Microsoft Azure Cloud

Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through global network of datacenters, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice.

Deploy Dynamics AX on Microsoft Azure

Arshiya Sultana

Sysfore Technologies has successfully deployed Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 on Microsoft Azure for an agriculture operation giant – Harrisons Malayalam Limited(HML). This deployment resulted in an extremely scalable, accessible and cost-effective solution.

HML runs its Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP in-house, in a traditional datacenter setup. Due to challenges in managing technology infrastructure, HML wished to evaluate deployment of its Microsoft Dynamics AX application workload to the cloud. They approached Sysfore Technologies, an Azure Circle Partner, and indicated the following set of requirements:

  1. Reduce the Huge CAPEX for Infrastructure
  2. Reduce investment in resources to manage technology infrastructure
  3. Overcome typical Connectivity issues in Operations
  4. Need for High Availability and Guaranteed uptime
  5. Reliable solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery

Sysfore spearheaded the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics AX on Microsoft Azure as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

The benefits realized by the customer include:

  1. Instant Scalability
  2. Upfront Capital Investments Avoided
  3. Reduced Operating Costs
  4. Reduced time for Deployment
  5. High Availability and Reliability

For a detailed understanding of the deployment scenario, download the case study.

Microsoft rolls out new StorSimple 8000 Series Hybrid Storage Arrays

Deepika Nagpal

Microsoft is taking the wraps off two new StorSimple 8000 series arrays:  The 8100 and the 8600. These arrays are branded as “Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000” and integrate with two new Azure services, the Azure StorSimple Manager and the Azure StorSimple Virtual Appliance. Microsoft plans to make the new Azure StorSimple arrays available as of August 1. This new offering builds on the success of previous StorSimple offerings that automate and eliminate one of the biggest problems facing IT organizations – double digit data growth and the storage capacity and data protection complexities that come with it.

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Highlights from Day 3, WPC 2014: Satya Nadella addresses Partners

Highlights from Day 3, WPC 2014: Satya Nadella addresses Partners

Deepika Nagpal

In his first direct address to partners since taking on the top role in February, Microsoft’s Chief Executive Satya Nadella outlined his new vision for productivity at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference(WPC) 2014, pledging to make the Microsoft ecosystem as pervasive as possible.

“We are the company and the ecosystem that will build productivity experiences and platforms for the mobile-first, cloud first-world,” he said at the WPC in Washington, D.C. “We will reinvent productivity for the new generation. We will empower every individual and organization to achieve more. That is our singular mission.”

Microsoft is in a unique position because it can harmonize the needs of organizations, individuals and developers through its services and software. Microsoft will continue to refine its software and services, but look for ways they can be combined to offer more value and used across multiple devices, whatever their operating system, he said.

“We are going to have our experiences on all platforms. On every home screen out there, our aim is to have one or more Microsoft icons. Anyone can enter from any device into our ecosystem,” Nadella added.

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