“We have students from many walks of life and demographics. I think what’s really amazing about this school is that we bring different styles of learning to them and appeal toward all their different learning types.”
"With the ability to file electronically, a case that took two years now takes two to three months. The court is strongly promoting the use of the portal, because it improves processes for everyone."
"With Text Analytics for health, we can find key indicators in clinical documents instantly and then abstract and display all pertinent information to improve the speed and quality of our reviews."
"The combination of Frame and the new N-Series instances on Azure provides our customers with today’s most advanced graphics platform in the cloud."
"We can deliver GPU instances in more regions of the world because of the broader Azure datacenter presence."
"Azure Database for MySQL simplifies development, it’s much easier to maintain, and it lowers costs too."
"It would be terrible if there was no public cloud, because there would be no Fotoable. There are other service providers, but Azure provides better support for China in the global market. I can sit in a Beijing office and remotely manage our applications and customer relationships worldwide."
"We expect to have 50,000 users by the end of the year, and my long-term plan is to reach 20 million users worldwide within five years. That’s ambitious, but I believe it’s possible with the way we create infrastructure and simplify administration by running PostgreSQL as a managed service on Azure."
"Using Azure for our websites has made the ability to communicate with parents a non-issue. For example, our staff used to panic about snow days, and now everybody has forgotten that they were ever a problem, because the site stays up. Put simply, it’s a win for us."
"Azure should be part of the conversation about hosting WordPress sites. GeekWire is a high-traffic, very dynamic WordPress site successfully running Linux technologies on Azure."
"Rather than taking hours and hours to do something that isn’t primary to our business, we will use Azure Database for PostgreSQL so we can eliminate that busy work."
"Using Azure in CSP to take advantage of the innovative cloud technologies coming from Microsoft means we can ride the digital revolution wave to our best advantage."
"Azure SQL Database with elastic pool is a very convenient way to manage sharded or partitioned databases. We have a lot of experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and other databases, and they can be hard to manage in a sharded way. But with elastic pool, it’s very simple to share databases across a resource set."
"A high-transaction, low-margin business is new for our company, and we can’t invest thousands of dollars on a database server to support the venture. We needed a very scalable, cost-effective PaaS environment, and that’s what Azure provided."
“We realized it could be the basis for the first fully automated insurance product, which was really interesting. We also saw an opportunity to show the market that we’re a company focused on knowledge and innovation.”