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6 Tips to Integrate Security into Your DevOps Practices

DevOps proven practices illustrate how collaboration between developer and operations teams leads to faster software delivery. Now, the issue facing digital leaders is the security and compliancy of their code, workflows, and infrastructure. The logical next step: integrate your security team with the existing DevOps team—breaking down another organizational silo. The most challenging part of…

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Azure Sentinel Migration Fundamentals

This white paper is designed to give you an overview of best practices and considerations for transitioning your security operations to Microsoft Azure Sentinel. We’ll look at processes for a direct migration, as well as how to run Azure Sentinel in a side- by-side configuration with your legacy security information and event management (SIEM) solution.…

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Zero Trust Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things

In this paper we review the principles of Zero Trust security, and the aspects of IoT that make proactive application of Zero Trust to IoT different than its application to the workforce. The key capabilities of Zero Trust for IoT are defined for companies with an IoT strategy, and next steps highlight Microsoft solutions enabling…

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Build the critical infrastructure services of the future with Microsoft Azure

Managing and improving critical infrastructure, including utilities, transportation services, and urban innovation and digital services, is one of the most important functions of many public and private sector organizations around the world. In this paper, we look at some of the key challenges for critical infrastructure and how solutions available in Microsoft Azure can help…

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

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Aboard the analytics train? Machine Learning is Your Next Stop

 If your organization is data-driven, business intelligence-savvy and/or into big data analytics, you know the amount of work that goes into setting up the infrastructure, acquiring the skills and building the culture necessary to sustain it. But did you know that investment puts you on the cusp of being an AI-driven organization too? While most…

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Responsible AI with Azure Machine Learning

Tools and methods to understand, protect, and control your models In this paper, we’ll share some of the tools and methods thathelp our IT teams honor our AI principles. The same tools we use internally are available to everyone in Azure Machine Learning, which provides state-of-the-art capabilities to help users understand, protect, and control their…

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MLOps with Azure Machine Learning

Accelerating the process of building, training, and deploying models at scale Enterprise organizations in nearly every industry are increasingly making machine learning (ML) initiatives a priority. Machine learning models are at the core of many AI use cases from predictive maintenance and recommendations to anomaly detection and dynamic pricing. Modern machine learning algorithms and frameworks…

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Machine Learning Solutions With Enterprise Security and Scale

Empowering organizations to build secure, scalable, and equitable ML solutions with Azure Machine Learning AI is not the future—it’s now. Across industries, leading businesses and organizations are leveraging AI to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the world. Among top enterprises, 50% report that their companies have adopted AI in at least one business…

Data & Analytics

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Microsoft Azure: The CDO Seat at the Cloud Table

The global data landscape is now more complex than ever. Chief Data Officers (CDOs) across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific have experienced extraordinary opportunities to manage enterprise data assets to fuel data-driven decision-making. However, many grapple with issues created by digital disruption, cybersecurity threats, privacy and compliance, and stakeholder demand for higher levels of…

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The Scientist, The Engineer, and The Warehouse

Building the right team for data analytics in the age of cloud. Introduction “I need to hire a data scientist!” We hear this call, urgent and animated, from Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technical Officers (CTOs) almost every week. We understand. It’s easy to get excited about new technology, especially when it promises a shortcut…

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Aboard the analytics train? Machine Learning is Your Next Stop

 If your organization is data-driven, business intelligence-savvy and/or into big data analytics, you know the amount of work that goes into setting up the infrastructure, acquiring the skills and building the culture necessary to sustain it. But did you know that investment puts you on the cusp of being an AI-driven organization too? While most…

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The Power BI Professional’s Guide to Azure Synapse Analytics

This guide introduces Power BI practitioners to Azure Synapse Analytics—a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. On the surface, Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved. However, it’s much more than just a few new capabilities in an update of SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse represents…

Azure Platform

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Empower IT and Data Professionals to Achieve More with All Their Data

A guide to migrating existing processes to Azure Synapse Analytics Many companies today have long had analytical data warehouses in place in their data centers to support decision making in different parts of their business. Sales, marketing, and finance departments in particular are heavy users of such systems producing standard reports and dashboards. They also…

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The View from Customers That Have Taken the Journey with Microsoft Azure

Executive Summary Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation efforts in 2020 and 2021 have accelerated dramatically. This year, 95.5% of enterprises are implementing a digital platform, compared with 91.8% in 2019, according to a July IDC survey. Meanwhile, approaches to digital transformation are diverging. Many companies have retreated from a vision where a single…

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Migrate to the cloud and track your progress with Azure Migrate

As public cloud computing has matured, more organizations are migrating their existing on-premises data and applications to the cloud. Reasons to migrate include the ability to achieve improved governance, security and cost efficiencies. In the past, migration required a sense of adventure and a pioneering spirit. The process was daunting, and complexity increased dramatically without…

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Azure Resiliency – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

This document focuses on the resiliency aspect of Azure. It provides guidance on designing resilient applications on Azure and provides sample application design patterns for varied levels of resilience. The audience for this document is anyone moving applications from on-premises to Azure, or building applications on Azure, including CTOs, CIOs, Cloud Solution Architects, Business Continuity…