Orkide Oils increased productivity, efficiency and security by using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune), Microsoft 365 Defender and Endpoint Defender services.
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Announcing Public Preview of Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop
If you’ve been hoping to try out the new Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop – now’s your chance!
Read this article to find out how to access and use this new capability.
Azure Virtual Desktop Watermarking Support
Watermarking printed documents and PDFs is a common practice to keep them from being copied. Now you can also watermark digital screen views and screen shots with the new Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Watermarking feature.
Watermarking is an optional protection feature to Screen Capture in Virtual Desktop. Read how to access support for the Watermarking feature in this article.
Howard University doubles security score and saves $1 million annually
Howard University, a leading historically Black college in Washington, DC, doubled its security score in less than a year after expanding its use of Microsoft Azure.
After suffering a ransomware attack in 2021, the university sought to strengthen its security with Microsoft solutions. In just three weeks, Howard restored all core IT services, increased efficiency, boosted security and saved money,
Read the full story to learn what they accomplished and how.
Microsoft a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service
The desktop as a service (DaaS) market continues to grow, as does the need by organizations for flexible and secure remote access.
In this free copy of Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for DaaS, you’ll read about the key DaaS solutions and providers – and learn why Gartner rated Microsoft a “Leader.”
Eurowings enhances security, will reduce operating costs by 50+ percent with Azure Virtual Desktop
Eurowings, Lufthansa Group’s low-cost airline, serves more than 40 million customers at 100 destinations around the world.
When the company’s on-premises server farms, which provide application access and security to thousands of external and contract employees, needed upgrading, Eurowings decided to ditch its on-prem servers and embrace the cloud with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop.
Tim Thomer, Enterprise Architect at Eurowings explains:. “We wanted a cloud VDI solution capable of running modern authentication, and which could match our existing infrastructure in terms of security and reliability. That’s how we found Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop.”
Read the Eurowings story of cloud adoption in this Microsoft article.
Georgia Banking Company turbocharges growth
Georgia Banking Company in Atlanta, GA has grown from a $600 million bank to a $1.5 billion phenomenon in only two years. That kind of rapid growth is good news for the company but challenging for its IT security staff. Fortunately, the bank’s plans called for enhanced security. Georgia Banking Co. adopted Microsoft Azure with VPN Gateway, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Purview Data Loss Prevention and other Microsoft security solutions.
The highly bankable result? Substantial savings, best-in-class user experience for employees and customers, and heightened security draw rave reviews from IT and other employees.
Read this interesting story.
Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023
Organizations need to protect sensitive data including intellectual property, trade secrets, customer data and personally identifiable information from both insiders and external cyber attackers. A complex regulatory environment makes the protection of sensitive data and prevention of data exfiltration all the more urgent. To help customers navigate complex data landscapes, Microsoft focuses on delivering secure and intelligent, user-centric solutions to improve visibility and mitigate risk. We are excited to share that Forrester listed Microsoft as a Leader in its 2023 WaveTM for Data Security Platforms. Read this blog for a summary of the report which provides a detailed overview of vendor offerings, strategies and market presence.
Announcing Public Preview of Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop
Good news! You can now preview Microsoft’s Personal Desktop Autoscale, which is Azure Virtual Desktop’s native scaling solution that automatically starts session host virtual machines according to schedule.
With Personal Desktop Autoscale, you can save costs by shutting down idle session hosts while ensuring session hosts can be started by users when needed.
Find out more in this article.
2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service – Free Offer
You need to know the pros and cons of the leading desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solutions before you buy. Read the full inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for DaaS vendors, including digital workplace leaders like Microsoft Virtual Desktop.
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