Three reasons to deploy Red Hat workloads to the Azure cloud 

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To compete in today’s business climate, IT departments are being asked to help their teams increase innovation while reducing costs, create environments to scale up and down flexibly, and give their organizations the tools necessary to meet increasingly global customer needs. To help accomplish these outcomes, many are moving their workloads to the cloud, while Read more

Learn about open source business opportunities at Microsoft Inspire 

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Microsoft Inspire kicks off today in Washington DC, where partners have an incredible opportunity to meet new partners and make connections that will support business growth for years to come. Open source solutions, particularly in the cloud, is a major growth opportunity for our partners. Microsoft’s investments in open source technologies and open standards enables Read more

Join us for Microsoft Azure OpenDev 

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Azure OpenDev is the first-ever virtual event from Microsoft that showcases open source technologies in the cloud. Hosted by John Gossman, Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure, the event features industry thought leaders, including Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical and speakers from Docker, Pivotal, Red Hat, and Chef, as well as Microsoft teams dedicated to open source. Join Read more

Cardinal Solutions is the 2017 Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year 

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We’re proud to name Cardinal Solutions Group the winner of the third annual Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year award. Cardinal Solutions was recognized for providing excellent open source-based solutions on Microsoft Azure, helping customers drive their digital transformations. This year Microsoft acknowledged partners in 34 categories, celebrating partners’ core competencies, including cloud technology, Read more

Open source took center stage at Microsoft Build 2017 

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Microsoft supports the diverse needs of every organization and developer – from core infrastructure services to platform services and tools to software-as-a-service – for any language, across any platform. Last week at Build, Microsoft focused on how to empower Windows, iOS, Android, Mac and Linux developers to reach billions of new customers. Here’s a round-up Read more

Connect with Microsoft at OSCON 2017 

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Some of the 3,000 open source contributors from across Microsoft are at OSCON this week, to focus on how the open source ecosystem is playing a major role in technology innovation, from artificial intelligence and IoT to microservices and containers. Support for open source solutions is crucial to enabling a thriving technology ecosystem and Microsoft Read more

More open source resources for Microsoft cloud partners 

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According to IDC forecasts, more than 60% of enterprises are embracing open source and open APIs as the underpinning for cloud integration strategies in 2017. Microsoft is empowering partners to capture this cloud opportunity and drive digital transformation with solutions that serve all customers and tackle both their business and technical challenges. Below is a Read more

Azure CLI 2.0 now generally available 

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This week Microsoft announced the general availability Azure CLI 2.0, including the vm, acs, storage and network commands. These commands provide a rich interface for a large array of use cases, from disk and extension management to container cluster creation. With this release, customers can now use these commands in production, with full support by Read more

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Open Source highlights from Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 

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Excitement filled the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre at Broadbeach, Queensland during the four-day Microsoft Ignite Australia event. Between 14 to 17 February 2017, #MSAUIgnite was jam-packed with hands-on learning, industry insights, and direct access to product experts. Journey to the cloud with 38 @Azure regions worldwide @scottgu #msauignite pic.twitter.com/uBOT3bZGXT — Dona Sarkar (@donasarkar) Read more

A behind-the-scenes look at launching SQL Server on Linux 

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Last November, Microsoft announced the next release of the public preview of SQL Server on Linux and Windows. With that release, users could develop applications with SQL Server on Linux, Windows, Docker, or macOS (via Docker) and then deploy to Linux, Windows, or Docker, on-premises or in the cloud. In the two weeks following the Read more

Clear Linux* OS now available in the Azure Marketplace 

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Microsoft recently announced the availability of Clear Linux* OS for Intel Architecture in the Azure Marketplace. Clear Linux OS is a free, open source Linux distribution built from the ground up for cloud and data center environments and tuned to maximize the performance and value of Intel architecture. Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud Read more

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