howard M. Cohen Were you to ask Microsoft why you should be using Azure to power your artificial intelligence (AI) based applications and workloads, they would respond: “Successful transformation with AI starts with a powerful, secure, and adaptive infrastructure strategy. And as you evolve, you need a cloud platform that adapts and scales with your …
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. …
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Author: Howard M. Cohen Business critical applications require the best possible security, non-stop reliability and availability. Here are some of the ways Idenxt leverages the Azure service to assure all these and more. Azure is well known as one of the top three “hyperscaler” cloud computing services, a description which emphasizes its sheer scale. Hundreds of …
Author: Howard M. Cohen All too often, those migrating to Azure concentrate on preparing and executing the migration procedurally. By beginning with the end in mind you shift the focus to the desired future state of your workloads, where they will reside, how they will be managed, and how you can best leverage Azure’s many advantages. …
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Author: Howard M. Cohen When you assign someone to do something, what do you want them to focus on; the operation of the tools they’ll use, or the outcome of the work itself? The obvious answer suggests that what we most value from tools is their transparency. The user doesn’t think about the tools. They just …
Author: Howard M. Cohen From the perspective of professional prowess, there’s really very little difference between your doctor who keeps your body healthy and your MSP who keeps your workloads healthy. Just as the “general practitioner” has evolved into many specializations, you can expect your MSP to follow the same path. As they do, you’ll want …
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