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Kathleen Mitford

Kathleen Mitford

Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

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3 key cloud adoption trends in migrating and modernizing workloads 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Microsoft believes the best way to prepare for this uncertainty is for organizations to do more with less—less complexity and cost, with more agility, resilience, and innovation.

Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Gartner recently published its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) report. For the ninth consecutive year, Microsoft was named a Leader, and for the first time placed furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.

How Microsoft Azure helps drive agility and optimization for your business 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Welcome to Microsoft Ignite. I’m incredibly inspired by this global community and how you’ve navigated your organizations through significant changes over the past few years. In a world where business leaders are feeling the pressure to do more with less, organizations of all sizes and industries are increasingly embracing cloud technologies as the path toward digital and business resilience.

Published • 6 min read

Migrate and modernize with Azure to power innovation across the entire digital estate 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Cloud adoption increased significantly during COVID-19 and continues for many companies. However, an enormous migration and modernization opportunity remains as organizations continue their digital transformation. This is why we are focusing on three key areas of growth at Microsoft Inspire: innovation with new cloud-native experiences, modernization of app and data estates, and migration and modernization of infrastructure and mission-critical workloads.

Discover how you can innovate anywhere with Azure Arc 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Welcome to Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day—please join us for the digital event. Today, we’re sharing how Azure Arc extends Azure platform capabilities to datacenters, edge, and multicloud environments through an impactful, 90-minute lineup of keynotes, breakouts, and technical sessions available live and on demand.

Published • 5 min read

Code, test, and ship your next app quickly and securely with Microsoft developer tools 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Welcome to Microsoft Build, the event that’s all about celebrating the developer community! The work you do has the power to transform entire industries and keep critical businesses and services running through innovative solutions and applications. I couldn’t be more honored to champion this entire dev community as you create the future.

Microsoft Azure expands to new region in the China market 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

Since March 1, 2022, a new Azure region in North China will be unrestricted access by customers, which adds the fifth Azure region to the China market and doubles the capacity of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud portfolio in China.

Your hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy just got better with Azure 

By Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Marketing

During Microsoft Ignite this week, we’ll highlight the latest features and innovations in hybrid, multicloud, and edge computing. From end-to-end data capabilities and cloud-native applications to cross-functional collaboration, Microsoft cloud technologies help our customers deliver solutions and services faster to meet their own customers’ rapidly changing needs.