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MicroStrategy Partners with Azure, AWS at World 2019 Event
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Enterprise analytics and mobility software provider MicroStrategy Feb. 5 shared new partnership news with major cloud companies, including the launch of the MicroStrategy 2019 platform on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
MicroStrategy 2019 on AWS and Azure will allow customers to launch and manage fully-configured analytics as well as intelligence projects.
For AWS, the partnership will allow for the management of multiple environments via a single provisioning console, the backup and restore of MicroStrategy environments between on-prem and cloud environments, and deploy MicroStrategy on AWS in data centers three U.S. states and eight foreign countries.
For Azure, clients will be able to deploy MicroStrategy 2019 in an optimized, single-tenant instance, using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, choose between different deployment architectures, capable of scaling to tens of thousands of users, and configure popular technologies and data services on the Microsoft Azure Stack.
“MicroStrategy 2019 features a modern, open, enterprise-class analytics architecture that is optimized to deliver exceptional security, performance, and reliability in the cloud,” said Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy. “Our work with AWS and Alexa for Business gives our customers a powerful analytics platform to build innovative solutions that can deliver time savings and financial benefits, and help them become a more intelligent enterprise.
“The combination of our platform and Microsoft Azure is powerful. With just a few clicks, customers can provision a fully-configured MicroStrategy 2019 environment on Azure and easily manage that environment, helping them to realize time savings and financial benefits – and ultimately enabling them to change how they run their businesses.”
John ‘JG’ Chirapurath, GM of Azure data and AI at Microsoft, added: “Leading analytics customers are starting new projects and moving their current workloads to Microsoft Azure in order to benefit from its flexibility, scalability, and reliability. MicroStrategy 2019 on Azure will accelerate this adoption and help leading organizations realize the benefits of a full-featured enterprise cloud analytics platform in Azure.”
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