"With Azure Virtual Desktop, we can complete our annual security assessment to meet industry standards around managing Azure Virtual Desktop. We can rest assured those devices always have the latest security updates and antivirus definitions."
"Circulation of timely information in a secure manner, through an infrastructure that’s future-ready, was core to our IT modernization strategy. Our primary focus was to ensure our employees are not getting hampered with the traditional technology setup, which in turn has a direct impact on customer serviceability and business profits."
"We wanted to allow people to bring their algorithm into our cloud environment, train the algorithm, and then leave with the algorithm, but not leave with any of the data."
"Shielded VMs remove the conversation blocker that we experience with security-conscious customers. With Shielded VMs, we can assure customers that Rackspace administrators at the fabric level can’t access their VMs, so their data remains highly secure and is untouchable by us."
"Not only are Shielded VMs a massively improved security mechanism, but all our VMs are now encrypted, with no effort or cost on our part. This gives all our customers a heightened sense of security and is a huge competitive differentiator for us."
"Our approach is unique within the industry – from the archive and video on demand, we have created archive on demand."
"Microsoft really listened and paid attention when we pointed out gaps in Azure, and then it worked to fill them."
"Since we’ve implemented our Power BI solution in Azure, we’ve realized a big improvement in business insight and efficiency.… Our continued growth is due to many factors—and Power BI is one of them."
"People are afraid of data. They’re afraid that it’ll be used against them, so the key is to make it non-threatening. We built a system that allows a teacher to acknowledge their strengths and weaknesses. If you can help teachers become high performers, then you help students."
"Innovation is Microsoft’s competitive advantage. We truly believe that Azure is the way to go for developing modern and innovative online platforms."
"In the old days, you had to set up infrastructure for dev/test and production, and that could take weeks. But with Azure, it’s just the push of a button."
"Data is king here. We run a couple thousand incentive programs a year, and by having all the data from those programs in our Personalization Cloud in the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, we can give our customers really valuable insights about making programs work well in their environment and industry."
"Data is king here. We run a couple thousand incentive programs a year, and by having all the data from those programs in our Personalization Cloud in the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, we can give our customers really valuable insights about making programs work well in their environment and industry."
"Maritz analysts were spending 80–90 percent of their time collecting the data they needed, which left only 10–20 percent of their time for performing analysis. The Maritz Personalization Cloud with Azure SQL Data Warehouse has inverted that relationship, so now they can spend 80–90 percent of their time analyzing the data and only 10–20 percent getting it."
"The cost of storage that Microsoft is offering now is just incredibly small compared to on-premises. Moving to Azure saves us 75 percent of what it would cost to build our own data warehouse."