Where is the Microsoft Cloud? In reality, it exists in globally distributed data center infrastructure, connected through a worldwide fiber optic network. This infrastructure supports over 200 online services, including Bing®, Hotmail®, MSN®...

Global Foundation Services (GFS) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services. They focus on smart growth, high reliability, operational excellence, cost-effectiveness, environmental sustainability, and a trustworthy online experience for customers...

Written by Bryan McMillan, Architect, Microsoft Services Businesses today are challenged to become more agile to facilitate their ability to innovate. To be competitive, IT departments must operate in an increasingly challenging economic environment...

Pella has long been a trusted name in home and commercial construction, making beautifully crafted, energy-efficient windows and doors. But the construction business has been tough lately. Pella is a just in time manufacturer committed to continuous improvement...

On September 4, 2012 in a global online launch event Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, announced the general availability of Windows Server 2012. In his keynote speech, Nadella described how Windows Server 2012 is a cornerstone...

Written by Mike Walker, IT Director | Enterprise Information Architecture , Dell Corporation Previously, we talked about the ways to achieve a balance between value and risk in order to get the most out of your cloud investments. In that post I identified...

Written by Ayrianne Davis, Microsoft Public Sector Dynamics Lead Enterprise adoption of cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) continues to grow as organizations realize the inherent benefits of easy online access to solve their needs in...

Written by Microsoft IT Showcase Microsoft IT (MSIT) currently uses mostly conventional on-premises products, but is moving rapidly to a mixed-use environment in which it utilizes some combination of on-premises software, software as a service ...

Written by Susan Hauser, Microsoft Corporate Vice President One of the most rewarding parts of my role is getting time to spend with the field and engaging with customers. I come away energized and with deep insights from every meeting. Every customer...

The late 90’s saw the advent of online presence. Enterprises started realizing greater opportunities beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar business model. The millennium saw the momentum shift to “as-a-service” models. Organizations...

Written By Microsoft Research ChronoZoom is an open-source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of cosmos, Earth, life, and...

Many large banks in China were looking to add new services for their commercial customers. Strong Union Technology developed a mobile banking solution that uses Windows Embedded Standard to create kiosks that introduce customers to mobile banking in a...

Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, talks with Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell about new tools for data. While Microsoft creates its own tools for data, it also works within the larger data community and ecosystem. Thinking of data...

Vijay Govindarajan, the bestselling author of Reverse Innovation and professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, and keynote speaker at Microsoft’s Global High Tech Summit shares a strategy framework, based on innovation, that...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect In my previous post, Understanding Which Investments Should Go to the Cloud , I opened the door to a discussion around qualifying opportunities for the cloud, and looked...

Authored by Mike Walker , Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect At the Troux Worldwide Enterprise Architecture Conference I had the pleasure of being invited to an EA industry panel to answer and discuss questions from the conference...

Emerging technologies in the areas of the cloud, big data, mobility, social computing, and natural user interfaces (NUI) present new opportunities for companies to rethink processes, deliver new customer experiences, and gain competitive advantage. The...

This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team . See what IT executives are saying about opportunities and challenges on leveraging social media in the enterprise at the Microsoft's recent US CIO Summit in Redmond, WA. Are you building plans around...

This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team . Enabling collaboration and communication using social tools can help businesses be more competitive by allowing people to work in a familiar way, accelerating innovation. At Microsoft, we can help...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect In my last post, I was examining The Evolution of Today’s CIO and What kind of CIO’s will transform businesses? , and how it has morphed into a more strategic...

This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team . In the information workplace of today, a convergence of trends is changing the way we work together. Younger people familiar with a whole new generation of social computing software are entering...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect In my last post in this series , “ CIO Priorities for the Next 3 Years ”, we examined the future of Corporate IT, and made some predictions on what CIO priorities...

Guest Blog post by Marie Huwe, General Manager, Microsoft Dynamics Originally published on Forbes.com on March 5, 2012 Open the information floodgates by letting customers and employees communicate the way they want. A few years ago...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino Employees’ ability to share knowledge with their co-workers about market trends, customer demands, best practices and other information is critical to success in today’s highly competitive business environment...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino The Internet and social media are making collaboration easier than ever, and many companies are finding that they have an ever-increasing need to allow their employees to be more connected — using tools to share...