Microsoft Finland - Software Developing Companies monthly community series.
Tervetuloa jälleen mukaan Microsoftin webinaarisarjaan teknologiayrityksille! Microsoft Finlandin järjestämä Software Development monthly Community series on webinaarisarja, joka tarjoaa ohjelmistotaloille ajankohtaista tietoa, konkreettisia esimerkkejä ja strategisia näkemyksiä siitä, miten yhteistyö Microsoftin kanssa voi vauhdittaa kasvua ja avata uusia liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia. Sarja on suunnattu kaikenkokoisille ja eri kehitysvaiheissa oleville teknologiayrityksille - startupeista globaaleihin toimijoihin. Jokaisessa jaksossa pureudutaan käytännönläheisesti siihen, miten ohjelmistoyritykset voivat hyödyntää Microsoftin ekosysteemiä, teknologioita ja kumppanuusohjelmia omassa liiketoiminnassaan. Huom. Microsoft Software Developing Companies monthly community webinars -webinaarisarja järjestetään Cloud Champion -sivustolla, josta webinaarit ovat kätevästi saatavilla tallenteina pari tuntia live-lähetyksen jälkeen. Muistathan rekisteröityä Cloud Champion -alustalle ensimmäisellä kerralla, jonka jälkeen pääset aina sisältöön sekä tallenteisiin käsiksi. Pääset rekisteröitymään, "Register now"-kohdasta. Täytä tietosi ja valitse Distributor kohtaan - Other, mikäli et tiedä Microsoft-tukkurianne. Webinaarit: 5.9.2025 klo 09:00-09:30 - Teknologiayritysten ja Microsoftin prioriteetit syksylle 2025. Tervetuloa jälleen mukaan Microsoftin webinaarisarjaan teknologiayrityksille! Jatkamme sarjassa kuukausittain pureutumista siihen, miten yhteistyö Microsoftin kanssa voi vauhdittaa kasvua ja avata uusia mahdollisuuksia eri vaiheissa oleville ohjelmistotaloille – olipa yritys sitten start-up, scale-up tai globaalia toimintaa harjoittava. Jokaisessa jaksossa jaamme konkreettisia esimerkkejä, näkemyksiä ja strategioita, jotka tukevat teknologia-alan yritysten liiketoiminnan kehitystä ja innovaatioita. Elokuun lopun jaksossa keskitymme syksyn 2025 prioriteetteihin ja uusiin mahdollisuuksiin, jotka tukevat ohjelmistoyritysten oman toiminnan suunnittelua, kehittämistä ja kasvun vauhdittamista. Käymme läpi, mitkä ovat Microsoftin strategiset painopisteet tulevalle tilikaudelle – ja ennen kaikkea, miten ohjelmistotalot voivat hyödyntää niitä omassa liiketoiminnassaan. Tavoitteena on tarjota kuulijoille selkeä ymmärrys siitä, miten oma tuote, palvelu tai markkinastrategia voidaan linjata ekosysteemin kehityksen kanssa, ja miten Microsoft voi tukea tätä matkaa konkreettisin keinoin. Puhujat: Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Katso nauhoitus täältä: Teknologiayritysten ja Microsoftin prioriteetit syksylle 2025. – Finland Cloud Champion 3.10. klo 09:00-09:30 - Autonomiset ratkaisut ohjelmistotaloille – Azure AI Foundry ja agenttiteknologioiden uudet mahdollisuudet Agenttiteknologiat mullistavat tapaa, jolla ohjelmistotalot voivat rakentaa älykkäitä ja skaalautuvia ratkaisuja. Tässä webinaarissa tutustumme siihen, miten Azure AI Foundry tarjoaa kehittäjille ja tuoteomistajille työkalut autonomisten agenttien rakentamiseen – mahdollistaen monimutkaisten prosessien automatisoinnin ja uudenlaisen asiakasarvon tuottamisen. Kuulet mm. Miten agenttiteknologiat muuttavat ohjelmistokehitystä ja liiketoimintaa. Miten Azure AI Foundry tukee agenttien suunnittelua, kehitystä ja käyttöönottoa. Miten ohjelmistotalot voivat hyödyntää agentteja kilpailuetuna. Puhujat: Juha Karvonen, Sr Partner Tech Strategist Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Katso nauhoite täältä: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Autonomiset ratkaisut ohjelmistotaloille – Azure AI Foundry ja agenttiteknologioiden uudet mahdollisuudet – Finland Cloud Champion 31.10. klo 09:00-09:30 - Kasvua ja näkyvyyttä ohjelmistotaloille – hyödynnä ISV Success ja Azure Marketplace rewards -ohjelmia Tässä webinaarissa pureudumme ohjelmistotaloille suunnattuihin Microsoftin keskeisiin kiihdytinohjelmiin, jotka tukevat kasvua, skaalautuvuutta ja kansainvälistä näkyvyyttä. Käymme läpi, miten ISV Success -ohjelma tarjoaa teknistä ja kaupallista tukea ohjelmistoyrityksille eri kehitysvaiheissa, ja miten Azure Marketplace toimii tehokkaana myyntikanavana uusien asiakkaiden tavoittamiseen. Lisäksi esittelemme Marketplace Rewards -edut, jotka tukevat markkinointia, yhteismyyntiä ja asiakashankintaa Microsoftin ekosysteemissä. Webinaari tarjoaa: Konkreettisia esimerkkejä ohjelmien hyödyistä Käytännön vinkkejä ohjelmiin liittymiseen ja hyödyntämiseen Näkemyksiä siitä, miten ohjelmistotalot voivat linjata strategiansa Microsoftin tarjoamiin mahdollisuuksiin Puhujat: Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Kasvua ja näkyvyyttä ohjelmistotaloille – hyödynnä ISV Success ja Azure Marketplace rewards -ohjelmia 28.11. klo 09:00-09:30 - Pilvipalvelut omilla ehdoilla – mitä Microsoftin Sovereign Cloud tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? Yhä useampi ohjelmistotalo kohtaa vaatimuksia datan sijainnista, sääntelyn noudattamisesta ja operatiivisesta kontrollista – erityisesti julkisella sektorilla ja säädellyillä toimialoilla. Tässä webinaarissa pureudumme siihen, miten Microsoftin uusi Sovereign Cloud -tarjonta vastaa näihin tarpeisiin ja mitä mahdollisuuksia se avaa suomalaisille ohjelmistoyrityksille. Keskustelemme muun muassa: Miten Sovereign Public ja Private Cloud eroavat ja mitä ne mahdollistavat? Miten datan hallinta, salaus ja operatiivinen suvereniteetti toteutuvat eurooppalaisessa kontekstissa? Mitä tämä tarkoittaa ohjelmistoyrityksille, jotka rakentavat ratkaisuja julkiselle sektorille tai säädellyille toimialoille? Puhujat: Juha Karppinen, National Security Officer, Microsoft Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Pilvipalvelut omilla ehdoilla – mitä Microsoftin Sovereign Cloud tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? 12.12. klo 09:00-09:30 - Mitä Suomen Azure-regioona tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? Microsoftin uusi datakeskusalue Suomeen tuo pilvipalvelut lähemmäksi suomalaisia ohjelmistotaloja – olipa kyseessä startup, scaleup tai globaali toimija. Webinaarissa pureudumme siihen, mitä mahdollisuuksia uusi Azure-regioona avaa datan sijainnin, suorituskyvyn, sääntelyn ja asiakasvaatimusten näkökulmasta. Keskustelemme muun muassa: Miten datan paikallinen sijainti tukee asiakasvaatimuksia ja sääntelyä? Mitä hyötyä ohjelmistotaloille on pienemmästä latenssista ja paremmasta suorituskyvystä? Miten Azure-regioona tukee yhteismyyntiä ja skaalautumista Suomessa? Miten valmistautua teknisesti ja kaupallisesti uuden regioonan avaamiseen? Puhujat: Fama Doumbouya, Sales Director, Cloud Infra and Security, Microsoft Mikko Marttinen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Eetu Roponen, Sr Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Rekisteröintilinkki: Microsoft Finland – Software Developing Companies Monthly Community Series – Mitä Suomen Azure-regioona tarkoittaa ohjelmistotaloille? – Finland Cloud ChampionNow Generally Available: Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution
Co authored by: vjirovsky Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate Independent Software Vendors (ISV) SaaS with a unified billing on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you the same trusted Pure Storage capabilities in the cloud, without the complexity of refactoring or rearchitecting your VMware environments. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. Azure Native Integrations enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate Independent Software Vendors (ISV) SaaS with a unified billing on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, Pure Storage Cloud Service offers you the same trusted Pure Storage capabilities in the cloud, without the complexity of refactoring or rearchitecting your VMware environments. You can easily discover and sign up for this via the Azure Marketplace. “We’re excited to announce Microsoft’s strengthened partnership with Pure Storage through the Azure Native Integrations program. With the service now generally available, customers can seamlessly deploy enterprise-grade block storage on Pure directly from the Azure portal. This seamless integration with Azure VMware Solution enables elastic capacity, flexible performance, and instant resizing – all while unlocking the full power of Azure’s cloud and AI capabilities.” - Scott Hunter, Vice President Product Management, Microsoft Developer Division Key Benefits of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud on AVS Enterprise customers migrating VMware workloads to the cloud have long faced challenges with storage scalability, cost inefficiencies, and operational overhead. With this GA release, Pure Storage removes those barriers and delivers: Decoupled Scalability & Flexibility: across Compute and Storage solutions, so you pay only for what you need. Seamless Native Azure Experience: Provision Pure Storage Cloud resources via the client of your choice - Azure portal, CLI, PowerShell or SDK. Multi-Region support: Enjoy the support for your Pure Storage resource across East US, East US 2, West US 2, Central US and Australia East regions, with many more coming in shortly! Cost Efficiency: Achieve up to 40% Total Cost of Operations (TCO) savings through best-in-class data reduction and compression solutions. Streamlined VMware Migration: Simplify the transition of VMware workloads from on-premises or hybrid and multi-cloud environments onto Azure with consistent storage performance, nearly zero downtime, and minimal business disruption. Easy management: Perform all daily operations on AVS from a single VMware vSphere client directly via built-in plugin for Pure Storage Cloud Robust performance and reliability for mission-critical workloads with enterprise-grade Data protection and Data resilience support, with solutions such as Pure Snapshots and Hybrid Disaster Recovery in the pipeline. Fig 1: Pure Storage benefits of decoupled storage scalability. Why Pure Storage? Gartner report from Sept 2025 states that by 2029, consumption-based storage as a service (STaaS) will replace 50% of on-premises enterprise storage and data services infrastructure capital expenditure (capex), an increase from 15% in early 2025. Pure Storage® is a pivotal storage player among the Enterprise customers in revolutionizing the storage, management and resiliency while ensuring flexibility. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a seamless cloud migration experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) platform across on-premises, private and public cloud, and hybrid environments. Pure has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms, with highest rating in Execution & Vision. An enterprise-favorite, some key customers for Pure Storage include ServiceNow, NASA, Comcast and many more! Fig 2: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, Sep 2025, Gartner Inc. Get Started with Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud Getting started is simple and fully integrated into the Azure experience. You can now start your journey quick and easy, and you pay only for the storage you use. For a detailed step-by-step visual guide, check out this YouTube playlist. Search and Provisioning the Pure Storage Cloud Resource Look for “Pure Storage Cloud” in the Azure portal or Azure Marketplace and sign up to subscribe. Select the service and create a new Pure Storage resource. Follow the instructions in the QuickStart to easily spin up your Pure Storage resource. Fig 3: Searching for Azure Native Pure Storage via Azure portal Create Storage Pools Using your Vnet and a delegated subnet to PureStorage.Block/storagePools, use the Overview blade navigation or the Action tile in the bottom to create and configure your storage pools. Fig 4: Newly created Pure Storage resource Overview in Azure portal Fig 5: Create Storage pool blade in Azure portal Connect to an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) resource Once created, you can use the Connect button up top to link your storage pool to AVS. In a few minutes, your storage pool is coupled with your VMware resource and ready to use! Fig 6: Connect AVS button establishes connection between storage pool and AVS resource Also, it automatically installs the Pure Storage Cloud plugin into your VMware resource, so you can manage everything, including the storage, from a single place, vSphere Client. Fig 7: Creation of a Datastore within the vSphere Client – this maps to a Storage container on your Pure Storage Cloud resource We’re excited for you to try out our solution! If you have suggestions or questions, contact us at azurenative@purestorage.com Resources Sign up for the service via Azure marketplace here. For a detailed visual guide on the step-by-step process to create a Pure Storage resource on Azure, check out this YouTube playlist. To learn more about the service, FAQ, and how to create your resource, check out the Microsoft docs as well as the Pure docs. Learn about how to create datastores and volumes and manage your Pure Storage here. Check out Azure Storage's blog and Pure’s press release for more excitement around the Pure-Microsoft partnership.Partner experience using Microsoft ECIF Funding for Federal sector?
Looking for some general feedback from ISV, SI, MSP community... We're a mid-sized ISV with some enterprise services capability focused on deployments, cloud migration of both our own and some Microsoft security workloads. We've never used ECIF, but have a few targets where it would be valuable. I'm getting great support from Microsoft program team to onboard to the program and expect to have us activated shortly. Scope-wise, we have a handful of targets and would probably be pleased to execute with them in upcoming year. Question - what are your experiences with ECIF for Fed? What's the "operational lift" to manage a program and capture this benefit? Has this worked well for you? Has it been cumbersome? Any particular areas we should especially focus attention to ensure smooth execution? Any general guidance appreciated.Azure Native Integrations: General Availability of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure
We're excited to announce the general availability of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure. This integration empowers Quality Assurance (QA) teams with a unified TestOps control plane embedded directly in Azure, enabling faster, more reliable, and scalable testing workflows. With the integration with Azure, customers can leverage KaneAI which is a GenAI-Native testing Agent. Cloud-Native + AI-Native: The Future of QA Layer Cloud-Native (HyperExecute) AI-Native (KaneAI) Combined Benefits Performance • Intelligent parallel orchestration across Azure regions • Fast environment spin‑up via reusable templates • Dependency caching for sub‑minute starts • AI‑driven test script generation • Automated maintenance and updates • Smart test orchestration with fewer manual triggers Up to 70% faster test cycles with AI-assisted authoring and seamless, scalable orchestration Reliability • Auto‑scaling infra with built-in failover • Consistent environments remove “works on my machine” • Retry logic & flaky test suppression • Predictive flaky test detection • Auto‑healing with ML-suggested fixes • Root cause analytics with learning feedback loops Near-zero flakiness and increased release confidence via intelligent infra + AI-powered recovery Precision • Granular test matrices for environment-specific runs • Broad platform coverage (OS, browsers, frameworks) • Controlled, versioned infra • Risk-based test prioritization • Predictive coverage analysis • Intelligent gap detection Maximized ROI by executing only the most critical tests with minimal noise and optimal coverage Together, they form a QA productivity engine that scales with your velocity, reliability, and precision needs. Next steps We would love for you to test out the experience and share your feedback! You can review our documentation, browse to the following link and create the Azure Native LambdaTest – HyperExecute resource right from the Azure portal. Do share you feedback here.Azure Native Integrations: General Availability of Arize AI on Azure
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Native integration with Arize AI, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2024. This integration brings advanced AI observability and evaluation capabilities directly into the Azure ecosystem, enabling data scientists and ML engineers to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve their models with ease. Why Arize AI? Arize AI addresses critical challenges in AI observability and evaluation, offering: Real-time model monitoring to detect performance degradation Automated root cause analysis for faster troubleshooting Bias detection and mitigation to ensure fairness Performance tracking across different segments and cohorts Seamless integration with Azure ML and other Azure services Azure Native Integration: Enterprise-Grade AI Observability Arize AI is deeply integrated into Azure across four key dimensions: Category Azure Native Capabilities Security & Compliance Azure AD, RBAC, and policy inheritance Deployment Provision and manage Arize AI applications using Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI and SDK Resource Management Instant provisioning, elastic scaling, cost-optimized infrastructure, single sign-on Procurement & Billing Available via Azure Marketplace with integrated billing Cloud-Native + AI-Native: The Future of AI Observability Arize AI delivers an intelligent observability platform: Auto-generate insights from model performance data Risk-based prioritization using historical performance and business impact Conversational debugging with natural language queries Predictive performance degradation detection and auto-healing Together, they form an AI observability engine that scales with your velocity, reliability, and precision needs. Next steps We would love to hear from you! You can go through our documentation, try out the experience and share your feedback.Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of Arize AI on Azure
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Azure Native integration with Arize AI, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2024. This integration brings AI agent observability and evaluation to Azure, empowering AI engineers and developers to build more scalable, reliable, and effective AI applications and AI agents The integration of Arize AI with Azure provides AI teams with the ability to detect issues, troubleshoot why they happened, and improve overall AI agent and application quality. Benefits of Arize AI Evaluate and Improve the Quality of AI Agents and Apps: Arize AI offers powerful tools to develop, evaluate, and monitor AI applications. It enables prompt optimization and management, supports real-time evaluations of live systems, and provides deep observability for end-to-end tracing. Improved Application Reliability: By continuously evaluating and monitoring generative app performance, Arize AI helps ensures AI applications are working with enterprise quality outcomes. Faster Development Cycles: Arize AI allows for rapid iteration using pre-production app evaluations and workflows to test models, prompts and agents. Automatically optimize prompts with auto-optimization services and test AI applications with CI/CD based experiment runs. Features of Azure Native Integration with Arize AI Seamless Development Experience: Azure Native Integrations facilitate a smooth onboarding process, allowing you to quickly integrate Arize AI into your existing Azure workflows while leveraging Azure’s secure and scalable infrastructure. Simplified Deployment: Easily provision and manage Arize AI applications using familiar tools such as Azure portal, ARM templates, CLI, and SDK. Ease of Billing: Control your third-party spends directly from the Azure Marketplace, simplifying the billing process. Single Sign-On: Seamlessly switch between Azure resources and Arize AI without needing to enter your credentials again. How it works? Next steps We would love to hear from you! Try out the public preview experience and give us feedback. For more information, you can refer to our documentation.Azure Native Integrations: Public Preview of LambdaTest HyperExecute on Azure
Power of Azure Native Integration The native integration with Azure brings several key advantages to organizations already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem: Seamless Resource Management Provision HyperExecute resources directly from the Azure portal Unified billing and cost management through your existing Azure subscription Single-Sign on capability to the LambdaTest-Hyperexecute instance Streamlined CI/CD integration Native connectivity with Azure DevOps pipelines and integration with GitHub Actions running in Azure Built-in support for Azure Artifacts and container registries Automatic test result synchronization with Azure Test Plans Enhanced Security and Compliance Integration with Azure Active Directory for identity management Leverage existing Azure security policies and compliance certifications Data residency controls aligned with Azure regions Why LambdaTest HyperExecute? LambdaTest HyperExecute is an AI-native next-generation test orchestration platform designed to run automated tests at incredible speeds. It addresses common pain points in test automation: Test execution speed: Dramatically reduces test execution time by up to 70%. Flaky tests: Minimizes inconsistent test results by delivering stable, standardized, and consistent test environments Infrastructure management: Eliminates the need to maintain testing infrastructure, saving on hardware costs, and IT management overhead Scalability challenges: Provides instant access to thousands of browser and OS combinations without requiring you to provision, configure, or maintain these environments yourself enabling on-demand scaling for peak testing needs. Customers today can have 1000+ parallel sessions. LambdaTest HyperExecute's advanced Test Intelligence capabilities provide unprecedented visibility into your test suite performance, helping teams move beyond simple pass/fail metrics to truly understand test behavior patterns. Comprehensive Flakiness Management Automated Error Analytics HyperExecute doesn't just run tests faster—it fundamentally transforms how teams approach testing by combining acceleration with intelligence to help you ship better software with confidence. How it works? Next steps We would love for you to test out the public preview experience and share your feedback! Browse to the following link and create the Azure Native LambdaTest HyperExecute resource right from the Azure portal. Do share you feedback here.
