In this one hour live interactive webinar, we will explore:

• Different techniques to secure your Cloudera Enterprise cluster on Azure; and
• The benefits of deploying Cloudera Enterprise on Azure Data Lake Store easily.

As more and more customers explore the benefits of moving to the cloud, many have an increasing need for architectural guidance on the best practices for deployment in their enterprise organizations. Chief among these concerns are security and the best topology to maximize performance and reduce cost for a variety of use cases.
Cloudera's James Morantus will discuss how to use Cloudera Director, Microsoft Active Directory, SAMBA, and SSSD to deploy a secure EDH cluster for workloads in the public Azure cloud. He will be joined by Microsoft Azure Global Black Belt, Ron Abellera who will highlight other benefits of Cloudera on Azure, and deep dive into the new integration with Azure Data Lake Store vs. other storage alternatives.
Register Now:Securing Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub on Microsoft Azure.
Also See:

• Cloudera on Azure: Updates and Resources
• How To Install Cloudera on Azure: Part 1 & Part 2

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In 2016, Kloud-Soft won the Microsoft Singapore Partner Award for Open Source on Azure. And in 2017, they won the National Business Award from Singapore Business Review Magazine in the category of Computer Software System Integration.
With already such a great track record for a growing start-up, we asked Richard Chong, Managing Director at Kloud-Soft, about the company’s aspirations. “In the short term, we hope to have deep domain expertise in the area of workplace solutions, especially in workforce management and as a content service platform. In the long term, we hope to be recognized in Asia as one of the leading providers for analytics on workforce management and as the next generation workplace solution which allows our customers to empower their employees with accurate data, mobile workforce and a collaborative environment.”
Although the company is relatively young, its leadership team offers 10 to 15 years of experience within the space of workforce and enterprise content management. They are also proud of their 100% customer retention rate.
One of Kloud-Soft’s open source projects, Affinity Business Suite is an ERP solution hosted on Microsoft Azure, which is written on Python language and runs on an Ubuntu VM. Kloud-Soft implemented the solution for one of their clients, Richport, which allowed the company to transform its traditional electroplating business, improve its quality of service, and enable seamless growth (see Customer Story).

Why partner with Microsoft?

“We see Microsoft as a Partner-centric organization with new initiatives that empower the partners to grow in terms of business and technology. The Microsoft Azure platform has greatly helped our company streamline our bottom line costs and grow capabilities to provide our services outside of Singapore,” says Mr Chong.
When asked how Microsoft is helping them meet their goals, he says:

“Attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last year for the first time, let me envision the technology of the future and more importantly how such technology can be achieved using Microsoft's cloud platform, Azure. I am now confident that our aspirations can be a reality.”

Mr Chong also offers this advice for others who wish to work with Microsoft as a partner: “Be focused on what you want your product or offering to achieve, and build expertise in a vertical in order to get off to a good start.”

The benefits of using Azure

With a number of options available, why did Kloud-Soft decide to use Azure for their startup business? “We started the company wondering which platform to work with, as we knew we wanted to minimize our infrastructure footprint as well as the resources that are required to maintain them,” answers Mr Chong.

“After getting in touch with a few cloud providers, we realized that Microsoft Azure's PaaS offered great reliability and security, making it one of the leading providers in the market. Azure rolls out so many new services each week that at times we are unable to keep abreast, however it implies it will greatly improve our product offering.”

The company also sees these benefits with Azure:

• Kloud-Soft customers profit from a lower cost to acquire their product yet also gain the assurance of data security.
• As a partner, the overhead in terms of infra costs and the resources required is lower. In fact by using PaaS, resources required to maintain the infra layer is already taken care of by Azure.

Kloud-Soft uses the following workloads: Azure App Services, SQL Azure, Azure App on Linux, Docker Container, Ubuntu VM, Azure Active Directory, Azure B2C Active Directory, Application Insights, Azure Storage, Azure Queue, Azure Bot Framework, Cognitive Services, Azure Virtual Network, and Azure Backup Services.
To learn more about Kloud-Soft, their solutions, and how they can support you, visit their website.

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On Day 1 of Container Camp Sydney, Microsoft brought in two partners, Vibrato and Industrie & Co., to each give 1.5-hour technical workshops on containers in Azure. And, in the afternoon, Brendan Burns (Microsoft Partner Engineering Leader for Azure Container Service and Azure Resource Manager, and co-founder of Kubernetes) executed an old-fashioned, 3-hour communal engineering whiteboard marathon session.
On Day 2, Brendan gave a 45-minute keynote talking about the past, present, and future of containers. He also engaged with Microsoft customers, partners, and the open source community in Australia throughout Container Camp Sydney.

Microsoft also had two 15-minute lightning talks during the lunch hour, where Mike Hepburn from Red Hat demoed OpenShift on Azure at the Microsoft booth, and Simon Waight (our MVP from Kloud) demoed Docker/Kubernetes/.NET Core on Azure. These sessions were a big hit.
To top things off, after the official Container Camp Sydney event, Microsoft Australia coordinated across the Docker, Kubernetes, and Container Enthusiast community organizers to create the biggest community meetup in Australian history. It all happened at the NSW Teachers Federation Auditorium. 525 attendees filled the auditorium the evening of Thursday 25 May, where Brendan Burns gave an incredible second keynote address about Platform as a Service. We also had the opportunity to announce //Build was coming to Sydney on the 29-30 June.

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The last #MSFTOpenDay was held in Seoul, South Korea on the 24th of May, which attracted over 500 attendees!

The third #MSFTOpenDay event was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 5th of May.

The fourth and final #MSFTOpenDay was held in Seoul, South Korea on the 24th of May. There were over 500 attendees!

The events were very well received across the four countries, with positive feedback on the presenters and speakers, the hands-on demonstrations, and content. Here's what some of the participants had to say about Microsoft Open Days:

“I liked the in-depth presentation with highly relevant demos.”
“Janakiram is a very knowledgeable presenter and gave well prepared demonstrations that imparted useful information at the right level.”
“I liked the breadth of topics covered and the information presented.”

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From the 22nd to the 24th of May 2017, you can join various container experts for three days of technical talks, workshops, and demos covering all major platforms at the SMC Centre in Sydney, Australia.
Whether you are a newcomer or an expert container user, a startup founder or an enterprise, you can learn something new about container technology at Container Camp AU 2017.
The event will include 25+ sessions on the latest technology solutions, direct access to leading container experts, and training sessions for all ability levels. You will hear local and international technology leaders share their container stories, as well as gain insights into best practices and the latest container adoption frameworks.
Microsoft is delighted to participate as the Platinum sponsor at this year’s Container Camp AU. As container orchestration adoption in the enterprise accelerates, offering increases in agility and flexible deployment, we are looking forward to engaging with the engineering community and sharing Microsoft Azure's unique capabilities.
We are excited to announce that the opening keynote will be delivered by Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes, and Director of Engineering at Microsoft, where he is responsible for leading the Azure Container Services and Azure Resource Manager teams. In addition, we encourage the community to join us for two free workshops on Monday the 22nd of May. The first is run by three local Microsoft partners (Industrie & Co, Vibrato, Levvel) covering container adoption in the enterprise, and the second is an active communal engineering session with Brendan Burns.
Some of the other distinguished speakers include Michelle Noorali (Software Engineer at Deis and core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project at Microsoft). Visit the Container Camp event website to see the complete list of speakers and workshops.
You can also visit the Container Expo to interact with partner demos and network with your peers at our evening social events on the 23rd of May.
Learn more and register at the Container Camp website. We hope to see you at the event!

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