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5 reasons to attend the Azure VMware Solution digital event

Imagine getting more from your VMware workloads by easily extending them to the cloud—and optimizing your costs in the process. Azure VMware Solution, a jointly engineered Microsoft and VMware service, makes this possible.

Azure VMware Solution lets you run your VMware infrastructure natively on Azure. Migrating your on-premises VMware investments and skills to Azure allows you to:

Quickly scale, automate, and modernize your VMware workloads.
Continue using your favorite VMware tools in the cloud, including VMware vSphere, vSAN, and vCenter.
Improve your disaster recovery, business resiliency, and VMware application performance.
Take advantage of Azure management, security, and compliance services.
Respond more quickly to the needs of your customers.
Reduce your IT infrastructure spending.

To show you how simple transitioning to Azure VMware Solution is and highlight the product’s capabilities, Microsoft and VMware are hosting an Azure VMware Solution digital event on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Pacific Time.

Register now for this free event to:

1. Get product insights directly from customers

Find out how organizations significantly enhanced their VMware infrastructure with Azure VMware Solution in these customer interviews during the event keynote:

Learn how the University of Miami—which houses one of the nation’s leading oceanographic institutes and operates in a region known for hurricanes—strengthened its disaster recovery strategy and increased its IT flexibility while reducing costs.
Hear how Carhartt, the global premium workwear brand, increased its workload reliability and delivered easy-to-manage, secure digital workspaces to its employees.

2. See Azure VMware Solution in action

Watch demos of how to migrate your on-premises VMware workloads to the cloud and how to optimize, scale, and automate them there.

3. Take a technical deep dive into the product

Join breakout sessions and instructor-led workshops on topics including:

Learning your way around the Azure VMware Solution architecture.
Understanding the enterprise-scale landing zone considerations.
Deploying and connecting to a private cloud with Azure VMware Solution.
Protecting your data and managing disaster recovery using Azure VMware Solution with VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Simplifying your workload migration to Azure with VMware HCX.

4. Learn about product updates, best practices, and cost-saving programs

Hear from Microsoft and VMware leaders including:

Kathleen Mitford, CVP, Azure Marketing, Microsoft.
Eric Lockard, CVP, Azure Dedicated, Microsoft.
Sumit Dhawan, President, VMware.
Mark Lohmeyer, SVP and GM, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware.

5. Get answers to your technical questions

Ask the product experts your questions about migrating and operating your VMware infrastructure natively on Azure in the live chat Q and A.

Join us on March 23, 2022, to get to know Azure VMware Solution better, hear advice and insights from customers, engage with product insiders, and explore how to quickly and cost-effectively move your VMware investments to the cloud.

Check out the keynotes and event sessions

Beginning at 9:00 AM Pacific Time:

Keynote featuring Microsoft and VMware leadership and customers.

Join Kathleen Mitford (CVP, Microsoft Azure) and Sumit Dhawan (President, VMware) in conversation with Azure VMware Solution customers.
Special guest speakers from:

University of Miami
Carhartt

Product Update and Real-World Demo

Get insider info from Sue Hartford (Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Azure), Eric Lockard (CVP, Microsoft Azure), and Mark Lohmeyer (SVP and GM, VMware) and see Azure VMware Solution in action

Beginning at 10:25 AM Pacific Time:

Azure VMware Solution
Session by Ram Gowrishankar (Partner Group Program Manager, Microsoft)

Simple deployment
Session by Trevor Davis (Senior Technical Specialist, Microsoft) and Emad Younis (Director, Multi-Cloud Center of Excellence, VMware)

Disaster recovery with Azure VMware Solution
Session by Saravanan Manickam (Program Manager, Microsoft)

AVS: Offers to accelerate Azure migration and modernization
Session by Vinoo Srinivas Murali (Director of Business Strategy, Microsoft)

Automating onboarding of Azure VMware Solution
Session by Prasad Gandham (Principal Program Manager, Microsoft) and Sapna Jeswani (Principal Program Manager, Microsoft)

Hands-On Workshop: Azure VMware Solution private cloud deployment and connectivity

Hands-On Workshop: Disaster protection with Azure VMware Solution and VMware Site Recovery Manager

Hands-On Workshop: Azure VMware Solution workload migration with VMware HCX

Microsoft Learn Live: Prepare to migrate VMware workloads to Azure by deploying Azure VMware Solution

Microsoft Learn Live: Deploy disaster recovery using VMware Site Recovery Manager and Azure VMware Solution
Tutorials with Microsoft Senior Cloud Advocates Amy Colyer and Pierre Roman

We hope to see you there!

Extend to the Cloud with Azure VMware Solution
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Pacific Time

Delivered in partnership with VMware.

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The anatomy of a datacenter—how Microsoft's datacenter hardware powers the Microsoft Cloud

Leading hardware engineering at a company known for its vast portfolio of software applications and systems is not as strange as it sounds, as the Microsoft Cloud depends on hardware as the foundation of trust, reliability, capacity, and performance, to make it possible for Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. The underlying infrastructure that powers our 60 plus datacenter regions across 140 countries consists of hardware and systems that sit within the physical buildings of datacenters—enabling millions of customers to execute critical and advanced workloads, such as AI and quantum computing, as well as unleashing future innovations.

Datacenter hardware development is imperative to the evolution of the Microsoft Cloud

As the Microsoft Cloud offers services and products to meet the world’s ever-growing computing demands, it is critical that we continuously design and advance hardware systems and infrastructure to deliver greater performance, higher efficiency, and more resiliency to customers—all with security and sustainability in mind. Today, our hardware engineering efforts and investments focus heavily on roadmap and lifecycle planning, sourcing and provisioning of servers, and innovating to deliver next-generation infrastructure for datacenters. In our new Hardware Innovation blog series, I’ll be sharing some of the hardware development and investments that are driving the most impact for the Microsoft Cloud and making Azure the trusted cloud that delivers innovative, reliable, and sustainable hybrid cloud solutions. But first, let’s look “under the hood” of a Microsoft datacenter:

From server to cloud: the end-to-end cloud hardware lifecycle

Our hardware planning starts with what customers want: capacity, differentiated services, cost-savings, and ultimately the ability to solve harder problems with the help of the Microsoft Cloud. We integrate key considerations such as customer feedback, operational analysis, technology vetting, with evaluation of disruptive innovations into our strategy and roadmap planning, improvement of existing hardware in our datacenters for compute, network architecture, and storage, while future-proofing innovative workloads for scale. Our engineers then design, build, test, and integrate software and firmware into hardware fleets that meet a stringent set of quality, security, and compliance requirements before deploying them into Microsoft’s datacenters across the globe.

Sourcing and provisioning cloud hardware, sustainably and securely

With Microsoft’s scale, the ways in which we provision, deploy, and decommission hardware parts have the potential to drive massive planetary impact. While we work with suppliers to reimagine a more resilient and efficient supply chain using technologies such as blockchain and digital twins, we also aim to have sustainability built into every step of the way. An example of our sustainability leadership is the execution of Microsoft Circular Centers, where servers and hardware that are being decommissioned are repurposed—efforts that are expected to increase the reuse of servers and components by up to 90 percent by 2025. I will be sharing more on our Circular Centers progress this year. We also have in place the Azure Security and Resiliency Architecture (ASRA) as an approach to drive security and resiliency consistently and comprehensively across the Microsoft Cloud infrastructure supply chain.

Innovating to deliver next-generation datacenter infrastructure

We are investigating and developing technology that would allow datacenters to be more agile, efficient, and sustainable to operate while meeting the computing demands of the future. We showcased development in datacenter energy efficiency, such as our two-phase liquid immersion cooling, allowing more densely packed servers to fit in smaller spaces, and addressing processor overclocking for higher computing efficiency with a lower carbon footprint. We also continue to invest in and develop workload-optimized infrastructure—from servers, racks, systems, to datacenter designs—for more custom general-purpose offerings as well as specialized compute such as AI, high-performance computing, quantum, and beyond.

Building the most advanced and innovative hardware for the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge

The journey of building Microsoft Cloud’s hardware infrastructure is an exciting and humbling one as we see continual advancement in technology to meet the needs of the moment. I have been in the hardware industry for more than thirty years—yet, I’m more excited each day as I work alongside leaders and experts on our team, with our partners across the industry, and with the open source community. Like many of the cloud services that sit on top of it, Microsoft’s hardware engine runs on consistency in quality, reliability, and scalability. Stay tuned as we continue to share more deep dives and updates of our cloud hardware development, progress, and results—and work to drive forward technology advancement, enable new capabilities, and push the limits of what we can achieve in the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge.

Learn more

Learn more about Microsoft’s global infrastructure.
Take a virtual tour of Microsoft’s datacenters.
Discover career opportunities in Azure hardware with Microsoft.

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Docker’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine

Docker is closely following the events surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The community of Docker employees, Docker Captains, developers, customers, and partners is committed to creating an open, collaborative environment that fosters the free and peaceful exchange of ideas. The tragedy unfolding in Ukraine is in opposition to what our community stands for and weighs heavily on our minds and hearts.

Docker stands with the members in our Ukrainian community and the sovereign nation of Ukraine. As the situation continues to evolve, we want to provide an update on Docker’s response. We will not do business with Russian companies during this period. As such, we have removed the ability to purchase Docker subscriptions from Russia and Belarus. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will keep you informed with updates from Docker. 

Additionally, we are committed to supporting Ukraine’s fight for continued sovereignty and independence. On behalf of all Docker employees, we are making donations to UNICEF , Razom and Doctors without Borders earmarked to help Ukrainian citizens. 

#StandWithUkraine

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Amazon Kendra fügt Rechtschreibprüfung für Suchanfragen hinzu

Amazon Kendra ist ein intelligenter Suchdienst, der auf Machine Learning basiert und Organisationen dabei hilft, ihren Kunden und Mitarbeitern mehr relevante Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen, wenn sie sie benötigen. Von heute an können AWS-Kunden den Spell Checker (Rechtschreibprüfung) von Amazon Kendra verwenden, um Korrekturen für falsch geschriebene Wörter in einer Suchanfrage vorzuschlagen.
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