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Around the globe, IT Pros are facing unprecedented challenges in their environments. From supporting hundreds, if not thousands, of newly-remote workers, handling a significant increase in VPN connections or trying to backup data that is outside the firewall – for many of us, we are in uncharted waters. At Petri, our mission is to create…

This year has been a rough one for the event industry with nearly all in-person events being canceled. Microsoft has already canceled its in-person MVP summit, Build, and partner summit called Inspire and it’s not surprising to hear that the company is also altering its Ignite conference as well.

To those who have been working 24×7 to keep the networks alive, who imaged 100s of laptops, issued security tokens, and have been looking at health metrics for your environment as they inch closer to failing-over, thank you.

Microsoft has announced that its developer conference, Build, is moving to a virtual-only event with the on-site portion of the conference being cancelled.

In about two weeks, Microsoft was scheduled to host its annual MVP summit at its offices in Seattle, Washington. The company has started notifying attendees today that the company is canceling the in-person event and will move to a virtual event instead.

It’s that time of the year again and Microsoft has released its earnings for Q2 fiscal / Q4 calendar and the company beat estimates for revenue and earnings per share. The company brought in $36.9 billion in revenue with $11.6 billion of that being Net Income.

As 2019 comes to an end and we look forward to 2020, we want to know what technology you are using at work. As we have done the past couple of years, the Petri.com reader survey is now live with one lucky participant winning $250 Amazon gift card. 

This week, Microsoft is hosting its largest IT Pro conference of the year in Orlando, Florida. If you are not able to attend but still want to watch the keynotes, you can find the live stream after the jump.

Microsoft has reported it’s Q1 FY earnings with Office 365 and the company’s cloud services pushing the revenue needle higher.

Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a company that specializes in data governance.