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Azure VMware Solutions deliver a comprehensive environment allowing customers to run native VMware workloads on Azure.

You can now seamlessly run, manage, and secure applications across VMware environments on-premises and in Microsoft Azure with a common operating framework.
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Why Azure?

By using Azure, organizations get scale, automation, and fast provisioning for their VMware workloads on the global Azure infrastructure. VMware workloads on Azure can easily be modernized through integration with services such as Azure Active Directory, Azure AI, and Analytics, thus enabling new, intelligent experiences. Microsoft’s technologies work best when integrated and allows for optimized solutions. Take advantage of unmatched Azure pricing for Windows Server and SQL Server and utilize Microsoft’s Hybrid Use Benefit as well!

Are You Leveraging the Full Compliance Capabilities of Microsoft 365?

This Interlink Workshop Can Show You How
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Complying with the growing number of regulatory standards is an ongoing challenge for most organizations. The Health Insurance Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA) has been around for more than two decades. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the newest addition to the regulatory lineup with its nearly 100 articles. In between are other security standards from the credit card industry, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). There are now over 200 updates each day from 900 regulatory bodies.

How are you supposed to keep up and comply with the alphabet soup of regulations?

Help is on the way.

Learn How to Protect Your Organization from Rising Security Threats with Interlink’s Security Energize Workshop
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As if the security threat landscape wasn’t dangerous enough, the onset of COVID-19 has dramatically increased the number of cyber-attacks. News and updates on the spreading virus have more people clicking on links than ever before, and cyber-hackers and thieves are taking full advantage.

• Every country in the world has seen at least one COVID-19 themed attack
• Microsoft has observed 76 threat variants using COVID-19 themed lures
• Microsoft tracks thousands of email phishing campaigns that cover millions of malicious messages every week
• Of the millions of targeted messages Microsoft sees each day, roughly 60,000 include COVID-19 related malicious attachments or malicious URLs
• Those numbers represent less than two percent of the total volume of threats Microsoft actively tracks and protect against daily

Looking at new technologies and want to know if Microsoft technologies are a fit?

Learn how your organization can receive funding with no purchase obligation from Microsoft for workshops and assessments! We will be providing an overview of several of Microsoft’s funding programs.
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Microsoft Funding Available

Microsoft Cloud Incentive funding is now available for Microsoft's new fiscal year. These funds can be used to provide your team with educational workshops, proof of concept deployments, and cloud migrations or modernization. Microsoft has funding available and Interlink can help you get it! The best part is that these funds don’t require a purchase are available even if you just want to explore the technology.

Here are the following opportunities along with ways it would benefit your business:

For businesses who implement security measures, Ohio becomes the first state in the nation to implement a law that affords a data breach safe harbor - the Ohio Data Protection Act.

Not a week goes by without hearing about a new data breach. It’s becoming common knowledge that companies, both small and large, are facing the tough reality that it is no longer a matter of if, but really when a company will be affected by a data breach.

Over the years, lawmakers have struggled with constructing effective methods to strengthen the cybersecurity of organizations without mandating one-size-fits-all requirements, which makes it challenging. At the beginning of November, Senate Bill 220, also known as the Ohio Data Protection Act, was enacted into law in the state of Ohio—which represents the first law that accomplishes that goal.