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When the pandemic hit, the New York Suffolk County Clerk's Office faced two challenges: Ensuring staff could continue working in a safe environment and protecting billions of dollars in local real estate transactions. What did the Clerk's Office do? It partnered with VMware to implement a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with VMware Horizon and VMware Carbon Black Cloud for added security. How successful were their efforts? Read the full story in this article. Reply to this email to discuss how our experts can help your security team successfully address your organization's cybersecurity challenges. Read More...

Dynamics 365 is a suite of modern commerce solutions that work together to connect your entire business. This blog outlines the Dynamics 365 applications you can use to address a variety of business needs. Scan the list and watch the short video embedded to see how Dynamics 365 helps you streamline business operations, enhance inventory management and optimize order fulfillment. Read More...

Why should you deploy traditional and cloud-native applications on the Red Hat OpenShift container and Kubernetes platform? This video makes the answer crystal clear. Watch it to see how Red Hat OpenShift leads the way to a simpler, more consistent, Kubernetes-powered hybrid cloud application platform.

This guide is a helpful primer for enterprise architects and IT leaders tasked with mapping out approaches to tackling modern IT strategies. Brought to you by Army Of Quants, it focuses on the convergence of three trends: - The link between IT systems and organizational success - IT shifts driven by hybrid cloud - Combining cloud-native application development technologies with existing approaches to maximize IT productivity and functionality View: Cloud-Native Meets Hybrid Cloud: A Strategy Guide

As desktop and app virtualization becomes the de facto standard for office computing, many IT admins may find the process of provisioning and managing numerous virtual sessions to be onerous. A VMware Horizon 8 VDI environment allows IT admins to deploy and provision virtual desktops and accompanying apps quickly and easily, potentially saving time in an admin's workday. Additionally, Horizon can enable remote workers to be more productive by reducing time spent trying to access essential resources. View: Scale Virtual Desktops Faster and Provision Virtual Apps More Easily with VMware Horizon and VMware App Volumes

Clark County, Nevada was one year into a three-year mobility plan with VMware when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Read the customer story to learn how VMware Workspace ONE helped employees across multiple departments pivot to remote work and deliver better access to crucial services in a 'work from anywhere' culture. Read More...

Because of continuous business growth, TDS—a Tianjin-based subsidiary of Denso Group—decided that it needed a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for office workers. TDS built its virtual desktop solution on VMware's Horizon to improve efficiency and accelerate the company's digital transformation. Read the customer story to learn how. Read More...

VMware SD-WAN has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization. Read the blog to gain additional insight on how VMware SD-WAN can protect federal agencies' highly sensitive, unclassified information within a cloud environment. Read More...

With ransomware growing in sophistication every day, companies everywhere are rethinking security and reprioritizing IT spending. Analyst and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates polled security practitioners in 20 industries to learn what their organizations are doing to fight ransomware. Nearly half of the organizations in the report had suffered a ransomware attack. Don't be next. Read the report to find out what you can do to keep your organization protected. View: Ransomware: How Increasing Attacks are Changing the Enterprise's Security Priorities and Spending

ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO KG is a long-established company in Germany that recently expanded its portfolio to include digital products and solutions such as robotic mowers and a connected platform. It relies on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service to meet constantly evolving market demands with decentralized sales and service processes. Get the story on how Dynamics 365 helps STIHL deliver consistent, authentic experiences across all touchpoints. Read More...

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage provides persistent container-native storage for the Red Hat OpenShift Container platform. Watch this video for a look at how it dynamically provisions shared storage with a uniform storage experience on bare metal, virtual machines or in the hybrid cloud.

Among the many benefits of Microsoft Entra Verified ID is that it can help ensure organizations consistently match the most qualified person with the right project. Request a free consultation with one of our experts to discuss how Army Of Quants can help you improve security with remote access and verifiable IDs enabled by technology solutions like Microsoft Entra. View: Improve security with remote access and verifiable ID's

When it comes to modernizing security, many organizations default to the mentality that "it just needs to work". With VMware Carbon Black Cloud, you can extend the depth and reach of your security with a zero-trust approach. Watch the video to gain insight on how VMware Carbon Black Cloud can help you block the latest threats and implement zero trust policies that align with your organization's risk profile and cybersecurity posture.

Manufacturers have a plethora of different applications, services, tools and devices in their factories, distribution centers and offices. Each is a potential attack surface to a cyber-criminal. Manufacturers also often have multiple standalone security products that have accumulated over time. Altogether you've got a chaotic environment that is difficult to monitor and secure. This eBook explains why manufacturers should implement a security platform that can act as an integrated web to police and defend the entire enterprise, not just one or two silos. Download the eBook, "Simplify Your Zero-Trust Journey." View: Simplify Your Zero-Trust Journey

Managing all your virtual desktops and apps across multiple clusters, clouds and physical locations can easily become overwhelming, time-consuming and costly. This white paper shows how VMware Horizon Control Plane can reduce VDI management costs and complexity with a single control plane for managing all your workloads, no matter where they're hosted. Download the white paper for an overview of Control Plane Services including image management, app management and universal brokering. View: Reduce Management Overhead by Transforming VDI and App Management with the VMware Horizon Control Plane

Meet Microsoft's cloud VDI solution with centralized security, management and scalability built in. It's an efficient and flexible approach to desktop virtualization without compromising control. Watch this demo video for an introduction and full tour of Azure Virtual Desktop Essentials including what it is, how it works and options for configuration.

This data sheet gives detail on Red Hat runtimes. Read it for an overview of features and benefits. Find out how it can help build more reliable, adaptable technologies. View:   Red Hat Application Run Times

By automating operations and streamlining lifecycle management, Red Hat OpenShift empowers development teams to build applications faster and scale intelligently across the hybrid cloud. Watch this video for insight.

When Adobe wanted to enhance employee experiences and implement Zero Trust, it turned to VMware Workspace ONE and Carbon Black Cloud. Read the customer story to learn how the solution makes remote access of enterprise applications easier and more secure. Read More...

Developing a strategy for modernizing IT is an enormous challenge. We can help. Please consider registering for a free Digital Transformation Readiness Assessment with one of our manufacturing experts. We can get your going on your digital transformation journey. View: Digital Transformation Readiness Assessment

The cloud has helped emergency call operator NNO speed response and ensure scalability during peak times. All NNÖ workspaces are equipped with VMware Horizon, a commercial desktop and app virtualization solution, which enables the service to flexibly scale operations of its control centers and VoIP-based telephony systems. The new VMware Horizon system has saved NNO money and, more importantly, time in answering critical calls. Get the story. View: Notruf Niederosterreich Achieves Flexibility in Operating Emergency Control Centers

Microsoft is putting hardware in charge of data protection in Azure to help customers feel confident about sharing data with authorized parties within the cloud environment. This blog provides an overview of a series of hardware security announcements to highlight Azure's confidential computing offerings. Read the blog to learn how advances in Azure confidential computing deliver the ultimate in data protection. Read More...

Oftentimes the best and most creative ideas come from within an organization, as professional services and technology provider Avanade recently found out. Read the blog to gain insight on how Microsoft Entra Verified ID helped enable this as the company shifted from owning all the identities and credentials to the users controlling their own credentials—when they want to use them and what they want to share. Read More...

How prepared is your organization to migrate to the cloud? Army Of Quants offers assessment services to help you gain insight into your stage in the cloud journey as well as your cloud-readiness strengths and challenges. Request a Cloud Transformation Readiness Consultation with one of our public sector IT experts when you schedule direct. View: Meeting Request

Try before you buy is always good advice. That's why you should take advantage of a free consultation with one of our experts on Azure Virtual Desktop and how it can help you create a secure, flexible and adaptive hybrid cloud environment. Sign up for the Free Azure Virtual Desktop consultation today. View: Free Virtual Desktop Consultation

 Red Hat® OpenShift ® is a certified Kubernetes platform and one of the first vendor offerings of its kind to pass the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Kubernetes conformance assessment. Yet Red Hatters still hear the question, "Is Red Hat OpenShift really Kubernetes?" The answer is a definitive "yes." Get this eBook to understand why and discover how it eases the transition to containers and Kubernetes. View:  Red Hat OpenShift & Kubernetes: What's the Difference

Red Hat was named a leader among 8 multicloud container platform vendors in the Forrester Wave for Multicloud Container Development Platform report. Get the report to learn why Red Hat OpenShift received the highest scores in three categories — Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence — with the maximum possible score in two: Strategy and Market Presence. View:  Forrester WaveTM: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020

This data sheet gives an overview of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Read it to learn how Red Hat OpenShift can help customers get the most from cloud-native applications with a more agile, service- and API-based development environment, continuous delivery and faster time-to-market. View:  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Deciding on an endpoint security solution can be difficult. Get this eBook for insight on requirements you should look for when selecting a solution and preparation tips for running a test-drive. View: How to Test Next-Generation Antivirus Solutions

A challenge your organization faces today is how to seamlessly support distributed workspaces without limitation or complexity. The goal is simple: To create an agile workspace in which employees can securely work from anywhere, at any time, on any device. But achieving that goal in a cost-effective manner can be anything but simple. That's where VMware Horizon, an industry-leading desktop virtualization platform, can make all the difference. Get this eBook to discover how VMware Horizon provides a highly flexible and cost-effective solution that leverages the hybrid cloud to enable your employees to work however, wherever and whenever they choose. View: A Guide to Agile Change Management

Keeping pace with digital transformation isn't easy, particularly when your company is mainly focused on pulling rocks from the ground. This customer success story highlights how an IoT security solution became a top priority for global lime and minerals producer Lhoist to keep digital transformation from stalling. Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT has enabled Lhoist's critical OT equipment to be more connected to the plant's IT network, which is in turn connected to the larger organization's corporate IT network. With 80 plants in more than 25 countries, this unifying of IT security with industrial automation was a critical factor in the company's continued digital transformation evolution. Read the story to learn from Lhoist's experience. Read More...

When insurance provider Groupama decided to move to cloud-native application development to keep pace with market demands, it turned to Red Hat OpenShift. Read the success story to discover how the Red Hat OpenShift Container platform helps Groupama benefit from a new and improved, more agile and efficient development environment! View: Insurance Provider Speeds Development

Antivirus software has evolved. How do you know if you're keeping pace? What do you look for when evaluating antivirus solutions? Reply to tell us how we can help.

Government agencies use multiple private and public clouds. These cloud environments must comply with security regulations and provide mobile access to government services. Learn how government agencies are doing in their cloud journey. Read this research by Forrester Consulting. The report evaluates the cloud decisions and progress made by 501 government agency leaders in the U.S. and Canada. You can download the report here. View: State of the Union for Multi-Cloud in Government

When Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia consolidated several of its campuses into one in downtown Melbourn, it also decided to transform its learning model to smaller class sizes with remote access to coursework. The university turned to VMware Horizon and VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for its digital transformation. The result is easier and faster access to coursework for students. For the university, it's helped them to administer a larger number of classes and less money spent on expensive hardware. Any laptop or desktop can serve as virtual desktops. Download the customer story and learn how VU successfully implemented virtual desktops for remote learning. View: Victoria University Digitally Transformed to Widen Students Flexible Learning Opportunities

Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs in the cloud. A 2-minute read, this article shows 6 tasks you can do when you run Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure. Read the blog for a walkthrough. Read More...

This blog explores the security risks inherent with IoT/OT and concludes adoption is critical even with the security challenges. In addition, it provides a link to a collaborative report from Microsoft and the Ponemon Institute highligting data on the state of IoT and OT security from a customer's perspective. Read the blog for a review of the research and quantified findings. Read More...

What are 4 essential considerations when defining a hybrid cloud strategy? Use this checklist from RedHat as a helpful guide. View:  Hybrid Cloud Strategy Checklist

There are a lot of great reasons to use the cloud for desktop virtualization including high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR), data center expansion, bursting, app colocation and business continuity. The question is, how to best get there? Read this playbook to find out. It covers the big picture of desktop virtualization, and how the VMware Horizon platform's many flexible deployment options can provide a fast and simple cloud journey that works with your current infrastructure investments and your business objectives. Download the playbook now and start planning your VDI cloud journey. View: Playbook for Your Journey to the Cloud

Management inefficiencies contribute in a big way to unforeseen costs. Army Of Quants can help you minimize costs and maximize efficiency. Receive a free IT Management Process & Infrastructure Review when you schedule direct. View: IT Management Process & Infrastructure Review

Cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated and pose a tremendous risk to targets with decentralized systems. Read the VMware datasheet for insight on how Carbon Black Cloud reduces risk with endpoint protection that adapts to your business. View: VMware Carbon Black Cloud

The financial services sector is rapidly modernizing apps and IT infrastructure. Major banks are intensifying efforts to cut costs, decrease risk and improve customer service through digital transformation. As Sumit Dhawan, president of VMware says, "The CIOs of today are the ones who are painting the business picture of the future." Find out more in this survey of CIOs in the financial services sector. Download the report here: View: The Financial Services CIO of 2025: Leading Technology-Driven Growth

Read the Microsoft blog to learn about a feature that gives IT admins control over when the Azure Virtual Desktop agent, side-by-side stack and Geneva Monitoring agent get updated. Read More...

Protecting an organization's network and data is paramount. Employees are at risk too if their passwords are compromised and access is not restricted in the event of a cyberattack. View: It's time to fortify your data! Get a free 1-on-1 risk assessment

Moving data and apps to the cloud requires a well-researched strategy. What's your strategy for migrating to the #cloud? RT to start a conversation. Reply to get our advice.

Unmatched volumes of data inform Microsoft security solutions. Check out this infographic to see how Microsoft helps prevent security risks and protect corporate data regardless of volume. View: Fortify Your Data Against Threats

This solution guide gives a comprehensive look at the path to cloud-native applications. Read it to discover eight steps to successful cloud native application development. View:  Eight Steps to Cloud Native-Application Development

Neurothink was looking for a way to deliver capable, reliable, efficient and cost-effective ML-as-a-Service solutions. Read the customer story to learn how VMware helped remove the barriers to making AI and ML more accessible. Read More...

This infographic illustrates how with Azure Virtual Desktop, IT teams can focus more on users, apps and OS images instead of hardware inventory and maintenance.

Want better security with enhanced access control? Monitor apps and services, protect data and control access to resources with @msftsecurity solutions from Army Of Quants.

VMware's vSAN storage virtualization product is widely used by manufacturers as well as in office environments. Manufacturers typically need to support a variety of proprietary software and data that is not a good fit for running in the cloud. vSAN enables them to aggregate local or direct-attached storage devices to create a single storage pool shared across all hosts in a vSAN cluster. To learn more about vSAN's storage optimization capabilities, read the blog article "vSAN in Industrial Environments." Read More...

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Get your guide to tackling modern IT strategy with native and hybrid cloud technologies. Download the eBook, "Cloud-Native Meets Hybrid Cloud: A Strategy Guide." Created by Red Hat, it provides best practices for combining cloud-native and hybrid cloud strategies to build robust, productive IT systems. View: Cloud-native meets hybrid cloud: A Strategy Guide

Is your organization's IT approach to desktop and app management ready for digital transformation? Download this Microsoft eBook to learn how to strike the perfect balance between user experience, security and IT overhead. View: It's Time to Create a Modern Digital Workspace Experience

It can be complicated to choose the best next-generation endpoint security solution for your organization. Get this VMware eBook to learn how to replace antivirus and find the right endpoint security solution that is cost effective, easy to deploy and easy to manage. View: Replace AV Buyer's Guide

Choosing an endpoint security solution can be a challenge. To help, SANS Institute created a guide to evaluating solutions. It includes core requirements to look for and preparation tips for running a test. Our technology partner, VMware, summarizes the SANS Institute guidelines in the eBook, "How to Test Next-Generation Antivirus Solutions." Download the eBook for guidance and a look at the 7 steps SANS recommends following when performing an endpoint security test drive. View: How to Test Next-Generation Antivirus Solutions

Delivering a secure remote work platform that increases user productivity and remains cost effective isn't an easy task. Read the datasheet to learn how VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is enabling remote work from the cloud quickly and securely. View: VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure automatically uncovers attack vectors that can lead to broader exploits, offering full protection from any attack on your system. Watch this video showing how Microsoft Azure can detect and stop attacks on your IT infrastructure on demand.

Want innovation without limitation? This video highlights three reasons developers choose Red Hat® OpenShift® to build and deploy applications across multiple infrastructures. Watch the video to discover how Red Hat OpenShift empowers developers to stay focused on writing their best code — instead of fighting infrastructure.

Do you still think traditional antivirus and firewall protection efforts provide sufficient security? Reply if you're looking for a way to replace antivirus without headaches.

Do you need to optimize your storage resources? Then you also need to know about VMware's vSAN HCI mesh technology. VMware's HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) Mesh is a new architecture part of VMware vSAN that lets vSAN software-defined storage clusters remotely mount the datastore of another vSAN cluster. Combined with the (HCI) Mesh architecture, it lets you store data across multiple clusters on inexpensive, preconfigured x86 servers. To learn more about vSAN and HCI Mesh, read this article: "Why HCI Mesh." Read More...

What best practices do you follow when testing antivirus solutions? Reply if you'd like a consultation.

What are your digital workspace options? Meet with a Microsoft Azure expert to discuss. View: Free Cloud Adoption Assessment

What 3 industries are hit hardest by ransomware? Take a guess and check back next week for insight. 💡 Like this post if you'd like help assessing your cloud needs and how @Microsoft #Azure can address them with a Army Of Quants expert.