What's Azure Virtual Desktop?

A few years ago, Microsoft launched Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). It's a cloud service that lets you virtualize desktops and applications. But it's different from the others. Azure Virtual Desktop is a solution built directly on top of Microsoft Azure, whereas traditional solutions only support the...

Arxus launches Flex Income Plan (FIP): sustainability and flexibility combined

The mobility budget was created two years ago, but today it still remains uncharted territory for many. Not for us at Arxus though! In terms of electric cars, we are already the front runner within the Cronos Group: 85% of our employees already drive full electric. But it is about more than just...

Traditional PBX or telephony in the cloud?

Telephony in the cloud is very attractive today for both larger and smaller companies. The simple installation, the cost and the scalability of cloud telephony make companies think twice about their traditional telephone exchange. But how big are the differences? The traditional telephone exchange...

Cloud Custodian Services: What happens in the plan phase?

At Arxus, we invest heavily in the new approach of Managed Cloud Services, which we call Cloud Custodian Services. In the blog post “Managed Cloud Services: what does the future look like?" you can read more about that. Our Cloud Custodian Services are divided into three major steps: plan, ready...

Why is the Cloud Solution Provider Program interesting for my business

As a business today, there is no escape from the public cloud. It is a given these days that, to be competitive, your business needs to be in the cloud in some form or the other. But public cloud is no picnic! All major public cloud providers offer you a wealth of services and solutions for an even...

Managed Cloud Services: what's the future like and what should you know?

If you want to be competitive as a company nowadays, you have to ensure that all your processes run optimally. Of course, that's where IT comes into play. And tif we're talking about IT, you can no longer ignore the (public) cloud. All major public cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google...

Launching ISVs to the cloud

Many decision makers at business of all sorts have had these prophetic slogans tossed at their heads for a long time now. More than any other business, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) specifically have been asking themselves how, in this age of software, to get their tools and IP to their...

All you need to know about Azure Sentinel (cloud security)

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's cloud-native Security Information Event Management (SIEM) solution. This solution is Microsoft's answer to the question to make security in Azure more scalable and easier to manage. But what do you need to know about Azure Sentinel? In this blog post we provide answers...

What is Azure Lighthouse and what advantages does it offer?

At Microsoft Inspire 2019 Microsoft introduced Azure Lighthouse, a service that allows managed cloud service providers such as Arxus to manage cloud environments of multiple customers more efficiently. Even when you, as a customer, will not use Azure Lighthouse directly, you will still benefit from...

Microsoft Insire 2019: our key takeaways

Microsoft Inspire 2019 is just behind us. Microsoft took four days in Las Vegas to inform and inspire more than 15,000 partners from around the world (the trade show is not called Inspire for nothing) about the strategic direction it is taking. A mountain of information about strategy, products,...