In the ever-changing IT landscape, Citrix is pushing the limits of what’s possible for our customers and partners. It’s exciting how we’re helping them use our technologies, from moving workloads to the cloud, thinning down endpoints, and tweaking our ICA protocol to maximize graphics performance.

In a recent press release, Microsoft announced that it is expanding its partnership with artificial intelligence research company OpenAIto bolster its supercomputing cloud AI technology. In addition to working together to develop new cloud technologies, Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI.

Do these thoughts describe your company's Azure cloud adoption?

• "Cloud knowledge is essential for IT and Development on-boarding"
• "Our teams need to get up to speed quickly"
• "We don't know where to start"

If so, you probably need a facilitated training on Azure cloud technologies, and the means to this end is a Azure Customer Immersion Experience, or CIE for short.

"How can we use Azure Cloud to modernize our applications" is among top asks we hear at SNP from our customers. There are various motivations for the question, from an interest in re-hosting legacy applications running on on-premise servers to greenfield application development initiatives. The person posing the question knows that cloud technology has something to offer, but the territory is unexplored and mysterious.

Today, businesses are becoming a combination of on-premises and cloud applications. Users require access to those applications which are hosted both on-premises and in the cloud. Managing users both on-premises and in the cloud poses challenging scenarios.

Cloud developers and IT teams struggle to stay ahead of challenges protecting users, data, and applications from today’s cybersecurity attacks. With Azure Firewall, network security policies can be enforced while allowing companies to take advantage of the scale and simplicity of Azure.

On July 9, 2019, Microsoft will end support and security updates for SQL Server 2008 + 2008 R2. By that date, businesses using those systems will need to have migrated their operations to new software. That presents issues not only of cost and security but availability. It’s not like you can migrate during downtime anymore.

If you've been following developments at Microsoft during the tenure of CEO Satya Nadella, it is likely you have heard him say "Microsoft Loves Open Source!"

The end of support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is coming up fast. If you don’t have time to upgrade before July 9, 2019, don’t worry. You can keep your systems secure by migrating your workloads to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s cloud-based platform Azure has helped many businesses expand while reducing costs associated with hosting and storing data and applications in the cloud. SNP Technologies leverages AI-based cognitive services to add intelligence, automation and search capabilities to your applications.