Thursday, November 28, 2024

The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers

Learn from Microsoft's recent findings on the dynamic landscape of hybrid work for engineers. Read the blog for a summary of Microsoft's in-depth research on hybrid work challenges, opportunities and practical solutions for engineers.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

CentOS migration

The end of life for CentOS Linux has created a need for users to choose a new OS. Watch this video to understand the additional benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and learn how the Red Hat migration tool, Convert2RHEL, can ease your migration project.

Cyber Signals Feb 2024

In this eBook by Microsoft, you'll get an overview of key cybersecurity trends, including the role of AI in cyberattacks and cyber defense. The eBook also offers advice on protecting your organization. Download it here. 👇

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What Is the New Hushed Hybrid Work Trend?

The new hushed hybrid work trend has employees colluding with the managers to allow work-from-home days in secret. This trend has both benefits and drawbacks-as well as far reaching implications for business ops and talent acquisition.

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Accelerating Your Human Resources Digital Journey

What can you digitize next? Dea Allgood, a successful architect and DocuSign customer, shares her experiences working with HR organizations. She explains that even though most companies want to start small and implement DocuSign for a single use case (like digitizing new hire offer letters), it usually doesn't stop there. Read her advice on how to get started with automating more HR processes in your organization today.

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HEINEKEN connects employees with information across the company using Azure AI Services

Many forward-thinking corporations are using technology to build connections between its management and the information they need to make impactful, data-driven decisions. Read this insightful customer story about how Heineken uses Azure OpenAI to bring innovation to its business processes.

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5 ways to secure identity and access for 2024 | Microsoft Security Blog

Cyber threats are rising rapidly with 30 billion attempted password attacks per month, according to Microsoft. AI is helping attackers by launching and automating new and sophisticated cyberattacks. The best defense is a comprehensive strategy that incorporates identity access management and Microsoft AI-powered CoPilot. Read this Microsoft article to get advice for protecting your organization from cyberattacks in 2024

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Aon scales and standardizes global HR with DocuSign

Aon is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement, and health solutions. With over 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries, they decided it was time to streamline their worldwide HR operations with DocuSign for HR. Learn how they benefited from shifting to one global HR system and how DocuSign is helping them manage their international growth.

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Monday, November 25, 2024

Announcing Public Preview of Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop

Good news! You can now preview Microsoft's Personal Desktop Autoscale, which is Azure Virtual Desktop's native scaling solution that automatically starts session host virtual machines according to schedule. With Personal Desktop Autoscale, you can save costs by shutting down idle session hosts while ensuring session hosts can be started by users when needed. Find out more in this article.

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Azure OpenAI Service: 10 ways generative AI is transforming businesses

Generative AI is proving to be an essential tool in many industries, creating realistic images and videos that enhance the customer experience. Read this enlightening blog about the ten ways generative AI is being used by organizations to transform their operations and drive growth.

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How AI-Powered Immunoscience is Transforming Healthcare

See how new AI tech is helping to make connections between diseases once thought to be unrelated, unlock treatment options, and usher in a new era of drug discovery. Interested in exploring how AI can transform your industry or business? Just hit reply to schedule a demo of a customizable AI solution.

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Cloud computing in the United States - statistics & facts

Discover all statistics and data on Cloud computing in the United States now on statista.com!

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Cybersecurity Has a Talent Shortage. Here's How to Close the Gap

By embracing future-ready workforce practices to close the cybersecurity talent gap, employers will be in a better position to capitalize on opportunities and address emerging threats. Cybersecurity experts at are ready to help you strengthen your security posture.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Introducing Microsoft Surface Hub 3

This video highlights the Surface Hub 3 in a live demonstration of its features and configurations.

Reinventing Microsoft's Employee Experience for a Hybrid World

Explore Microsoft's transformative journey to a secure and empowering hybrid work environment. Get lessons learned by the tech leader when it transformed employee experience and made strategic investments in technologies like Microsoft Viva, Teams, Azure Digital Twins and the Power Platform to foster innovation and collaboration among employees working remotely and in-office. Read the case study for tips on how to apply these lessons to your organization's hybrid work strategy.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Cybersecurity professionals need to keep up to date on the latest cyber-threat trends. This report from Microsoft analysts covers the threat landscape from IoT and infrastructure threats to disinformation campaigns, ransomware, and guidelines for thwarting these complex new threats. Each chapter provides the key lessons learned and insights based on Microsoft's unique vantage point. The trillions of signals that Microsoft analyzes from its worldwide ecosystem of products and services reveal the ferocity, scope, and scale of digital threats across the globe. You and your security team can read this comprehensive report on threats and Microsoft technologies that identify and block billions of phishing attempts, identity thefts, and other cyber-threats to Microsoft customers.

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4 Strategies to Address the Biggest Challenges in Data Security

The rapidly growing volume of data, structured and unstructured, stored in diverse places makes data security more challenging than ever. In this eBook, you'll get a quick but advanced view of the top challenges in data security today and advice for overcoming them. Download your complimentary copy of the eBook to dissect the how and why of understanding and protecting data and defending against identity-based threats.

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Off-boarding doesn't have to be a painful process

How organizations manage the off-boarding process is just as important as how they facilitate onboarding. This is especially true if and when retired employees decide to review your company on job sites or return to your organization in the future. Learn how you can deliver digital experiences that leave a lasting impression with DocuSign for HR. That way, when employees leave your payroll, they will continue to be brand ambassadors for your organization.

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The Business Value of Red Hat Solutions Versus Non-Paid Open Source Alternatives

Linux has become the de facto choice of developers and IT departments around the world, but it comes in many varieties, some paid and some non-paid. Why would anyone choose to pay? Read this analyst report for answers. Research firm IDC spoke with organizations using Red Hat products to understand the value of paying for supported solutions instead of non-paid alternatives with self-support. See what they have to say.

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Hybrid Work is Just Work. Are We Doing it Wrong?

On the topic of hybrid work, employees and employers are divided. Employees are embracing hybrid work and its benefits. Many employers on the other hand, are yearning for a return to pre-Covid office life while dealing with challenges such as shrinking budgets and tight talent markets. To help leaders balance employee interests and organizational success, Microsoft surveyed 20,000 people worldwide and analyzed trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, LinkedIn labor trends and Glint People Science findings. The data points to three pivots leaders must make to empower people for new ways of working. Read this blog to explore three pivots to help employees thrive and organizations succeed.

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Using a self-supported, non-paid open-source solution? In development, free isn't always free. Tell us if you'd like to learn why @RedHat is a better value. #opensource #RedHat

Using a self-supported, non-paid open-source solution? In development, free isn't always free. Tell us if you'd like to learn why @RedHat is a better value. #opensource #RedHat

Monday, November 18, 2024

Many Businesses Are Nearing the Completion of Their Cloud Migrations

Within three years, many organizations will be running most applications on public clouds, new CDW research finds.

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Hybrid work is growing the fastest in these 5 industries

Among the top categories, account management work saw the highest growth rate (62%) in hybrid job postings over the past six months. As hybrid work adoption accelerates across most industries, is ready to work with you ensure that your company's hybrid work model is optimized for everything from talent retention to collaboration and profitability.

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Tweelin App for Microsoft Teams

Workplace communication can often be an overlooked annoyance that will slow down your team's productivity significantly. This video shows how Tweelin leverages AI to make real-time conversations simple and effective, eliminating the need for excessive meeting coordination. Watch the video to see how Tweelin can streamline communication and enhance productivity. Contact to learn more about integrating Tweelin into your workspace.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Network automation for everyone

Networks are traditionally built, operated and maintained manually, and despite advances in software-defined technology, network management evolves slowly. Read this eBook to learn why network automation is essential to accelerating operations, and how to overcome the challenges to network automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

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If you're interested in exploring the latest AI advancements and how they benefit business, RT this post. You just might hear from one of our experts on how @Azure and OpenAI are transforming AI.

If you're interested in exploring the latest AI advancements and how they benefit business, RT this post. You just might hear from one of our experts on how @Azure and OpenAI are transforming AI.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Unlocking the power of collaboration

As innovations shape a changing workplace landscape, certain core business priorities remain. Your organization needs to bring people together to strategize, solve problems, and plan for business initiatives and growth. In an increasingly hybridized work environment, it's more important than ever to find ways to stay connected, increase efficiency and boost productivity — all while keeping costs under control. Enter Microsoft Teams Rooms, a Microsoft Teams innovation that removes the barriers between locations and people to delivery hybrid meeting experiences that improve equity and inclusion with tools that work the same anywhere. The eBook, "Unlocking the power of collaboration," provides insight. Download your complimentary copy of the eBook to discover how your organization can maximize hybrid work with Microsoft Teams Rooms.

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Surface Laptop 7th Edition Product Specifications

This solution brief describes the Surface Laptop 7th Edition product capabilities and feature set, along with performance data on the Snapdragon® processors and other technical details.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Microsoft a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service

Before you buy a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solution, you need to know the pros and cons of the leading solutions. Read the full report on Gartner 's Magic Quadrant for DaaS vendors — which includes digital workspace leaders like Microsoft Virtual Desktop. Get the free report. 👉

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Crash Course in Microsoft Purview

With ChatGPT and other AI-powered productivity applications in use in corporate America, companies need to pay attention to the data that is flowing through those AI applications. Safeguarding sensitive data requires a data management and governance plan. In this e-book, you'll learn how the Microsoft Purview data management platform delivers. Download and read the eBook and learn about Purview's platform-based approach that enables information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance across multicloud, multiplatform data estates.

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DocuSign and Workday: The Story from US Acute Care Solutions

US Acute Care Solutions is a leading physician-owned provider of acute care services to more than 200 hospital locations. Now employing over 2,000 physicians and counting, the company needed to modernize its recruiting and onboarding processes. That's why HR decided to implement DocuSign for Workday to combat time-consuming inefficiencies and support company growth at scale. Learn more about the benefits of the company's new streamlined hiring process in this article.

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The automated enterprise

The demands of digitally connected customers, widespread disruption among industries and new competition are all putting competitive pressures on businesses. Read this eBook to learn how IT automation can help improve existing processes, achieve digital transformation initiatives and allow businesses to compete in a digital world.

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Our commitments to advance safe, secure, and trustworthy AI

Microsoft announced its support for the Biden administration's program of voluntary vendor commitments to safer AI applications. The standards aim to ensure that AI systems are secure, and trustworthy. Read about the AI commitments in this article by Microsoft.

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Salesforce streamlines its global recruiting efforts with DocuSign and Workday

Salesforce recruits new employees across five continents to fuel its global growth. Prior to implementing DocuSign for HR, the hiring process was strained by outdated, paper-based agreements. All recruitment teams were forced to manually send and keep tabs on physical offer letters that prolonged the time it took to hire new employees. But once Salesforce implemented DocuSign for HR, it was a different story. DocuSign gave the global organization a faster digital solution that helped their HR department become more competitive in an increasingly crowded job market. Read more about their success in this case study.

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How CHROs can Prevent Top Talent from Leaving

An interview with 12 CHROs and talent leaders across sectors shows HR and talent organizations have a diversity of perspectives on attracting and retaining the best talent. What is clear is that the workforce has changed, and with it, the skills needed to manage it. Read this blog for a closer look.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

Low-code: One of the best investments for IT departments in 2023

IT departments are facing a growing application backlog because of the lack of developers and technical specialists who can produce these solutions. Read this urgent blog about an answer to this problem: low code. This is the solution that empowers IT departments to rapidly build apps and streamline data insights while lowering costs.

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AI Changes Big and Small Computing

Data centers will get bigger, while more processing will move closer to the edge. The exponential growth in data centers necessary to meet AI's computing demands will have massive implications for businesses and the economy.

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The power of purpose-built cloud infrastructure

With the cookie cutter cloud model becoming more obsolete due to cloud requirements varying across different businesses and industries, purpose-built cloud-which can be customized to handle specific workloads, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and greater resource utilization-is quickly gaining steam as the superior alternative. Read the article to learn more.

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'The worst thing you can do' after a data breach, according to a cybersecurity expert

Data breaches are so common that you may be tempted to ignore them altogether. But doing so is a big mistake, cybersecurity experts say.

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Was Hybrid The Wrong Approach To Delivering Workplace Flexibility?

Despite the growth of hybrid workplace policies, many organizations struggle to make them work. A broader, more multi-faceted approach to workplace flexibility can help.

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Cephable and Surface: Revolutionizing Accessibility with NPU-Powered Performance

This video showcases the Cephable and Surface solution that leverages an AI-powered software platform with adaptive control inputs, including voice, camera-based, and multimodal controls, to revolutionize the way disabled workers interact with Surface.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Thanks to #AI and @Microsoft's Power Platform, you've got the power to develop applications faster! Let's start a conversation.

Thanks to #AI and @Microsoft's Power Platform, you've got the power to develop applications faster! Let's start a conversation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: $1.7 Trillion a Year Boost for Customers

This IDC whitepaper explores the cost savings and revenue enhancements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Contact us for a free consultation on implementation options and pricing.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Free Behavioral Technologist Consultation

Focusing on behavior plus technology is how to address hybrid work. Where does mindfulness fit in? For insight, schedule a consultation with a behavioral technologist from iTech DMV Solutions. We're ready to help figure out how best to make hybrid work work for you.

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Cyber Signals Feb 2024

Read this eBook from Microsoft Security revealing how threat actors weaponize AI and how your security team can harness the power of AI to prevent and mitigate cyberattacks.

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Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI

In this article, you'll learn how Microsoft Security and OpenAI are collaborating to ensure that new threats are identified and stopped quickly, as well as information on the top threats and threat actors identified by the Microsoft Security Intelligence Team. The article also shares the five principles that Microsoft follows to ensure its AI technologies can't be hacked and used by cybercriminals. These principles include transparency and collaboration with other AI providers.

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Build solutions faster with Microsoft Power Platform and next-generation AI

Visit Microsoft's Power Platform blog, where we showcase how you can leverage the latest advancements in AI to build solutions faster. In the post, "Build solutions faster with Microsoft Power Platform and next-generation AI," we dive into the challenges of creating applications that require complex decision-making, and how Microsoft's Power Platform and AI help streamline the process. Discover how these solutions can reduce development time and enable you to focus on more critical business challenges. Read this blog post and learn how to leverage Microsoft's Power Platform and next-generation AI to build better, more intelligent applications. Dive in now and take your application development to the next level.

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DocuSign for Workday Solution: Candidate Offer Letter

The DocuSign for Workday integration is the go-to HR solution that digitizes the entire recruiting process, improving experiences for both recruiters and candidates. When competitive candidates begin the application process for a new role, recruiters can immediately take action with a quick and simple way to automate offer letters. Recruit top talent faster by eliminating the need to print, scan, or email PDFs. Watch the video to see how much time can be saved with DocuSign for Workday.

Benefits of migrating from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux provides an ideal platform for modern IT — but your choice of Linux distribution can make a big difference when it comes to efficiency, performance, security and cost. Read this whitepaper to learn the business value of switching from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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From intuitive sharing with OneDrive to driving prioritization with Viva Goals — Here's what's new in Microsoft 365

When the right technology is used correctly, organizations are able to overcome communication challenges and emerge stronger. Read the blog to gain insight into how Microsoft 365 has introduced new sharing experiences in OneDrive, enabling new creation and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft Office.

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Monday, November 4, 2024

Announcing Public Preview of Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop

If you've been hoping to try out the new Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop - now's your chance! Read this article to find out how to access and use this new capability.

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Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot

Get ready for the next generation of AI with Dynamics 365 Copilot. Watch this informative video showing how this handy tool helps drive efficiency, improve customer experiences and deliver insights into your enterprise.

The Billion-Dollar AI Gamble: Data Centers As The New High-Stakes Game

Explore the vital role of data centers in powering AI and the digital economy, and discover why understanding their use cases is key to making successful investments. Read this Forbes article for an excellent overview of the different types of data centers and the critical role they play in today's economy.

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What are the Most Popular Cloud Platforms Among Tech Pros?

For years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) seemed to dominate tech professionals' cloud usage. Is that still the case? Or have competing web platforms made strides in adoption over the past few years?

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The Billion-Dollar AI Gamble: Data Centers As The New High-Stakes Game

Explore the vital role of data centers in powering AI and the digital economy, and discover why understanding their use cases is key to making successful investments. Read this Forbes article for an excellent overview of the different types of data centers and the critical role they play in today's economy.

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Productivity problems persist for HR with hybrid workplace 'fauxductivity'

Half of managers still believe staff are engaging in "fauxductivity" — or faking activity and pretending to work while on the clock, a survey found.

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Becoming a Frontier Firm: Our Frontier Playbook

Curious what separates companies that adopt AI from those that transform with it? The eBook, "Becoming a Frontier Firm: Our Frontier Pl...