Advanced Technology Days – a well-known IT conference in Croatia, will be held this December in the Plaza Event Center, Zagreb.
The conference will focus on three fields: DevOps, Artificial Intelligence and Business IT.
Our COO, Hrvoje Kusulja, will talk about an Azure Active Directory novelty – Google login for external B2B users. He will also show a demo how to set up and activate this new AAD feature. This is a pretty nice feature if you are an Office 365 user and you want to share documents with external Google users.
You should definitely come if you work in the IT industry.
A hybrid cloud platform that lets you run Azure services on-premises – this is Azure Stack, an integrated and optimized system of software and matching hardware.
It combines IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) functionalities in a software stack that extends and enhances on-premises data center environments. You can now deliver Azure-based Cloud Services from your own data center, with fast application and service deployment using standard Azure tools and APIs.
Also, Azure Stack enables you to spread and integrate apps and services onto the public Azure cloud, for practically unlimited scalability.
How does Azure Stack work?
Here is the layout of the Azure Stack architecture:
List of some Azure capabilities available on Azure Stack
Iaas services
Virtual Machines
Storage
Networking
Key Vault
PaaS services
App Service: Web Apps, API Apps
Azure Functions
MySQL
SQL Server
Container Service
Azure Identity
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
Azure Marketplace Content
Microsoft SQL Server
Cloud Foundry template
Blockchain template
Bitnami
Kemp Technologies
Azure Marketplace Content – Images and extensions
LINUX: RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
Windows Server
Azure Docker Extension
DSX Extension
Chef Automate
DevOps Tooling integration
Visual Studio
Jenkins
PowerShell
Azure CLI 2.0
Protection and recovery
Azure Backup and System Center Data Protection Manager
Azure Site Recovery
Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Azure Stack
Lenovo ThinkAgile SX for Azure Stack is a scalable, integrated, ready to go hardware, software and networking solution that provides many Azure public cloud functionalities with the use of on-premises technologies. As a Lenovo Partner and a 1-Tier Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, we can provide Lenovo ThinkAgile SX sizing and hardware delivery, as well as Azure Stack consumption billing and general system support.
In order to stop losing time on actions we do manually every day, there are Flow automated workflows for available for many applications and services. Workflows are suitable for departments in organizations of all sizes: sales, HR, marketing, administration, etc.
Frequently used templates are readily available for use, but you can also create your own custom multi-step flows.
Save time with Flow automated workflows
Workflows can be used for various purposes: data collection, social networking, data and file synchronization, email and calendar actions, etc.
Some of the popular workflows can help you to:
Track your working hours
Create a task when an email is flagged
Save email attachments to your OneDrive for Business
Create a OneNote page for upcoming events
Get a push notification when you receive an email from your manager
Flow Connectors
Connectors are available for Outlook, Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power BI, Dynamics 365…
It is also possible to connect with third-party services such as newsletters, various cloud providers, social networks, CRMs, etc.
IBM has announced a new powerhouse storage solution – IBM FlashSystem 9100, which combines the performance of Flash and NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express).
FlashSystem 9100 can help you to accelerate business execution, increase ROI, reduce costs, keep data safe and secure, and optimize storage efficiency.
The new FlashSystem is one of the fastest storage arrays on the market!
It’s built on IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM FlashCore technologies, includes software-defined storage functionalities, and is multi-cloud enabled.
7 reasons why to get it
Performance and flexibility – multiple petabytes of effective data storage in two rack units
Intelligent support – available via included Storage Insights, which identifies potential issues and creates tickets when support is needed
Multicloud and container capabilities – IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Storage Insights, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Multi-Cloud starter for FlashSystem 9100, IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Multi-Cloud starter for FlashSystem 9100, IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud Multi-Cloud starter for FlashSystem 9100 and IBM Spectrum Connect
A single platform that includes NVMe-powered all-flash performance and FlashCore reliability, unlimited scalability, and data services that can transform and modernize existing systems
IBM Spectrum Virtualize – a wide range of data services: automated data movement, synchronous and asynchronous copy services, high availability configurations, storage tiering, compression, deduplication, etc.
Peace of Mind – a package of guarantees, upgrade programs, and extended support
Extended system capabilities – Data Reuse, Protection and Efficiency solution, Business Continuity and Data Reuse solution, Private Cloud Flexibility and Data Protection solution
Storage Insights
StorageInsights helps you to efficiently manage complex storageinfrastructures. Its task is to monitor the basic health, capacity and performance of storage resources, and to engage with IBM Support if needed.
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