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Microsoft Tech Summit is back – register for a free event near you!

Announcing the 2017–2018 Microsoft Tech Summit global tour! Build your skills with the latest in cloud technologies at a free, technical learning event for IT professionals and developers, coming to a city near you. We’re hitting the road with our top engineers to bring you two days of in-depth sessions, networking opportunities, industry insights, and hands-on skill-building with the experts behind Microsoft’s cloud services.

The cloud is changing expectations and transforming the way we live and work. Whether you’re developing innovative apps or delivering optimized solutions, Microsoft Tech Summit can help you evolve your skills, deepen your expertise, and grow your career.

Discover the latest trends, tools, and product roadmaps at more than 70 sessions, covering a range of topics across Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, which includes Windows 10, Office 365, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. From beginner sessions that will help you develop core cloud skills, to advanced, 400-level training that will take your expertise to the next level, there is something for everyone.

This year, we’re adding a new event Hub, the primary gathering place where you can learn, network, meet partners, and visit the community theater. You’ll also have direct access to Microsoft experts who bring you Azure and Microsoft 365 – ask your toughest questions, learn best practices, provide feedback, and share strategies to optimize operations and deliver more value to your organization.

Microsoft Tech Summit Tour Schedule

 

November 16 – 17, 2017
Sydney 

November 29 – 30, 2017    
Tel Aviv  

December 6 – 7, 2017
São Paulo

December 13 – 14, 2017
Toronto

January 17 – 18, 2018
Singapore

January 24 – 25, 2018
Birmingham (UK)

February 13 – 14, 2018
Cape Town

February 21 – 22, 2018
Frankfurt

March 5 – 6, 2018
Washington, D.C.

March 14 – 15, 2018
Paris

March 19 – 20, 2018
San Francisco

March 28 – 29, 2018
Amsterdam

April 17 – 18, 2018
Stockholm

April 25 – 26, 2018
Warsaw

Join us for the Microsoft Tech Summit, and learn how Microsoft’s cloud platform can help you lead your organization through real digital transformation, and shape your future. Registration is now open – find a city near you and reserve your free seat today. 

Don’t miss out, register now!
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How two companies reinvented themselves with SAP S/4HANA and managed IBM Cloud

SAP data and applications are mission-critical assets that impact operations across an entire enterprise. With that in mind, leaders count on SAP architects and developers to discover new ways to derive value from their enterprise resource planning (ERP) environments as they migrate to S/4HANA.
At the SAP TechEd conference later this month, I’ll share in-depth examples of companies that have transformed business processes by deploying HANA with cloud managed services.
Here’s a short preview:
Footwear company reinvents its entire IT environment in less than two years
After some business changes, a footwear company had only two years to stand up an entirely new IT infrastructure before it could no longer use the platform of its former parent company. To achieve that goal, the company implemented the SAP Fashion Management solution to handle all of its manufacturing, wholesale and retail operations. The solution runs on an SAP HANA database deployed on managed IBM Cloud.
The managed cloud deployment hosts the SAP and non-SAP applications that compose the company’s complete enterprise landscape. Service-level agreements help ensure high application availability and disaster recovery while enabling the company to be agile enough to change as needed, whether that means scaling for capacity or rapid provisioning of IT resources for new initiatives.
Within a few weeks, the company was running its entire SAP system without any in-house technical support. With IBM managing the day-to-day maintenance of the private cloud infrastructure, the company could focus on designing and selling quality footwear.
Construction services company builds a better infrastructure
A construction services company wanted to improve its decision making in business operations. The key to unlocking this insight lay in analyzing data from sales, logistics and finance. That information was stored in multiple, independent systems which made cross-analysis slow, inefficient and prone to errors.
IBM worked with this company to create a new, more integrated IT environment, using SAP S/4HANA to consolidate finance, sales and logistics data into a single repository. The solution is deployed using IBM Cloud for SAP Applications, which frees the IT team from the burden of managing and maintaining a physical infrastructure.
With a unified way to manage inventory and financial data, the company can access enterprise information 50 percent faster and has reduced response times by 42 percent, driving faster service delivery and improved customer satisfaction scores. It has also reduced operational costs by around 15 percent while enjoying the benefits of a security-rich and highly accessible cloud environment.
Come to SAP TechEd in Las Vegas 25 – 29 September to learn how IBM helped build and implement these S/4HANA solutions. Be sure to register for speaking session CPL156 and visit IBM at booth 708. Visit the SAP TechEd website to register.
To learn more about how the right managed cloud services provider can maximize the value of your SAP deployment, read this analyst report from Frost & Sullivan.
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Five principles of innovation in the cloud

If you work in IT you may have noticed that you live in a world of competing agendas. On one side are the forces that expect you to do what you have always done, “keep the lights on.” On the other, you are being driven to innovate so you can seize new opportunities, support evolving business needs, and better serve customers.

Despite the tendency to be risk-averse, as more and more companies move to cloud environments certain principles have emerged to help foster a more innovative IT mindset, and a more central role for IT within the corporation. The following are some of the tenets for making this transition, as covered in the book Enterprise Cloud Strategy (2nd ed.) and the related upcoming webinar:

Go fast: The cloud enables projects to be spun up quickly, which allows you to “try many, use best,” and learn quickly from what doesn’t work.
Push the boundaries: IT not only needs to adapt to the cloud, but embrace new architectures and processes, and test limits, including designing “net new” apps and refactoring legacy apps for PaaS and SaaS.
Make data-driven decisions: Use the monitoring and analytics capabilities of the cloud to track costs and technical efficiency so you can make smart decisions about which apps are generating the biggest return.
Simplify: Retire, consolidate, and right-size as many services and applications as possible to free up resources.
Communicate to succeed: Establishing clear, ongoing communication with stakeholders is the single most important factor for successful innovation.

You’ll find in-depth guidance on encouraging experimentation and other important facets of cloud migration in our webinar featuring authors Barry Briggs and Eduardo Kassner.

Sign up for the webinar!
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Preview: Linux Containers on Windows

Microsoft is getting ready for the next big update for Windows Server (check out today’s complimentary Microsoft blog post) and some of the new features are very exciting for Docker users. One of the most important enhancements is that Docker can now run Linux containers on Windows, using Hyper-V technology.
Running Docker Linux containers on Windows requires a minimal Linux kernel and userland to host the container processes. This is exactly what the LinuxKit toolkit was designed for: creating secure, lean and portable Linux subsystems that can provide Linux container functionality as a component of a container platform.
We’ve been busy prototyping LinuxKit support for Docker Linux containers on Windows and have a working preview for you to try. This is still a work in progress, and requires either the recently announced  “Windows Server Insider” or Windows 10 Insider builds.
 
Running Docker Linux Containers on Windows with LinuxKit
The instructions below have been tested on Windows 10 and Windows Server Insider builds 16278 and 16281.
Be sure to install Docker for Windows (Windows 10) or Docker Enterprise Edition (Windows Server Insider) before starting.

Setup Docker and LinuxKit
A preview build of  LinuxKit is available by simply running the following commands in PowerShell (with Administrator rights):
$progressPreference = ‘silentlyContinue’
mkdir “$Env:ProgramFilesLinux Containers”

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -OutFile linuxkit.zip <https://github.com/friism/linuxkit/releases/download/preview-1/linuxkit.zip<

Expand-Archive linuxkit.zip -DestinationPath “$Env:ProgramFilesLinux Containers.”
rm linuxkit.zip
Now get a master branch build of the Docker daemon that contains preview support for Linux containers on Windows:
Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -OutFile dockerd.exe https://master.dockerproject.org/windows/x86_64/dockerd.exe
Start a new Docker daemon listening on a separate pipe and using a separate storage location from the default install:
$Env:LCOW_SUPPORTED=1
.dockerd.exe -D -H “npipe:////./pipe//docker_lcow” –data-root c:lcow
Try it
Run a Linux container:
docker -H “npipe:////./pipe//docker_lcow” run -ti busyboxbusybox@sha256:b82b5740006c1ab823596d2c07f081084ecdb32fd258072707b99f52a3cb8692 sh
Docker just launched a minimal VM running a LinuxKit instance hosting the Linux container!
Since this is an early preview there are some limitations, but basic Docker operations like pull and run work.

Looking ahead
Both Windows Server Insider builds and Docker support for Linux containers on Windows are in early preview mode. When GA, Docker Linux containers on Windows will improve the Docker Linux container experience for both Windows developers and server administrators. Developers will be able to more easily build and test mixed Windows/Linux Docker applications by running containers for both platforms side-by-side on the same system.
And IT-admins that prefer Windows will soon be able to easily run (mostly) Linux-only software like HAProxy and Redis on Windows systems by way of Docker Linux containers on Windows. For example, Docker Linux containers on Windows will make setting up Docker Enterprise Edition and Universal Control Plane (which relies on some Linux-only components) on Windows Server much simpler.
We hope this LinuxKit-based walkthrough will set you up to start experimenting. Feedback is always welcome! For general help and getting started with Insider builds use the Windows Feedback Hub (Windows 10), or the Windows Server Insiders Tech Community. For issues with LinuxKit and Docker support for Linux containers on Windows use the Docker for Windows issue tracker on GitHub. And let us know on Twitter if you build something cool!
 
More Resources:

Read the complimentary post about Linux Container on Windows on the Microsoft blog
Download Docker for Windows 10 and Docker for Windows Server
Learn more about Docker Enterprise Edition
Attend the Linux Container on Windows and LinuxKit sessions @DockerCon

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