
27Global Recaps the 2024 RGCA Forum
John Marney and Kelley Madsen sit down with Patrick Kinne to recap the Retail Gift Card Association’s annual forum in San Diego. Topics discussed include:
27Global is your trusted Microsoft Azure Solutions Partner.
In today’s digital world, fast and flexible wins the race. A move to the Azure cloud allows you to boost productivity, quickly scale, and decrease your costs—all while keeping you agile and resilient.
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner in Digital & App Innovation, 27Global demonstrates validated proficiency in guiding and empowering our clients’ transition to the Azure cloud. And with multiple advanced certifications – including Azure Solutions Architect, DevOps, Data, Networking, and Developer – our team of Microsoft-certified experts have validated experience utilizing Azure services to conceptualize, architect, and deliver effective cloud solutions for our Azure-based clients.
Whether you’re embarking on your cloud journey or aiming to enhance your current digital approach, our team of Azure experts is equipped with the necessary skills and experience. We are committed to empowering your business to harness the advantages of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency offered by the cloud.
Azure Well-Architected Review (WAF): structured evaluation across reliability, security, performance, cost, and operations
Azure Advisor + Optimization Engine: actionable right sizing, reservation, and efficiency recommendations
Azure Cost Management + FinOps Toolkit: budgets, forecasts, anomaly detection, and chargeback/showback reporting
Microsoft Entra ID Security Tools: Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Continuous Access Evaluation
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: secure score, threat detection, vulnerability scanning, and automated remediation
Azure Policy + Blueprints: enforce governance, tagging, compliance, and prevent drift
Azure Monitor + Sentinel (SIEM): centralized logging, monitoring, and intelligent security analytics
Azure DevOps Services and GitHub Enterprise: CI/CD pipelines, repos, work item tracking, and GitHub Advanced Security
Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions: YAML based automation for builds, tests, and deployments
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Container Apps: container orchestration, serverless containers, and autoscaling
Azure App Services: scalable hosting for web apps, APIs, and backend services
Azure Functions: event driven, serverless compute for lightweight workloads
Azure API Management: secure API publishing, monitoring, and lifecycle management
Azure Monitor and Application Insights: full stack observability, performance tracking, and telemetry
Microsoft Entra ID Integration: unified identity and access management across applications and services
Azure App Services: modern hosting for APIs and web applications with built in scaling and deployment slots
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): modernization of legacy apps into containerized microservices with orchestration and scaling
Azure API Management: central hub for publishing, securing, and monitoring APIs across hybrid and multi cloud environments
Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate: low code integration for workflows and system connectivity
Azure Service Bus and Event Grid: reliable messaging and event driven integration between distributed systems
Azure Functions: lightweight modernization of monolithic tasks into serverless event driven components
Azure Cosmos DB and SQL Hyperscale: modern cloud native databases supporting global distribution and elastic scale
Microsoft Fabric and Synapse Analytics: unified analytics platform to integrate data for modernization and intelligence
Microsoft Entra ID and Azure AD B2C: secure identity, access, and customer identity management across modernized applications
Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric: modern data warehousing, lakehouse, and analytics integration
Azure Data Explorer: high performance real time data ingestion and query engine
Azure Cosmos DB: globally distributed, elastic, multi model database for IoT and AI applications
Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central: device connectivity, management, and telemetry ingestion at scale
Azure Digital Twins: modeling and simulation of physical environments for IoT scenarios
Azure Stream Analytics: real time processing of events, telemetry, and IoT signals
Azure Machine Learning: full lifecycle model training, deployment, and MLOps
Azure Cognitive Services: prebuilt vision, speech, and language models for rapid integration
Azure OpenAI Service and AI Foundry: generative AI, copilots, and custom agent development on Azure
Azure Applied AI Services: specialized solutions such as Document Intelligence, Personalizer, and Translator
Azure Migrate: centralized hub for discovery, assessment, and migration of servers, databases, and applications
Azure Database Migration Service (DMS): seamless migration of SQL Server, Oracle, and open source databases into Azure SQL and Cosmos DB
Azure Storage Migration Tools: moving file shares, unstructured data, and large datasets into Azure Blob or Azure Files
Azure VMware Solution (AVS): lift and shift VMware workloads directly into Azure with minimal refactoring
Azure Arc: extend Azure management and governance across hybrid and multi cloud workloads during and after migration
Azure Site Recovery: workload replication, failover, and disaster recovery during datacenter to cloud migrations
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD): modernization of desktop and app environments in the cloud
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF): structured guidance for planning, readiness, landing zones, and governance during migrations
Azure Cost Management: forecasting and cost planning during migration to optimize resource sizing and reservations
24×7 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): global monitoring, incident response, and proactive trend analysis using Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel
Infrastructure and Platform Automation: fully automated deployments with Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions, coupled with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Automated Resiliency and Recovery: disaster recovery orchestration via Azure Site Recovery, periodic failover testing, backup validation, and restore drills
Performance Monitoring and Observability: APM via Application Insights, end-to-end telemetry with Azure Monitor, and real-time alerting / dashboards
Cost and Capacity Monitoring: ongoing resource utilization tracking and autoscaling configurations using Azure Advisor and Azure Monitor autoscale
Continuous Security & Policy Enforcement: Microsoft Defender for Cloud for threat detection, Azure Policy for compliance enforcement, and Microsoft Entra ID governance
Runbooks and Incident Playbooks: automated remediation workflows via Azure Automation and Logic Apps, combined with operational runbooks and playbooks for human escalation
Operational Reporting and Health Reviews: periodic health and SLA reviews, trend reports from Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, vulnerability scanning summaries, and continuous improvement roadmaps
Change and Release Governance: release management with approval gates (via Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions environments), blue-green or canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms
With the business acumen to truly understand your vision, a dedicated full-team approach, and a DevOps mindset, 27Global brings an unrivaled level of engineering excellence that always prioritizes quality, security, and automation.
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner in Digital & App Innovation, 27Global has proven expertise in leveraging the latest Azure technologies and tools to engineer efficient, scalable SaaS solutions that drive innovation.
So, whether you’re looking to build a net-new application or revamp an existing one to fully embrace every benefit of the cloud, 27Global is here to help turn your cloud-native dreams into reality and propel your business forward. Ready to get started?
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Running legacy or on-premise data stores? Self-managing in the cloud? You still have to take care of database provisioning, patching, configuration, or backups. Instead, leverage Microsoft’s unmatched experience, reliability, and security for your most important applications.
Actionable intelligence is only as good as the supporting underlying data. Ensure your data platform is centralized, organized, accessible, reliable, and timely by combining 27Global’s data expertise with the right Microsoft data services and methodologies.
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John Marney and Kelley Madsen sit down with Patrick Kinne to recap the Retail Gift Card Association’s annual forum in San Diego. Topics discussed include:
Do you know what 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies have in common? They all trust their business with Microsoft Azure. The cloud platform helps to bring solutions to life using hybrid software and is used to build, deploy and manage applications and services through a global network.
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