Michael Weinig AG, a global market leader in wood processing machinery, adopted the Azure Virtual Desktop so employees could work productively from any location. The company also wanted to standardize on a common workplace platform, reduce VPN traffic and lower travel costs. Read the customer story to learn from the company’s experience implementing Azure Virtual Desktop to transition from outdated IT to cloud.

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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.

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