Gartner defines strategic cloud platform services (SCPS) as standardized, automated, public cloud offerings integrating infrastructure services (for example, computing, network and storage), platform services (for example, application, data and value-added services such as AI/ML) and transformation services (resources to help customers adopt cloud-oriented IT delivery models). Although owned by the service provider, infrastructure and platform services may be hosted in providers’ infrastructures or customers’ data centers. Services should be elastically scalable, metered by use and consumable via web-based interfaces and programmable APIs. Transformation programs may be delivered by automated, self-service interfaces, and managed interactions facilitated by account teams/partners.

Strategic Cloud Platform Services

Generative AI (GenAI) Infrastructure providers are infrastructure vendors (such as cloud platforms and hardware manufacturers) that offer underlying technology, tools and hardware that other companies and developers use to build and deploy specific generative AI applications in production. Generative AI refers to technologies that can generate new derived versions of content, strategies, designs and methods by learning from large repositories of original source content. These providers offer scalable, reliable and cost-effective solutions for generative AI projects, which can be complex and expensive to train and deploy. Generative AI infrastructure providers focus on research and developing the foundational AI techniques, while application developers focus on building products using those foundational technologies. Please note that this market is based on Beta research and is continuously evolving. We will be making changes as and when there are new updates.

Generative AI Infrastructure Providers (Transitioning to Generative AI Specialized Infrastructure)

Generative AI Infrastructure Providers

Gartner defines zero trust network access (ZTNA) as products and services that create an identity and context-based, logical-access boundary that encompasses an enterprise user and an internally hosted application or set of applications. The applications are hidden from discovery, and access is restricted via a trust broker to a collection of named entities, which limits lateral movement within a network.

Zero Trust Network Access (Transitioning to Security Service Edge)

Zero Trust Network Access

Gartner defines network security microsegmentation — also referred to as zero-trust network segmentation — as an effort that can create more granular and dynamic access policies than traditional network segmentation (often north-south traffic segmentation). It allows the insertion of a security policy between any two workloads in the same broadcast domain — with microsegmentation technologies narrowing fine-grained network zones down to individual assets and applications. Microsegmentation tools support the implementation of finer-grained zoning across public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures. Security and risk management (SRM) leaders must understand the key features, use cases, and role of microsegmentation in their environment, as well as determine which model is the best fit for their needs.

Network Security Microsegmentation

Threat modeling automation tools automate the creation of security requirements and threat models. They can integrate with software development life cycle (SDLC) tools to manage requirements and perform validation. Threat modeling automation tools dynamically highlight potential security ramifications of application architecture and recommend secure coding practices or architectural countermeasures. These tools significantly decrease the effort required to create and maintain threat models, security requirements and risk assessments. This tool automatically identifies potential threats based on predefined criteria, seamlessly integrates with development tools like JIRA, Jenkins etc., and checks for coding standards, potential bugs, and security vulnerabilities. Typical users include security teams, developers, DevOps teams, product owners, and risk management professionals, who use it to efficiently identify and mitigate security risks.

Threat Modeling Automation

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Partnerships Manager.

Microsoft Azure is an excellent cloud platform, it is a highly reliable platform with high availability.
I use Microsoft Azure to manage my virtual machine remotely from any location and for data storage management.
Moreover, I can deploy applications easily and quickly and modify the resources according to my needs.


ANALISTA SOC

Tem um bom suporte para o cliente, a integração com outras ferramentas é muito ágil e tem uma boa documentação.

It has good customer support, integration with other tools is very fast, and it has good documentation.

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Head of Information Technology

It is difficult to determine the inter-dependencies of the MS O365 products in the O365 suite as well as the products ' specific functions/features. And then to plan a road map for the appropriate implementation of the products in an organization is very difficult. 

Project manager

MSFT Azure doesnt offer an important service that was super important for our operation. Basically, MSFT Azure doesnt provide a private network and exposes the database access to the cloud (with certain security). But the security team had concerns and we need to file exceptions to get the project approved. 

Infrastructure Architect

Portal can be confusing. Networking and integration is a challenge.

Billing and visibility to billing needs improvement. 

Team Lead Infrastructure

We struggled with rapid and frequent changes win the Azure stack as we moved forward with our project.

Application Programmer

Microsoft Azure has provided my organization with a cost-effective way of hosting our data and services while allowing my team to easily collaborate on projects. Additionally, the monitoring tools have helped us analyze how our applications are used and allowed us to quickly diagnose issues as they arise.

Enterprise Architect

Complete suit for Enterprise Cloud Offering at all stages of IaaS, PaaS, FaaS. It would be nice to expand the space in Open Source Languages like Java rather than focusing on MS .NET.

Enterprise Reporting Manager

It has been fairly easy to get started with Microsoft Azure.  There is a lot of material available online to guide you, and we have found a lot of help is available when you reach out to Microsoft.  They certainly make it a lot easier and are continually evolving.

Director Infrastructure & Operations

We used Azure Site Recovery services and moving forward to Office365. Great experience. We got some issues replicating due to internal network issues but all the Cloud experience was seamless and the support from Microsoft when opening support tickets was great. 

Director of IT

The service has worked very well to augment our services.  We are able to back up to the cloud, create apps in the cloud, and move some of our domain services to the cloud.

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IT MANAGER

It provides great support for hybrid cloud solution for our organization.It integrates well with all our Microsoft products

Data Engineer

It is very easy to use with a great community support, as well as customer support

IT SERVICES APPLICATION MANAGER MAIL

High cloud integration, flexibility, scalability, security and compliance.

IT ENGINEER APPLICATIONS

This is a great tool to use with the database in the cloud environment!

Manager Facility

Its hybrid cloud capabilities allow us to seamlessly integrate our on-premises infrastructure with the cloud and its flexibility and scalability has allowed us to quickly adapt to changing business needs. Overall, it has been a game changer for my organization, which provides a secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.

FOUNDER S OFFICE PRODUCT & GROWTH

We really had an overwhelming experiences with Microsoft Azure, as our development team prefer this robust cloud computing platform for host application and web services. This cloud computing
platform enable us to easily build, deploy and manage our application efficiently. 

Our internal development choses Microsoft Azure because of its extensive ranges of services such as storage, analytics, networking and many more such features. 

Data Scientist

Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud platform that offers a wide range of services for engineers, including virtual machines, databases, AI and machine learning tools. Azure Functions is one of the most secure ways to deploy serverless functions and is seamlessly integrated with other Azure native functions and third-party services. Azure Functions is an event-driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing other Azure application platforms with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in Azure or third-party services. as well as on-premises systems. Azure Functions makes it straightforward to create, deploy and manage serverless functions without having to worry about server infrastructure.

Business Development Associate

This has comprehensive cloud services leading with seamless integrations, gives full flexibility and security user friendly interface very versatile and attractive options 

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure is a cloud service provider from Microsoft itself. Its been two years since we are using Microsoft Azure cloud for our work. We are using it for multiple scenarios for example for hosting our internal projects, for storing confidential data and other critical jobs. The easy and user-friendly graphical interface helps new users to quickly adapt and start working on the cloud. It has some advaned security features such as multi-factor authentication and risk detection. The official documentation properly explains every detail and working of different services. 

BI / ETL DEVELOPER

Azure is a robust platform offering plenty of services both from Microsoft and from multiple partners through an extensive marketplace. Deployment of services like virtual networks, virtual machines or databases is quick and simple. Being another Cloud Infrastructure user for years, adapting to Azure was not as simple as I would have expected since the user interface is not as consistent as I would have liked, although the usage of API is similar.

This tool offers comprehensive suite of cloud services, making it idea for all sizes of organisations, this will boost my productivity and my teams workflow gives seamless integrations with Microsoft tools  

Manager

Azure is a streamlined hyperscaler and cloud provider with a variety of features, functionality and security components that assists a business to grow at scale, with the ability to scale up or down as required over a period of time to meet business requirements while maintaining cost and without investing in significant hardware or software.

AUDIT SENIOR MANAGER

Truly an exceptional cloud service and hosting platform that meets the needs of innovation, scalability, availability and cost efficiency.

My experience with Microsoft Azure has been positive due to its robust cloud services,easy integration with other microsoft tools and strong security measures. It supports diverse workloads efficiently but navigating its pricing structure can be challenging. 

Design Manager

Azure cloud platform is very useful in managing active directory and it also helps in threat detection as well.Azure has the feature for supporting multiple programming languages and it plays a bigger role during disaster recovery and during taking backups.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing software that offers a range of services including virtual machines, databases, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, and analytics. The software enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of data centers. It allows users to scale resources as required and supports multiple operating systems and development frameworks. Azure provides tools for security, compliance, and disaster recovery to help address business continuity challenges. It is designed to support workloads from simple web hosting to complex data analysis, allowing businesses to optimize infrastructure management and operational efficiency.

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