TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2018--Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI, TOKYO:4307), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, today announced it starts providing mPLAT Suite, NRI’s multi-cloud management platform, on Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack Marketplace. The offering will be available online both in the US and Japan in May, 2018.NRI’s mPLAT Suite is a group of IT management products to optimize the integrated management of multi-cloud environments. Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack Marketplace provide a collection of services, applications, and resources customized for Microsoft Azure to optimize the deployment and execution. By making mPLAT Suite available on Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack Marketplace, users can deploy solutions globally in a more swift and flexible manner- a key to stay ahead in this time of rapid digital transformation.In addition, mPLAT Suite reinforced its management functions and achieved seamless deployment to Dell … [Read more...] about NRI to Provide mPLAT, on Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack Marketplace in Collaboration with Dell EMC
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Canberra gives Microsoft protected-level cloud classification
Microsoft is the latest vendor to receive accreditation from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), allowing it to store highly classified government information up to "protected" level on its Azure and Office 365 platforms.Protected-level certification for cloud services is currently the highest security level approved by the ASD on its Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL).Microsoft received accreditation from the ASD in June that saw Australia's intelligence agency formally certify 50 services on the ASD CCSL across Azure and Office 365.At the time, Microsoft Azure engineering lead for Australia James Kavanagh, as the company's Australian national technology officer, told ZDNet there were services "coming downstream" to allow government organisations to "go beyond" just the unclassified data route.Leading up to Tuesday's announcement, Microsoft then launched two new Australian datacentre regions at Canberra Data Centres (CDC) to offer Australian governments access to Microsoft … [Read more...] about Canberra gives Microsoft protected-level cloud classification
Microsoft looks to fix multi-cloud mess with Azure Australia Central
Microsoft has announced the go-live of two new regions in Australia targeted towards government, financial services, and critical national infrastructure clients in Australia and New Zealand that are making the move to multi-cloud.The new offering, Azure Australia Central, has been designed for mission-critical workloads, and comes after Microsoft achieved official accreditation from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) in June, allowing the company to offer 50 services on the ASD Certified Cloud Services List across Azure and Office 365.Offered out of Canberra Data Centres (CDC), the two new Azure cloud regions will allow for the storing of unclassified and protected-level data.CDC built its facilities in advance as top secret, which allows Microsoft to offer services from within CDC, inheriting the characteristics already in place and thus complying with Australian government requirements.Read more: Microsoft partners with Canberra Data Centres to cash in on government IT spend … [Read more...] about Microsoft looks to fix multi-cloud mess with Azure Australia Central
Microsoft boosts GDPR preparation tools for businesses
Microsoft has announced updates to its Office 365 suite to help businesses comply with the upcoming GDPR regulation with more ease. Announcing the updates on its blog , Microsoft said it is currently rolling the Compliance Manager for Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office 365 Business and Enterprise customers in public clouds.Besides this, Microsoft is launching the Compliance Score for Office 365, as well as Azure Information Protection Scanner.All these updates are fairly self-explanatory. Their goal is to help businesses that use either Azure or Office 365 (or both) to protect their data better, and with more ease. Microsoft says not only will businesses ensure GDPR compliance, but it will also help them “establish greater trust with customers and further unlock employee collaboration and productivity”.GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is an upcoming EU regulation that aims to organise how businesses gather, store, protect and share data from their users located … [Read more...] about Microsoft boosts GDPR preparation tools for businesses
Hybrid cloud holding you back? Try Microsoft Azure Stack
Cloud computing, in both public and private mode, has become the new enterprise standard. At the same time, enterprises are continuing to work with managed service providers (MSPs) for a widening range of IT solutions, including cloud support.These two trends are linked. CIO Senior Writer Thor Olavsrud last summer noted that “leaning on an MSP for a subset of your IT services can be a boon.” He also pointed to a CompTIA study indicating that the percentage of MSPs who say that cloud services play no role in their offerings was “almost immeasurably low.” A good case for combining the two is the hybrid cloud. Microsoft Azure Stack, the private cloud environment for Azure initially released in July 2017, is such a case.Hybrid platform and use casesThe promise of a hybrid cloud platform is its ability to bridge the public hyper-scale computing environment with that of the private cloud, whether deployed on-premises or in a third-party data center. It’s like … [Read more...] about Hybrid cloud holding you back? Try Microsoft Azure Stack