"The alerting, analytics and automation capabilities in the integrated Microsoft / Azure security solution allows our small Information Security Office to keep up with the persistent threats faced by nonprofit and for-profit sectors alike."
"When Microsoft delivers a solution, all the pieces work together. Apart from the value we get from Dynamics 365 itself, the support from Microsoft and the company’s direction give us a lot of confidence."
"For me, learning is not only on the four walls of a classroom, but also from the community where you are connected."
"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.”
“We checked if there was anything like our idea on the market. There were a few local products but nothing that could be used on a worldwide basis.”