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Modernize with Azure Migrate

With the pandemic mostly behind us, several large economies have opened in some shape or form. This, despite the uneven supply of goods and services and higher than usual energy costs. The higher energy cost and the resulting increase in the cost of doing business, has led to a tighter economic outlook. Coupled with long lead times for required parts and continued remote work, datacenter management is harder and costlier than it has been.

 

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Gateway Load Balancer now generally available in all regions

Previously, we announced the public preview release of Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), a new SKU of Azure Load Balancer targeted for transparent NVA (network virtual appliance) insertion supported by a growing list of NVA providers. Today, placing NVAs in the path of traffic is a growing need for customers as their workloads scale.

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Migrate and modernize with Azure to power innovation across the entire digital estate

Cloud adoption increased significantly during COVID-19 and continues for many companies. However, an enormous migration and modernization opportunity remains as organizations continue their digital transformation. In fact, 72 percent of organizations reported their industry’s pace of digital transformation accelerated because of COVID-19, according to a survey sponsored by Microsoft in The Economist. And we don’t expect that to slow down anytime soon.…

 

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Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview

We are excited to announce the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies as well as high input/output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput—at a low cost.

 

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Azure Partner Resources

Azure Express Solution Assessment

Get started on your journey to Azure with a fast, comprehensive, data-driven analysis of your server estate.

 

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Obtain visibility and access to Azure Subscriptions/Reserved Instances

Dicker Data documentation outlines how to obtain visibility and access to Azure Subscriptions and/or Reserved Instances when you may not have such access initially.

 

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Azure operational security checklist

Deploying an application on Azure is fast, easy, and cost-effective. Before deploying cloud application in production useful to have a checklist to assist in evaluating your application against a list of essential and recommended operational security actions for you to consider.

 

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Azure security technical capabilities

Microsoft Azure is the only cloud computing provider that offers a secure, consistent application platform and infrastructure-as-a-service for teams to work within their different cloud skillsets and levels of project complexity, with integrated data services and analytics that uncover intelligence from data wherever it exists, across both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms, open frameworks and tools, providing choice for integrating cloud with on-premises as well deploying Azure cloud services within on-premises datacenters.

 

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Azure security logging and auditing

Azure provides a wide array of configurable security auditing and logging options to help you identify gaps in your security policies and mechanisms. This article discusses generating, collecting, and analyzing security logs from services hosted on Azure.

 

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Azure Quickstart Templates

Deploy Azure resources through the Azure Resource Manager with community contributed templates to get more done. Deploy, learn, fork and contribute back.

 

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Microsoft Cloud Solution Unit (CSU) Migration Factory

Dicker Data and Microsoft are elevating the Azure migration journey, by supporting our partners with funded migrations to Azure.

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Upcoming Events

  • May 2024
Azure Depth Enablement

Azure Depth Enablement

These multi-day training events are packed full of in-depth sessions tailored to provide you with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure. Within the span of a few days, you’ll have gained the expertise to assess customer needs and seamlessly implement Azure solutions from start to finish.  

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Migrate Enterprise Applications

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Optimisation

Thursday, 2 May 2024 - 12:00 - 3:15 PM NZDT

Friday, 3 May 2024 - 12:00 - 3:00 PM NZDT

 

Build the skills you need to create new opportunities and accelerate your understanding of Microsoft Cloud technologies at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn. Join us at Migrate Enterprise Applications to learn how to control costs, improve security and inspire developer innovation as you migrate on-premises web apps to the cloud. You’ll see how to discover, assess and migrate apps to Azure App Service with minimal code changes, using Azure Migrate. You’ll also learn ways to enrich customer experiences using security, load balancing, autoscaling and automated management features in Azure App Service.

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Implementing a Data Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Implementing a Data Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric

Tuesday, 7 May 2024 - 12:00 - 2:00 PM NZDT

Wednesday, 8 May 2024 - 12:00 - 2:15 PM NZDT

 

Join Microsoft at Implementing a Data Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric to learn how to unify your data analytics with the help of AI. Discover how to simplify the extraction of critical insights from your data and use data engineering to streamline the collection, storage, and processing of large volumes of data. You’ll also learn how Fabric uses Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI to simplify and modernize your analytics approach for the era of AI.

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Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 - 3:00 - 6:20 PM NZDT

 

Join Microsoft at Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service to learn how to work with powerful large language models, including GPT. You’ll gain deeper insight into the benefits of natural language processing, including its ability to generate transformative content. You’ll also discover how to provision Azure OpenAI, deploy models, and effectively use language models in generative AI applications.

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Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Fundamentals

Wednesday, 22 May 2024 - 12:00 - 2:30 PM NZDT

Thursday, 23 May 2024 - 12:00 - 2:45 PM NZDT

 

Join Microsoft at Azure Fundamentals to develop an understanding of foundational cloud concepts and expand your knowledge of cloud models and service types. We’ll also review Azure services focused on computing, networking, and storage.

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Accelerate Development using Azure DevOps and GitHub

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Accelerate Development using Azure DevOps and GitHub

Tuesday, 28 May 2024 - 12:00 - 4:00 PM NZDT

Wednesday, 29 May 2024 - 12:00 - 4:10 PM NZDT

 

Build the skills you need to create new opportunities and accelerate your understanding of Microsoft Cloud technologies at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn. Join us at Accelerate Development Using Azure DevOps and GitHub to discover the right tools and processes to make your move to DevOps. We’ll walk you through real-world challenges and show you how to resolve them using Azure DevOps and GitHub—for both admins and end users.

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