“It’s not just the technology aspect but it’s the commitment of leadership."
"We had a dedicated channel set up where doctors and nursing staff were checking people through the process, assigning beds, and measuring their recovery through the surge. We even used Teams to collaborate on a plan to convert parking lots into temporary hospitals for COVID-19 patients."
"As one of the early adopters, we’re actively testing a Microsoft Azure Stack integrated system to ensure that our mission-critical applications will run smoothly. Our goal is to leverage the capabilities of Azure and Azure Stack to provide hybrid cloud services for various business applications across the Mitsui group."
“It was the best instance of public-private partnership that I’ve seen in a long time.”
"Without Logic Apps, there’s no way we would have accomplished this level of integration in four months."
"We have confirmed that by combining Azure and Azure Stack, we can deploy application functionality as needed both in the cloud and on-premises. This provides new options to our customers and to MKI and could revolutionize application design."
"If we deploy Azure Stack on-premises at our worldwide locations, we can deploy Azure-developed applications in Azure Stack and in Azure. This will make it possible to conduct proof-of-concept and early-development phases in the public cloud and to deploy this same framework on-premises when it is commercialized."
“Since the public cloud came into being, the lack of integration between on-premises and public clouds in application deployment and operation methods has put a heavy burden on technicians.”
"We could never go back from the cloud. Choosing Azure was an essential step in our evolution. We wouldn’t have been able to develop natural disaster models without it."
"The VMware solution required 15 people to perform a DR failover; Azure Site Recovery requires three.… We now have more resources to focus on onboarding new customers and delivering products on time."
"With Azure Site Recovery, DR testing is easy … so we can do it whenever customers want. Everything’s automated. It makes us way more comfortable with our DR setup."
"We didn’t have to buy more storage because we can use our StorSimple devices for hosting employees’ drives and serving as restoration targets."
"Compared with our previous backup solution, our Azure solution costs significantly less to run. That, combined with the capital savings associated with the StorSimple devices, have produced a six-digit cost savings."
“Our infrastructure was being maintained in a way that was designed only to keep services running and we didn’t have control of the underlying architecture, so we couldn’t make changes to help with long-term strategy. And even though a lot of the hardware was fairly ancient, we were paying hefty costs.”
"We have very few people who know Linux here, and that sometimes led to issues with system uptime. By using the managed PostgreSQL database in Azure, we don’t need to manage the operating system, so we’ll have greater availability and less risk."