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In this final episode of a 2-part series on Azure Storage and DataLake, Vamshi Kommineni shares some things with us of interest to any technology decision maker. We discuss what backup, recovery, disaster planning, failover, governance, and other factors look like regarding storage solutions. Further we dive deep into customer use cases and stories that illustrate the value and flexibility of the storage solutions, and even touch upon the role of storage in high-performance computing scenarios.Show LinksAzure Storage SolutionsAzure FilesAzure Blob StorageAzure Data LakeAzure Disk StorageAzure Archive StorageContact the product team at azurestoragefeedback@microsoft.comGuestVamshidhar KommineniPrincipal PM Manager for Azure Storage at MicrosoftVamshi and his team is focus on Azure Storage, Data Lake, as well as some other technologies. He is responsible for business strategy and growth along with industry relationships like Media and Entertainment, Automotive, Healthcare, and more.Find Vamshi on LinkedIn

In this first of a 2-part series, Vamshi Kommineni takes us through Azure Storage and Data Lake from the perspective of industry use cases and relevant capabilities. Not only do we learn about the different capabilities of these services, but we also cover discuss their use at hyper-scale and what that can mean for customers. Vamshi shares several customer stories that highlight the technology’s evolution and usage as well as highlighting some common usage patterns.TranscriptShow LinksAzure Storage SolutionsAzure FilesAzure Blob StorageAzure Data LakeAzure Disk StorageAzure Archive StorageGuestVamshidhar KommineniPrincipal PM Manager for Azure Storage at MicrosoftVamshi and his team is focus on Azure Storage, Data Lake, as well as some other technologies. He is responsible for business strategy and growth along with industry relationships like Media and Entertainment, Automotive, Healthcare, and more.Find Vamshi on LinkedIn

In this episode we hear how Microsoft and its partners are focused on helping financial services organizations meet the demands of today. Specifically, the guests discuss how Microsoft is helping with the COVID-19 situation, including things like fraud detection and enabling employees.Additional topics include how Microsoft is empowering customers with high performance computing and large data volumes to help update legacy risk models to factor in today’s new risks. Further, we hear about the power of Microsoft’s three clouds that underlies the ecosystem of Microsoft and partner solutions.Show Links[Transcript]Blog Post: Agility, continuity, and risk management for financial services Blog Post: Business continuity in financial servicesMicrosoft Financial Services Industry BlogMicrosoft in Banking and Capital MarketsMicrosoft in InsuranceAzure for Financial ServicesM365 for Financial ServicesGuestsBill BordenCorporate Vice President for Worldwide Financial Services at MicrosoftBill leads development and execution of Microsoft’s global financial services strategy, including the prioritization of banking, capital markets and insurance industry solutions and their alignment to Microsoft’s worldwide digital platform and partner ecosystem.Bill on LinkedInBill Borden's BlogNick LeimerPrincipal Industry Lead for Azure for Insurance in the Microsoft Industry Experiences TeamNick recruits partners, ISVs, start-ups, and other influential organizations in the insurance industry to accelerate adoption of the Microsoft Cloud+ AI platforms. One of his core missions is to amplify how our Microsoft cloud solutions meet the business enabling needs across the globe through speaking at conferences, authoring blogs, use cases, whitepapers, and social media posts.Nick on LinkedIn and Twitter.Karen BaileyFinancial Services Lead for Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance on the Microsoft Industry Experiences team.Karen is a passionate Business Technology leader with over 25 years of diverse experiences working to develop strategies for Digital Transformation focused on opti-channel, customer-centric and hyper-personalized experiences aligning Technology Solutions to Go-to Market Strategies, Operational Needs, Growth and Profitably strategies and sector imperatives.Karen on LinkedIn

Çağlayan Arkan, Microsoft’s Vice President and Global Sales Lead for the Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft, joins in this episode to talk about how Microsoft is engaging manufacturing and the supply chain. The discussion covers the current situation for manufacturers during in the current COVID-19 pandemic and how Microsoft is reaching out to customers and partners. Further, Diego Tamburini, Principal Industry Lead in Azure for Manufacturing joins in to dive deeper on Microsoft’s partner ecosystem and how companies can join in that conversation.Other topics covered include current and emerging trends and technology for the following pillars:Workforce transformationEngaging customers in new waysBuilding more agile factoriesCreating more resilient Supply chainsUnlocking innovation and delivering new servicesShow Links[Transcript]The Future Computed: AI in manufacturingManufacturing Industry site: COVID Webinar series linksMicrosoft Industry Digital Forum: Exploring the current manufacturing environment in light of COVID-19Microsoft Industry Digital Forum: Stories and Solutions Creating Manufacturing and Supply Chain ResiliencyMicrosoft Industry Digital Forum: Re-FACTORY-ing Stories and Solutions Enabling Agile ProductionGuestsÇağlayan ArkanVice President, Global Sales Lead, Manufacturing Industry at MicrosoftAs Vice President, Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft, Çağlayan Arkan is responsible for managing the digital transformation for manufacturing companies across high-tech and electronics, industrial equipment, aerospace, and chemicals/agrochemicals globally, as well as guiding growth and compete strategies for Microsoft in these verticals worldwide.Çağlayan is passionate about empowering customers to position themselves as first movers or fast followers in today’s disruptive era. By supporting organizations with new technology-led capabilities, strategies and insights that will fundamentally reinvent their products, services and business models, Çağlayan and his team are helping businesses drive sustained growth, agile innovation and operational excellence.Prior to his current role, Çağlayan held several leadership roles at Microsoft and Siemens, successfully spearheading new strategic growth, market penetration and business development initiativesLinkedInBlogTwitter: @Caglayan_ArkanDiego TamburiniPrincipal Industry Lead - Azure for ManufacturingDiego builds the best ecosystem of software partners developing manufacturing solutions on Azure and helping them be successful.LinkedInTwitter: @DiegoTamburini

Retail has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shelley Bransten, Karen Garrette, and Sahir Anand join David and Paul to discuss how retailers are responding to the current crisis along with what to expect during and after recovery.We introduce the Microsoft for Retail team and how it works with partners and customers to solve the biggest retail problems and move the state of the industry forward with digital technologies. In addition we hear how Microsoft is helping the largest employment segment in the world navigate the COVID-19 crisis.Finally, we hear where Microsoft is investing in the technologies serving the future of the industry.Show Links[Transcript]Microsoft for RetailProject Zap, Retail Matchmaking ToolMcKinsey Covid Resource CenterThe Kroger BlueprintWalgreens’s Boot AllianceGuestsShelley BranstenCorporate Vice President, WW Retail & Consumer Goods Industries, MicrosoftShelley grew up in retail. She is a passionate advocate for customers and works tirelessly to ensure retailers are set up for success across their digital transformation efforts. At Microsoft, Shelley leads the thought leadership, go-to-market and solution approach to address retailers’ most important growth opportunities.Shelley on LinkedInKaren GarretteWorld Wide Retail Strategy Lead at MicrosoftHaving worked in a variety of roles from presales to consultancy, Karen has the depth and breadth of experience and deep technical understanding that allows her to translate the feature and function set into customer solutions to win against the competition.Karen on LinkedInSahir AnandPrincipal, Industry Lead – Microsoft Azure Cloud+AI for Retail & CPG at MicrosoftOver the years, Sahir has published several industry reports, blogs, whitepapers, and videos focused on retail and CPG industry business and technology areas. He is an avid speaker at industry events.Sahir on LinkedIn

Our Microsoft for Health panel looks forward to the future of healthcare. As healthcare responds to the current COVID-19 crisis, it is accelerating its adoption of technologies that would have taken years to implement before the current need for change.The panel discusses how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is impacting healthcare today and in the future. Hear how Microsoft's AI/ML technologies and the Azure cloud are being brought to bear to empower people to work differently.Not only are these technologies helping the current situation, but partners are providing the next generation of medicine today. Learn how Healthcare will be forever changed by the technology solutions currently being introduced today.TranscriptShow NotesMicrosoft for HealthcareMicrosoft Industry Health BlogMicrosoft 365 and healthcareMicrosoft for Healthcare on LinkedInMicrosoft’s Covid-19 ResponsePatient outreach & triage (Healthcare bot, PlasmaBot)Track allocation of resources & supplies - Protecting People EverywhereCommunication for crisis managementDeliver & manage continuous care (Virtual Visits)Dissemination of accurate information (COVID Open Research Dataset (CORD19), Contact Tracing)Supporting your healthcare organization and community during crisesComplimentary 6-month Office 365 E1 to help connect employees during COVID-19 responseEnabling the NHS to continue delivering frontline healthcareGE Healthcare is extending its longtime collaboration with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systemsLearn about Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help respond to patient inquiriesBuild a crisis management site to connect people and informationUse this preconfigured template to rapidly share information across facilities and collect employee updates with Power Apps Crisis Management templateQuickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff and reduce the load on your infrastructure Balancing cloud services continuity for crucial health and safety organizationsWork remotely, stay secure—tips for CISOsArtificial Intelligence in HealthcareUses of AI for health include the work to fight COVID-19 is already underway. A handful of key partnerships include the following.The  COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a private-public effort spearheaded by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, for which Microsoft is providing researchers access to the world’s most powerful computing resources, which can significantly speed the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus. Around the world, Microsoft’s research scientists, spanning computer science, biology, medicine and public health, are collaborating on projects in the consortiumThe Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a global health research organization at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is releasing a set of COVID-19 data visualizations and forecasts that the White House, FEMA, governors and hospital administrators have started using to mobilize resourcesThe Washington State Department of Health is working on a new dashboard that aims to increase timeliness, accuracy and speed of data reporting to the public. The dashboard relies on data reported by local health jurisdictions, healthcare facilities and labsFolding@home, a global organization that uses distributed computing is researching COVID-19 proteins that could help with designing therapeuticsThe Sepsis Center of Research Excellence (SCORE-UW), part of the University of Washington’s Department of Medicine, is a global collaboration between a network of hospitals, industry, blood banks, universities and funding partners. Using clinical data, radiologic imaging and other patient biomarker responses, SCORE-UW is developing novel algorithms to predict, and improve, healthcare and socioeconomic outcomes of COVID-19 positive patientsTake, the Brazilian leader in chatbots and the smart contacts market, developed a bot to bring official and credible information to the public and connect potential patients to medical teams to avoid overloading Brazilian hospitalsGuestsGareth HallSenior Director - Microsoft WorldWide Health SolutionsGareth leads the team driving the worldwide solutions strategy for the Microsoft Health business, focused on working with Microsoft product teams and partners to build solutions on the Microsoft cloud platforms (Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office 365).LinkedInJohn DoyleDirector, Cloud & AI, Microsoft HealthcareAs a Director within the worldwide commercial business industry team at Microsoft, John Doyle is responsible for the development of business strategy and partnerships across the healthcare industry, globally. John, engages with industry customers and partners, developing strategies and repeatable technology solutions that harness the power of cloud and AI to drive innovation and industry transformation.LinkedInDavid HouldingDavid is the Director of Healthcare experiences on Microsoft Industry Experiences team. He has extensive experience in working with partners for healthcare in applicable technologies, most lately the cloud, blockchain, and AI.LinkedInTwitter

Microsoft for Healthcare is working hard to help healthcare throughout the COVID-19 crisis and to plan for what comes after the pandemic. Our guests discuss how Microsoft is responding to the current COVID-19 crisis as well as their mission in healthcare and the future of the industry.Our guests describe how they work with partners to find the right capabilities enabled by Microsoft solutions. Additionally, we discuss several Microsoft healthcare-focused products in use today. Learn how Microsoft technologies are being used to solve real world problems related not only to the current pandemic, but other important healthcare problems.The panel discusses the partnerships occurring between competitors to combat COVID-19. Learn about Microsoft partner solutions available to help "flatten the curve" during this crisis.TranscriptShow NotesMicrosoft for HealthcareMicrosoft Industry Health BlogMicrosoft 365 and healthcareMicrosoft for Healthcare on LinkedIn Microsoft’s Covid-19 ResponsePatient outreach & triage (Healthcare bot, PlasmaBot)Track allocation of resources & supplies - Protecting People EverywhereCommunication for crisis managementDeliver & manage continuous care (Virtual Visits)Dissemination of accurate information (COVID Open Research Dataset (CORD19), Contact Tracing)Supporting your healthcare organization and community during crisesComplimentary 6-month Office 365 E1 to help connect employees during COVID-19 responseEnabling the NHS to continue delivering frontline healthcareGE Healthcare is extending its longtime collaboration with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systemsLearn about Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help respond to patient inquiriesBuild a crisis management site to connect people and informationUse this preconfigured template to rapidly share information across facilities and collect employee updates with Power Apps Crisis Management templateQuickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff and reduce the load on your infrastructure Balancing cloud services continuity for crucial health and safety organizationsWork remotely, stay secure—tips for CISOs Artificial Intelligence in HealthcareUses of AI for health include the work to fight COVID-19 is already underway. A handful of key partnerships include the following.The  COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a private-public effort spearheaded by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, for which Microsoft is providing researchers access to the world’s most powerful computing resources, which can significantly speed the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus. Around the world, Microsoft’s research scientists, spanning computer science, biology, medicine and public health, are collaborating on projects in the consortiumThe Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a global health research organization at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is releasing a set of COVID-19 data visualizations and forecasts that the White House, FEMA, governors and hospital administrators have started using to mobilize resourcesThe Washington State Department of Health is working on a new dashboard that aims to increase timeliness, accuracy and speed of data reporting to the public. The dashboard relies on data reported by local health jurisdictions, healthcare facilities and labsFolding@home, a global organization that uses distributed computing is researching COVID-19 proteins that could help with designing therapeuticsThe Sepsis Center of Research Excellence (SCORE-UW), part of the University of Washington’s Department of Medicine, is a global collaboration between a network of hospitals, industry, blood banks, universities and funding partners. Using clinical data, radiologic imaging and other patient biomarker responses, SCORE-UW is developing novel algorithms to predict, and improve, healthcare and socioeconomic outcomes of COVID-19 positive patientsTake, the Brazilian leader in chatbots and the smart contacts market, developed a bot to bring official and credible information to the public and connect potential patients to medical teams to avoid overloading Brazilian hospitalsGuestsGareth HallSenior Director - Microsoft WorldWide Health SolutionsGareth leads the team driving the worldwide solutions strategy for the Microsoft Health business, focused on working with Microsoft product teams and partners to build solutions on the Microsoft cloud platforms (Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office 365).LinkedInJohn DoyleDirector, Cloud & AI, Microsoft HealthcareAs a Director within the worldwide commercial business industry team at Microsoft, John Doyle is responsible for the development of business strategy and partnerships across the healthcare industry, globally. John, engages with industry customers and partners, developing strategies and repeatable technology solutions that harness the power of cloud and AI to drive innovation and industry transformation.LinkedInDavid HouldingDavid is the Director of Healthcare experiences on Microsoft Industry Experiences team. He has extensive experience in working with partners for healthcare in applicable technologies, most lately the cloud, blockchain, and AI.LinkedInTwitter

Join us in this episode about the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, the way to buy and sell software from Microsoft partners. Publishers and buyers of Azure-based cloud software will be interested in this show, whether learning how to sell your solution or how to buy an offered solution.The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace consists of two storefronts, the Azure Marketplace and AppSource. Join us on this episode to learn the differences and who will be interested in each.Microsoft AppSourceMicrosoft Azure MarketplaceTranscriptJeana JorgensenAs a leader in the Cloud Commercial Community organization at Microsoft, Jeana Jorgensen is an expert in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace and the value Microsoft Azure customers and partners derive from it. She joins us on the podcast to discuss the use of the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, who should be interested, and how to get the greatest value from it as sellers or buyers of commercial software running on Microsoft Azure.LinkedIn

TranscriptUncrowd’s Friction/Reward Index, or FRi, platform answers retail's most fundamental question, “Why do customers choose retailer x over retailer y?” It then shows exactly how to win in more shopper missions, identify safe cost reductions, and optimize operations.The Friction/Reward index is fundamentally about showing when and why a customer will prefer you to a rival. In the era of total and easy access to competing choices, knowing where you stand among those choices is your number one priority.Uncrowd onlineUncrowd's offer on the Azure MarketplaceGuestsRichard HammondRichard is the Uncrowd’s CEO and the leading global expert on friction versus reward. He is the author of both Friction/Reward and Smart Retail.Richard on LinkedInUncrowd on LinkedIn

TranscriptSolix Technologies, Inc., is a leading big data application provider that empowers data-driven enterprises with optimized infrastructure, data security, and advanced analytics.We discuss sources of our data explosion and how companies can benefit from this data by connecting silos of data together. And, the cultural change that comes with data-informed decisions.SHOW LINKSSOLIXCloud.comFollow us on TwitterJoin us on FacebookFollow us on LinkedInGUESTSSai Gundavelli : Chief Executive Officer at Solix Technologies, Inc.John Ottman: Executive Chairman at Solix Technologies, Inc.Jim Lee: VP of Data ServicesKalyan Manyam: Director of Cloud ProductsPaul Maher: General Manager of Microsoft's Industry Experiences Team