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Data Analytics Around the World with Azure
Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that gives you a single view of your most critical business data. Monitor the health of your business using a live, easy-to-use dashboard, create rich interactive reports with Power BI Desktop and access your data from anywhere with native Power B...

City of Houston: Enabling a mobile workforce
Population growth is an inevitable aspect of modern cities, and with it comes the need for better infrastructure, more accessible services, and innovative communications channels that provide two-way communication between the government and its citizens. A bigger population also requires more public...

Customer Story: Lilly Envisions a Workplace Where Collaboration Enables Innovation
Pharmaceutical company, Lilly, aspires to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. Prioritizing both caring and discovery, they’re using Microsoft 365 to support creative teamwork and dissolve physical barriers through in-lab collaboration. At Coretek Services, we can help...

Customer Story: Special Olympics
The Special Olympics, a global nonprofit that celebrates differences and promotes acceptance, inclusion, and healthy competition, is using technology to achieve more. The organization uses the Microsoft Cloud to track and access data for nearly 5 million athletes in 170 countries. Cloud technology h...

WS + SQL 2008 Extended Security Updates FAQ
As the end of support for Windows Server SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 approaches, questions will undoubtedly arise, especially relating to the Extended Security Updates offered by Microsoft. This document is here to answer those questions. View: WS + SQL 2008 Extended Security Updates FAQ

Inside Managed SIEM Services
In a world with more security threats than ever, maintaining a proactive and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity is no longer about protecting your employees from simple phishing attacks. You must be prepared to stop complex professional attacks on your infrastructure. With that in mind, organiz...

Azure Savings Plan for Compute
What is it? Azure Savings Plan for Compute is a new pricing model where eligible customers commit to spend an hourly amount of money on select Azure compute services in exchange for lower prices. The plan provides a convenient and flexible way to save up to 65% on the cost of compute services compar...

10 Key Takeaways From Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant For Cloud IaaS
According to Gartner, there are no more challengers left in the cloud market. Only a handful of leaders will drive cloud adoption from now on. It’s no wonder that Microsoft is one of those leaders. Because Azure runs on most Windows and Linux-based workloads, most IT pros are familiar with it–making...