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Learn about the Azure Traffic Manager DNS load balancer. Improve app performance with automatic DNS traffic management services across datacenters.

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Azure Content Delivery Network | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/cdn/

Learn about Azure Content Delivery Network, a secure and reliable global content delivery and acceleration solution.

2.
Pricing - DNS | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/pricing/details/dns/

View pricing details for Azure DNS. Host your domain in Azure for outstanding performance and availability.

3.
Load Balancer - Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/elasticloadbalancing/

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs).

5.
Azure Virtual Network – Virtual Private Cloud | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-network/

Learn about Azure Virtual Network. Create your own private network in the cloud. View features and build a hybrid IT infrastructure you can control.

7.
DNS Service - Amazon Route 53 - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/route53/

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service. Enables to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency.

8.
Azure Monitor - Modern Observability Tools | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/monitor/

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

9.
Cloud Services - Deploy Cloud Apps & APIs | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/cloud-services/

Learn about Azure Cloud Services, which helps you deploy and scale powerful cloud applications and APIs. Supports Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and more.

10.
Azure ExpressRoute - Private Cloud Connections | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/expressroute/

Enjoy fast, private cloud connections—including MPLS VPN connections—between Azure and on-premises datacenters with Azure ExpressRoute.

12.
App Service — Build and Host Web Apps | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/app-service/

Migrate and build apps. Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for creating web applications. The app service offers a range of app development plans and services.

13.
Alibaba Cloud DNS_Intelligent DNS Management_Website Domain Name Management-Alibaba Cloud
https://www.alibabaclou
.com/en/product/dns/

Alibaba Cloud DNS is a secure, stable, and intelligent DNS service. It helps enterprises and developers convert human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses and routes user requests to required website or application servers.

14.
API Management – Manage APIs | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/api-management/

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

15.
Azure DDoS Protection and Mitigation Services | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/ddos-protection/

Defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on your applications and network with integrated DDoS protection and mitigation services from Azure.

16.
Azure Automation – Cloud Automation Service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/automation/

Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell.

17.
Azure Arc – Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management and Solution
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/azure-arc/

Use Azure Arc solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud management to run Azure services anywhere. Accelerate innovation with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

18.
App Service - Web App for Containers | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/app-service/containers/

Bring your own containers and deploy to App Service as a web app running on Linux in seconds using Web App for Containers feature of Azure App Service.

19.
Application load balancing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
https://blogs.oracl
.com/developers/post/application-load-balancing-on-oracle-cloud-infrastructure/

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing service distributes traffic from one entry point to multiple servers reachable from your virtual cloud network (VCN). The service provides a load balancer with your choice of a public or private IP address, and provisioned bandwidth. A load balancer improves resource use, facilitates scaling, and helps to ensure high availability. You can configure multiple load balancing policies and application-specific health checks to ensure that the load bala...

20.
Azure Files - Managed File Shares and Storage | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/storage/files/

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

21.
Notification Hubs - Mobile push notifications | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/notification-hubs/

Learn about Azure Notification Hubs. Send push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle from any backend. Easier mobile app development.

22.
Microsoft Entra Domain Services (Azure AD DS) | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/microsoft-entra-ds/

Manage, deploy, and patch your domain controllers in the cloud with Microsoft Entra Domain Services (formerly Azure Active Directory Domain Services).

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Azure Media Services | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/media-services/

Reach wider audiences on the devices they use with cloud video streaming, encoding, and indexing services from Azure Media Services.

24.
VPN Gateway - Virtual Networks | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/vpn-gateway/

Connect your infrastructure to the cloud with Azure VPN Gateway. Connect your on-premises networks to Azure from anywhere with Site-to-Site VPNs.

25.
Azure Stack | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/azure-stack/

Learn how Azure Stack brings the agility of cloud computing to your on-premises environment.

26.
Cloud Computing Services | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

27.
Intelligent application traffic management | F5
https://www.f
.com/products/big-ip-services/local-traffic-manager/

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.

28.
Azure Service Bus—Cloud Messaging Service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/service-bus/

Keep connected with Azure Service Bus, a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds.

29.
Network Acceleration Service - AWS Global Accelerator - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/global-accelerator/

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that simplifies traffic management and improves performance by up to 60%.

30.
BloxOne DDI: Cloud Managed DNS, DHCP & IPAM | Infoblox
https://www.infoblo
.com/products/bloxone-ddi/

Eliminate the management complexity of DNS, DHCP & IPAM, while improving the performance of Office 365 and other SaaS applications. Learn how with BloxOne DDI.

31.
Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/get-started/azure-portal/resource-manager/

Simplify how you manage your app resources with Azure Resource Manager. Deploy resources together, categorize them for easy billing, and enable access control.

32.
IoT Hub | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/iot-hub/

Manage billions of IoT devices with Azure IoT Hub, a cloud platform that lets you easily connect, monitor, provision, and configure IoT devices.

33.
Microsoft Azure Portal | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/get-started/azure-portal/

Build, manage, and monitor all your apps in Microsoft Azure Portal. A single, unified hub built for you, your team, and your projects.

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Microsoft Cost Management | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/cost-management/

Reduce costs using cost optimization and analysis through Microsoft Cost Management. Increase transparency, accuracy, and efficiency in cost management.

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Virtual Machines (VMs) for Linux and Windows | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/

Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server.

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Azure Database Migration Service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/database-migration/

For assessment and data migration software, choose Azure Database Migration Service for moving on-premises SQL Server and Oracle databases to the cloud.

37.
Event Hubs—Real-Time Data Ingestion | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/event-hubs/

Learn about Azure Event Hubs, a managed service that can ingest and process massive data streams from websites, apps, or devices.

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Managed Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service/

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

39.
Batch - Compute job scheduling service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/batch/

Learn about Azure Batch, a Microsoft cloud computing service for running large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs.

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Best DNS Servers - Uptime & Performance | Constellix
https://constelli
.com/

Best Authoritative Managed DNS Provider- Premium enterprise DNS management and network monitoring service. Advanced traffic routing + DDoS protection. Free Trial.

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Overview of Azure Policy - Azure Policy | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsof
.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/overview/

Azure Policy is a service in Azure, that you use to create, assign and, manage policy definitions in your Azure environment.

42.
Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-machine-scale-sets/

Make autoscaling your VMs easier with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Run thousands of virtual machines in minutes based on customizable metrics.

43.
Content Delivery Network - Amazon CloudFront - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/cloudfront/

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

45.
Virtual WAN | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-wan/

Connect business offices, retail locations, and sites securely with Virtual WAN, a unified wide-area network portal powered by Azure and the Microsoft global network.

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Azure Red Hat OpenShift – Kubernetes PaaS | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/openshift/

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

47.
BIG-IP DNS | F5
https://www.f
.com/products/big-ip-services/big-ip-dns/

F5 DNS hyperscales and secures your infrastructure during high query volumes and DDoS attacks, making sure apps are highly available across any environment.

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Load Balancer Automation Platform for F5, Nginx | ADC+
https://www.appview
.com/products/adc/

ADC- Load Balancer automation platform. Empowering network and app teams with self-service capabilities to automate, orchestrate, and manage application delivery services. The result? Faster time to market and higher levels of availability for your services

49.
Azure Disk Storage – Block Storage | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/storage/disks/

Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

50.
Analysis Services | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/analysis-services/

Built on the proven analytical engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade data modeling in the cloud.

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Azure NetApp Files | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/netapp/

Run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications in the cloud—without any code change.

52.
Azure confidential computing | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsof
.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/

Learn about how Azure confidential computing protects data in use and learn ways to build confidential workloads in the cloud.

53.
Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/storage/blobs/

Azure Blob storage provides scalable, cost-efficient object storage in the cloud. Store and access unstructured data for your most demanding workloads.

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IoT Edge | Cloud Intelligence | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/iot-edge/

Connect cloud intelligence to your edge devices with Azure IoT Edge, a comprehensive service that deploys artificial intelligence and custom logic to IoT devices.

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Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/devops/pipelines/

Get 10 free parallel jobs for cloud-based CI/CD pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Automate builds and easily deploy to any cloud with Azure Pipelines.

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Azure Firewall – Cloud Network Security Solutions | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/azure-firewall/

Protect, monitor, and report on your Azure Virtual Network resources using Azure Firewall, a cloud-native network security and analytics solution.

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Azure IoT solution accelerators | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/updates/azure-iot-solution-accelerators/

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

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Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/container-instances/

Run application containers in the cloud with a single command. Get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs with per-second billing.

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Developer Tools | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/category/developer-tools/

Build, debug, deploy, and manage cloud applications—using any platform or language—with Azure development tools, including Visual Studio.

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Azure Advisor – Azure Best Practices | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/advisor/

Azure Advisor is a recommendation service that analyzes your configurations and usage, then helps you follow Azure best practices to optimize your deployments.

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Azure Service Fabric documentation | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsof
.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.

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Microservice Mesh - AWS App Mesh - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/app-mesh/

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

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Managed DNS, Secondary DNS, DNS Failover, GEO DNS and API
https://www.cloudfloordn
.com/

Managed DNS, Secondary DNS, DNS Failover, GEO DNS, Domain Registration, Domain management, DNS Provider, Anycast Network, Cloud DNS, DNSSEC

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Azure SQL Database – Managed Cloud Database Service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database/

Build apps faster and scale automatically on Azure SQL Database, the intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database.

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Free DNS Hosting. Fast and Resilient | Gcore
https://gcor
.com/dns/

Accelerate your web services with a global DNS platform that supports failover, GeoDNS and zero-latency updates

68.
Azure Data Factory - Data Integration Service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/data-factory/

Discover Azure Data Factory, the easiest cloud-based hybrid data integration service and solution at an enterprise scale. Build data factories without the need to code.

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Azure Lab Services – Cloud Virtual Machine Labs | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/lab-services/

Azure Lab Services provides secure, sharable virtual labs in the cloud with on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines.

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Azure Migrate - Cloud Migration Tool | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/azure-migrate/

Use the Azure Migrate hub of cloud migration tools and services to assess your current workloads and plan and implement your migration to Azure.

72.
Load Balancer For Always-On Application Experience - Kemp
https://kemptechnologie
.com/

Kemp is transforming application delivery and security, providing cloud-native, virtual and hardware-based load balancers for full resilience and total flexibility.

73.
Azure Archive Storage – Data Management | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/storage/

Azure Archive Storage provides a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage and data management for rarely accessed data.

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Queue Storage | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/storage/queues/

Get started today with Azure Premium Storage for low latency and high throughput storage suitable for I/O intensive applications.

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SignalR Service – Real time web | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/signalr-service/

With Azure SignalR Service, adding real-time communications to your web application is as simple as provisioning a service.

77.
Azure API Apps – API service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/app-service/api/

Azure API Apps give you the tools to develop, host, secure, and share REST APIs in your organization or with the world.

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Azure Cloud Shell – Browser-Based Command Line | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/get-started/azure-portal/cloud-shell/

A browser-based shell experience in the cloud that’s maintained by Microsoft to manage Azure resources with popular command-line tools and programming languages

79.
IBM NS1 Connect
https://www.ib
.com/products/ns1-connect/

IBM® NS1 Connect manages authoritative DNS and traffic steering to boost performance and network resilience, keeping your end-users' applications reliably connected.

81.
Azure Cache for Redis Documentation - Azure Cache for Redis | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsof
.com/en-us/azure/azure-cache-for-redis/

Learn how to use Azure Cache for Redis, a secure data cache and messaging broker that gives applications fast access to data. Tutorials, API references, and more.

82.
Backup and Disaster Recovery | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/solutions/backup-and-disaster-recovery/

Learn how Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery integrate to provide an end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solution with unlimited scale.

83.
Network Gateway - AWS Transit Gateway - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/transit-gateway/

AWS Transit Gateway connects virtual private cloud and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a highly scalable cloud router so you can easily add to your network.

84.
Azure Container Registry | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/container-registry/

Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

85.
Traefik Mesh, the Simplest Service Mesh | Traefik Labs
https://traefi
.io/traefik-mesh/

Traefik Mesh is an open source service mesh, easy to configure that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster.

86.
Azure Sphere – IoT Device Security Platform | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/azure-sphere/

Protect your data with Azure Sphere, a turnkey IoT device security and IoT platform solution for intelligent edge devices and microcontrollers.

87.
StorSimple documentation | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsof
.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/

Learn how to use Azure StorSimple, an integrated storage solution that manages storage tasks between on-premises devices and Azure cloud storage.

88.
Azure Functions – Serverless Functions in Computing | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/functions/

Create event-driven, scalable serverless applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, or PowerShell with the Azure Functions app— a serverless computing service.

89.
Mobile Apps | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/solutions/mobile/

Rely on mobile backend as a service (mbaas) from Azure to reduce time to market with cloud services, tools, and DevOps.

90.
Domain Name System (DNS) | Oracle
https://www.oracl
.com/cloud/networking/dns/

Discover OCI DNS, a cloud native service for global traffic balancing, steering, and secure DNS zones.

91.
Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) - Overview | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsof
.com/en-us/cli/azure/

Learn how to get started with the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) to create and manage Azure resources — explore guides, tutorials, samples, articles, and more.

92.
Network Connect: Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Transit | F5
https://www.f
.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/network-connect/

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is a SaaS-based platform that enables seamless and secure connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Edge – BlueCat Networks
https://bluecatnetwork
.com/products/edge/

Bring additional IP forwarding, discovery, resolution, and security capabilities to your DDI infrastructure and reduce multicloud complexity.

94.
Managed Container Apps Service - AWS App Runner - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/apprunner/

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

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Autonomous Cloud Management Platform | AI-Powered Cloud Cost Optimization, Performance Tuning and Availability Improvement
https://www.seda
.io/

Optimize your cloud cost, performance and availability while saving time with AI. Use Sedai to optimize compute, storage and data including Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EC2, Azure VMs, AWS S3, AWS EBS, Google Dataflow and more. Sedai's Autonomous Cloud Management Platform works across AWS, Azure, GCP and On-Premises and can run in three modes: Datapilot, Copilot and Autopilot.

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Key Vault | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/key-vault/

Safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services with Microsoft Azure Key Vault. Try it now.

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IT infrastructure management platforms — ISPsystem
https://www.ispsyste
.com/vmmanager/

IT infrastructure management platforms: management of physical equipment and virtual infrastructure, automation of accounting and issuance of IT resources

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Engineering Document Control , Dynamics 365, M365, SharePoint, Azure Partner in Malaysia - Cost Effective EDCS / EDMS, Dynamics 365 and SharePoint Solution
https://www.agti
.com/

Unlock the full potential of Microsoft's robust technology stack. From cloud solutions (Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365) to mobile and web development, we specialize in harnessing the power of Microsoft platforms for seamless, innovative solutions. Elevate your business with our cutting-edge expertise.

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Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names | ClouDNS
https://www.cloudn
.net/

ClouDNS provides Free DNS, Cloud DNS, Managed DNS, GeoDNS and DDoS Protected DNS hosting with included web redirects, mail forwards and Round-Robin load balancing. Instant updates in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.