Experience Microsoft platform and cloud services to realise a better future

September 18, 2014 | 09:16
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Microsoft Vietnam is organising the knowledge exchange and sharing session of Microsoft’s cloud services with the theme “The Future of Cloud” for media and IT influencers in forums and social networks throughout Vietnam in the central city of Danang.

The focus is about platform and cloud services - key factor contributing to the change of enterprises’ development roadmap, as well as to bring big changes to life of users in the future.

At this event, leaders and technology professionals from Microsoft will bring useful and practical information that help audience get better understanding about core values of solutions and Microsoft’s cloud technology through presentations and demo of Window Azure, Office 365 and Window 8.1.

With a vision of the leader in cloud computing, Microsoft has made powerful transformation and breakthrough in the era of digital technology by constantly inventing and providing products, services and cloud solutions, ranging from private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud to meet market needs. Considered the main transformational development model of Microsoft, hybrid cloud solution is the most expected discussion topic of the event. This solution is the key point for the infrastructure transformation, applications and current data for enterprises in flexible and cost saving ways.

Microsoft Azure operating system and Windows Azure service pack tie into the Microsoft for the Cloud OS that helps enterprises quickly and flexibly build and manage modern applications, analyse information more precisely from different sources of data.

Window Azure Pack was built on the familiar foundation of Windows Server and System Center offers a flexible and familiar solution that your business can take advantage of to deliver self-service provisioning and management of infrastructure - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and application services - Platform as a Service (PaaS), such as Web Sites and Virtual Machines. With this service pack, enterprises have chance to experience consistent services with Window Azure operating system which integrate constituent applications, high-density web application hosting and flexible infrastructure.

“With hybrid cloud solution, Microsoft has realised the needs of enterprises for a unlimited data center, helping them get connected seamlessly between their on-site infrastructure to public cloud. Enterprises are able to take advantages of Window Azure to create a flexible, high secure and expandable infrastructure,” Vu Minh Tri, general director of Microsoft Vietnam shared. “Microsoft commits to bring the best products, services and solutions to businesses and users, as well as continuously implements this commitment through launches of platform and excellent services to meet the latest trends, particularly, for mobile devices and cloud computing.”

In addition, the focus of Microsoft’s cloud services is Office 365 that brings benefits to enterprises. Office 365 is fully integrated with Microsoft Office’s applications, as well as with collaborated and unified communications products, such as Exchange Office, SharePoint Online, Lync Online, OneDrive for Business, and Yammer, ensuring operation time is up to 99.9 per cent. Office 365 is considered a perfect office solution for enterprises that want to improve employee productivity and business performance. This is the product with new approach and deep integration to cloud services through innovative applications, to become stronger and more intelligent. Moreover, Office 365 is also optimised for touch technology to enable users easily work with touch devices like tablets and smartphones.

Office 365 owns features that used by 60 per cent world-largest corporates, top Fortune500, during the past year. This technology solution, for enterprises with strongest growth in the history of Microsoft, is considered a very interesting, compelling and most reliable cloud version of Microsoft. Besides, this is a strong support toolkit for busy users with high workload and family responsibilities. Smarter applications of Office 365 are an initialisation method, connection, share, info reader that allow users to easily access recent data. Office 365 users are able to present documents in any online meetings. Besides, Office 365 suite also supports users quickly to gather, organize and share information in an electronic notebook so that they can access data from anywhere, on whatever device they choose.

In addition, in an effort to serve users around the globe to access to modern and high quality services, Microsoft recently has raised the free capacity of OneDrive for individual users of Office 365 to 15GB. Subscribers are now able to use 1TB of data on OneDrive, a huge capacity to ensure users be able to work anytime, anywhere with high level of productivity and flexibility as data on the cloud is synchronised in real time.

“Office 365 is a great product that allows me to connect to the “cloud”. I can access to documents from anywhere an on any device to work with colleagues, partners and friends,” shared Dinh Huu Thanh, co-founder and administrator of Tinh te forum.

Microsoft professionals are also offering an impressive presentation to this event – the presentation and demo of the great combination of Window 8.1 and Window Azure, and Office 365, bringing a completely new experiences to users whether at work, at home, or on the go. Windows 8.1 evolves the Windows vision for highly personalised computing while showcasing Microsoft’s continued commitment to rapid and responsive development. It marks a wave of new, innovative devices coming for consumers and businesses — from the convenience and mobility of tablets and 2-in-1s to the productive experience expected from laptops, all-in-ones and specialised industry devices. 

By By Hoang Mai

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