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New to the cloud? Just beginning to learn about Azure? These whitepapers, analyst reports, and on-demand webinars will help you learn the basics.
Recorded webinars
White papers
Quick reads on key cloud topics such as cloud security, hybrid clouds, and the economic benefits of cloud adoption.
Featured whitepaper
Maybe you can already recite the sales pitch for cloud computing in your sleep—how it's faster, more flexible, and economical than amassing your own servers on site. But, as Joe Weinman argues in "Rethinking the Benefits of Cloud," that's just scratching the surface. In this exclusive white paper, Weinman, author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, explores some of the overlooked—and more nuanced—business benefits of moving workloads to the cloud, such as faster innovation, global expansion, and customer satisfaction.
Additional whitepapers
Analysts reports
Premium analyst content made available to you for free.
- The Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016
- Get the best public cloud for your enterprise development
- The Business Value and TCO Advantage of Apache Hadoop in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure HDInsight
- Forrester Research report: Learn how open source can transform your business
- Gartner's Magic Quadrant for IaaS
- Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services
- Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service
eBooks
Dive deeper with full-fledged texts on important cloud and Azure topics.
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