Demystifying cloud economics

By Dustin Ward

Migrating to the cloud is an evolution, and it’s important to think differently about how you consume resources. As you’re building a business case in your organization, it’s critical to step back and understand the cloud’s key constructs and transform your mindset. It starts by having a conversation about today versus tomorrow and what is possible in…

Customers unify hybrid and multicloud IT operations with Azure Arc

By Dustin Ward

Businesses today are building and running applications across a variety of ecosystems on-premises, in multiple clouds, and on edge. To maintain agility and ensure compliance, it’s critical to an organization’s success to effectively manage servers, applications, and data at scale—regardless of where they are located. Microsoft Azure Arc is a set of technologies that unlocks new on-premises,…

Future-proof your network with Azure for Operators

By Dustin Ward

Increasing competition and ever-growing demand for mobile, always-on services challenges operators to find new strategies to grow profits and gain a competitive edge. To succeed, operators also need to embrace three critical trends: Changing the economics of their service model. Finding new revenue and shareholder value with 5G. Driving digital transformation, consolidation, and automation. To…

Build regionally resilient cloud services using the Azure Resource Manager

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Altaf Tambawala, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Cloud Services (extended support) and migration to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Today, we are announcing the preview of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services. Cloud Services (extended support) has the primary benefit…