"The average company uses 1,427 cloud-based services across its employees. This is causing an exponential explosion and expansion of data that only trends upward with every quarterly analysis we see. It’s a tremendous data-fragmentation problem that consumers and organizations are wrestling with. We recognized the problem and started developing Jumptuit as a comprehensive solution."
"We chose Azure security and management services because they gave us a global view with a minimal amount of administrative effort."
"We don’t have to deal with tapes, augment our SAN, or seek outside help with storage management, so we estimate we will save about $65,000 in just the first year of using Microsoft Azure StorSimple."
"Almost all of the open source software that we set up using Azure Cloud Services has worked well. We are getting fantastic performance. We haven’t had to buy more licenses than we normally would."
"Moodle was initially only a document storage platform for courses. Students could log on, search and download whatever document or presentation they needed. Today, with Moodle integrated into the cloud, we can have forums, chat sessions and online exams."
"For businesses that want a flexible and highly intuitive development environment, open source Software on the Azure platform provides unparalleled flexibility and stability."
"Instead of telling people to wait for six months for a new feature, we can give it to them in a few weeks. Our lead cycles are getting much shorter, and we have business stakeholders involved so that our solutions are more aligned with business requirements."
"The transition to the cloud was absolutely painless, and within 24 hours we were online and back in action."
"We jokingly say that if there’s a product out there, it’s used somewhere within Shell…. Most of those platforms require us to support a whole raft of technologies, so the cross-platform functionality in Visual Studio Team Services make it a very logical choice for us."
"This solution has allowed us to broaden our target market and reach out to SMBs."
"With Power BI, we have had a more complete product to demonstrate, shortening the sales cycle and providing added value to customers."
"Clinicians in Africa and other areas where power is unstable or inaccessible can use our Smart Fridge to store and dispense vaccines. And the Fridge is small enough that you can put it in a van. So if you can't bring the people to the vaccine, you can bring the vaccine to the people."
"Red Hat really impressed us with its enterprise grade support. We were surprised that Red Hat open source and Azure support resided in the same office."
"Anyone can build an app, but we’re using proven Azure technology and can blow away the competition on price and time-to-market. And we can have fun while we do it."
"Because we can now automatically distribute multiple formats and DRM methods from one video file through transcoding, storage volume has dramatically decreased. Our storage cost has been reduced to 25 percent of what it was before."