Derek Heckemeyer, Solution Specialist for Microsoft's enterprise data & AI solution area, joins us on the podcast today to share his thoughts on on how the landscape of how data is stored and utilized in big business, is fundamentally changing. Derek H. makes comments about the critical nature of how Microsoft's cloud, Azure, is allowing businesses to digitally transform, and why many customers are moving to an intelligent cloud intelligent edge mindset.  

-Some notable items covered in the conversation also include:  

-The new Microsoft, and notable changes in the business of big tech 

-Why customers should and are moving their data into the cloud 

-On premises data bases, and the cultural/technical shift into the Azure cloud 

-Scaling across a data infrastructure with AI driven workloads that accelerate the trajectory of multi-domain customer success 

-Facilitating an organization's IT and line of business to work together for a consolidated digital strategy  

You can contact or follow Derek H. on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekheckemeyer/ 

Please feel free to follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Medium, or at my website: www.derekwesleyrussell.com  

Thank you for listening! 

Shoutouts: 

*Podcast Photo by Markus Spiske freeforcommercialuse.net from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-water-fountain-225769/ 

*Intro music (beginning only): Orion, by Pedro Santiago - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pedro_Santiago/Orion/ 

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