Scaling cloud solutions to new heights with Microsoft’s partner ecosystem

By Dustin Ward

Companies building cloud solutions (such as independent software vendors (ISVs), SaaS providers, app builders, and more)—have never been more important to the world today. With the continued acceleration of digital transformation, every organization, small or large, in every industry across the globe, will require cloud infrastructure and services to power their business. As customers’ needs…

Join Microsoft Azure at NVIDIA GTC developer conference 2022

By Dustin Ward

The convergence of HPC+AI has opened new pathways for companies and developers worldwide to develop innovative, transformative applications. While this presents a plethora of new business opportunities in fields like academic research, climate modeling, and energy sustainability, they also push the boundaries of compute, data, and process capabilities of the underlying infrastructure so they can…

Meet PCI compliance with credit card tokenization

By Dustin Ward

In building and running a business, the safety and security of your and your customers’ sensitive information and data is a top priority, especially when storing financial information and processing payments are concerned. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)1 defines a set of regulations put forth by the largest credit card companies…

Microsoft DDoS protection response guide

By Dustin Ward

Receiving Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack threats? DDoS threats have seen a significant rise in frequency lately, and Microsoft stopped numerous large-scale DDoS attacks last year. This guide provides an overview of what Microsoft provides at the platform level, information on recent mitigations, and best practices. Microsoft DDoS platform Microsoft provides robust protection against…

Microsoft Azure expands to new region in the China market

By Dustin Ward

Since March 1, 2022, a new Azure region in North China will gain unrestricted access by customers, which adds the fifth Azure region to the China market and doubles the capacity of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud portfolio in China. Announced in 2012, and officially launched in March 2014 with two initial regions, Microsoft Azure operated by…