Preparing for what’s next: Financial considerations for cloud migration

By Dustin Ward

Co-authored by Jorge Magana, Director, Azure Finance (Financial Planning and Analysis). In the kick off blog of this series, I shared our top recommendations to accelerate your cloud migration journey, one of which was around aligning key stakeholders across your organization. As you move through assessments and plan your migration, it is critical to get…

Protecting Windows Virtual Desktop environments with Azure Security Center

By Dustin Ward

With massive workforces now remote, IT admins and security professionals are under increased pressure to keep everyone productive and connected while combatting evolving threats. Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and application virtualization service running in Azure, delivering simplified management for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). While organizations go through this transformation, allowing their employees…

Azure Data Factory Managed Virtual Network

By Dustin Ward

Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, easy-to-use, serverless data integration, and transformation solution to ingest and transform all your data. Choose from over 90 connectors to ingest data and build code-free or code-centric ETL/ELT processes. Security is a key tenet of Azure Data Factory. Customers want to protect their data sources and hope that…

Microsoft Azure IoT Connector for FHIR now in preview

By Dustin Ward

Today, Microsoft released the preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR—a fully managed feature of the Azure API for FHIR. The connector empowers health teams with the technology for a scalable end-to-end pipeline to ingest, transform, and manage Protected Health Information (PHI) data from devices using the security of FHIR® APIs. Telehealth and remote monitoring.…