The moves to secure Azure cloud services range from providing greater visibility into third parties with access to an organization's applications and data to improving risk assessment with a Secure Score API.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare includes tools that allow for digital triage, telemedicine and coordination of care using internet-based services, chat and conferencing apps.
Having Red Hat on board is important, because the open source company and its parent IBM are two of the largest advocates of the hybrid cloud approach.
Amazon, Google and Microsoft—the top public cloud providers—are all benefiting from organizations of all sizes looking to the cloud for business continuity during the global pandemic.
Pandemic-related supply chain disruption in China meant the company couldn't expand data centers as much as planned, leading to some Azure and Office capacity shortages.