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

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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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Unit4 Reduces Go to Market by 50 Percent and Future-Proofs Business by Transitioning to Azure

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform offers a toolbox full of services for creating new applications. In this customer story, learn how Unit4 — a provider of ERP solutions to non-profits, universities and other services organizations — leverages multiple Azure services to develop cloud-based ERP solutions. Resources such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Service and Azure Migrate are four of the many Azure resources used in Unit4’s project. Read the story and learn the many cloud services you can create with the Azure platform.

Zero Trust Will Replace Your VPN by 2025 – Here’s Why and How You Can Prepare

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Remote work and the continuing threat of cyber-attacks are driving organizations to find better security frameworks. The solution may be a zero-trust framework which is a stringent, layered approach that assumes no user is automatically trustworthy.

Research firm Gartner forecasts that zero-trust access is the security framework of the future and will replace virtual private networks by 2025. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn Gartner’s predictions and advice in this article. Read it here.

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How We Keep the Microsoft Cloud Up and Running

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Curious to see where, and how, the Microsoft Cloud operates?

The video we’ve included here takes you behind the scenes to Microsoft’s operations rooms where highly trained technicians and AI monitor the data center’s critical infrastructure.

Customers like you expect a resilient and secure computing environment. Microsoft helps us meet your expectations with teams of cyber security experts monitoring trillions of threat signals daily, as well as software engineers worldwide who track response times and performance as well as power, cooling and other data center systems.

Watch the video.

Reply to this email to discuss how our team of Microsoft experts can help you benefit from a secure, resilient computing environment in the Microsoft Cloud.

Collect and Query Graphics Data for Azure Virtual Desktop Connections

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Graphics data logs for Azure Virtual Desktop are in public preview.

You can set up the diagnostics table in Azure Log Analytics and collect graphics data for your Azure Virtual Desktop connections. The graphics data table generates information whenever end-to-end delay and dropped frames percentages fall below a healthy threshold for Azure Virtual Desktop. This table helps administrators understand performance factors across the server, client and network that could be contributing to slow or choppy end-user experiences. Read the article here.

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