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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

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In this era of hybrid work, shadow IT creates an increasingly serious security risk. Defender EASM helps cloud security teams see unknown and unmanaged resources outside the firewall.

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Azure Migrate

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Azure Migrate helps you to discover and assess the suitability of on-premises machines for migration to Azure, and provides sizing and cost estimates for running Azure VMs.

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Azure Web App for Containers

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Azure Web App for Containers deploys the containerized app with your preferred dependencies to production in seconds. The platform automatically takes care of OS patching, capacity provisioning, and load balancing.

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Azure Media Analytics

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Azure Media Analytics is a collection of speech and vision components that organizations and enterprises use to get actionable insights from their video files through machine learning technology.

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Azure SDK

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Azure SDK helps you to access even more cloud resources and services to improve your Azure development experience directly from Visual Studio.

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Dynamics 365 Remote Assist

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Empower technicians to collaborate more efficiently by working together from different locations with Dynamics 365 Remote Assist on HoloLens, Android, or iOS devices.

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Azure SQL Server Stretch Database

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Azure SQL Server Stretch Database was a feature introduced in SQL Server 2016 that allowed organizations to dynamically extend their on-premises databases to Azure, enabling seamless access to both hot and cold data without significant changes to existing applications. This capability provided virtually unlimited storage and compute capacity, facilitating efficient management of large datasets. Key Features and Functionality: - Dynamic Data Stretching: Automatically migrate cold or infrequently accessed data from on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure, while keeping hot data on-premises for optimal performance. - Transparent Query Processing: Execute queries across both on-premises and Azure-stored data without modifying existing applications, as the process is transparent to users. - Integrated Security: Utilize Always Encrypted technology to ensure that sensitive data is encrypted before being transferred to Azure, with encryption keys remaining on-premises. - Scalability: Leverage Azure's scalable storage and compute resources to manage growing data volumes without the need for significant infrastructure investments. Primary Value and User Solutions: Azure SQL Server Stretch Database addressed the challenges of managing large and growing datasets by providing a cost-effective solution for archiving cold data without compromising accessibility. It enabled organizations to maintain compliance with data retention policies and regulatory requirements by keeping data online and readily available. By offloading cold data to Azure, businesses could optimize on-premises storage and compute resources, leading to improved performance and reduced maintenance costs. However, it's important to note that Microsoft announced the deprecation of the SQL Server Stretch Database feature in SQL Server 2022, with the supporting Azure service retired as of July 9, 2024. Organizations are advised to explore alternative solutions for managing cold data, such as utilizing the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT (CETaS) feature in SQL Server 2022, which allows archiving data to Azure Storage in Parquet format for cost-effective storage and analytics.

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Azure Table Storage

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Azure Table storage stores large amounts of structured data. The service is a NoSQL datastore which accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud.

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Azure FXT Edge Filer

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Hybrid storage optimization solution for HPC environments

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Aswin K.
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Aswin K.
Business Support Analyst at Zscaler
08/08/2026
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Highly Targeted Semantic Search with Microsoft Knowledge

Microsoft Knowledge Exploration will carry out a highly targeted search focused specifically on the “Knowledge Exploration Service” (KES), a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, in order to retrieve the exact capabilities that have been praised.
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System Engineer || Azure Virtual Desktop || Intune
08/08/2026
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Unified Multi-Cloud Security Posture Management in One Pane of Glass

What stands out most about Microsoft Defender for Cloud is its unified, multi-cloud approach to cloud security posture management (CSPM) and workload protection across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform—all from a single pane of glass. It continuously scans cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations and checks it against industry compliance standards, then produces a real-time, actionable Secure Score along with prioritized, contextual alerts backed by rich threat intelligence. With agentless scanning and deep native integration across cloud services, it becomes easier to spot vulnerabilities early, prevent security drift, and secure hybrid environments without adding operational friction for security and DevOps teams.
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Adrie B.
08/08/2026
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Attack Path Analysis That Makes Cloud Risk Actionable

It’s not just a scanner—it’s a control plane that connects posture findings to real remediation, and it’s become genuinely strong at doing that. A few things that stand out for me: Attack path analysis. This is the feature that changed how I run client conversations. Instead of handing someone a spreadsheet with 400 “high severity” findings, I can show an actual graph: “this exposed VM connects to this database with this over-permissioned identity, and here’s the three-hop path an attacker would take.” It turns abstract risk into a story leadership can actually follow, and it pushes prioritization instead of the usual whack-a-mole. Unifying CSPM and CWPP in one place. Before this was consolidated, I was stitching together posture data from one tool and runtime threat detection from another for every client. Now I can see recommendations and active threat alerts in the same console, often tied to the same resource. That correlation—“this resource is misconfigured and is also showing suspicious activity right now”—is where the real value shows up. Multi-cloud without needing a separate product. Being able to onboard an AWS account and evaluate it against the same posture framework as an Azure subscription, all in the same portal, still feels like a genuine win. A lot of clients end up with hybrid environments almost by accident (for example, shadow IT AWS accounts spun up by a dev team), and having one pane of glass to catch that is worth a lot. Native reporting. I’ve mentioned this earlier, but it deserves its own callout: being able to build a CNAPP Executive Summary report inside the product and export it for a board deck—rather than exporting raw data into Power BI every quarter—has saved me hours per client. If I had to pick just one highlight, though, it’s the attack path graph. It’s what turns “here’s a wall of alerts” into “here’s what actually matters and why,” and that’s basically the whole job of a security consultant.

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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 8,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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