{"id":28159,"date":"2019-08-13T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=28159"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:44:27","slug":"blue-turtle-becomes-a-microsoft-cloud-platform-gold-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/08\/13\/blue-turtle-becomes-a-microsoft-cloud-platform-gold-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Turtle becomes a Microsoft Cloud Platform Gold Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blue Turtle\nTechnologies has been appointed as Microsoft Gold Partner for the Cloud\ncompetency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur appointment\nas a Microsoft Gold Partner for the Cloud competency is as a result of our\ninvestment in Azure competencies and the great support we have received from\nthe Microsoft team in South Africa,\u201d said Avash Maharaj, Cloud Business Manager\nat Blue Turtle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, we\nare delivering a range of innovative solutions for cloud that deliver real\nvalue to customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mervyn Yan,\nProduct Manager at Blue Turtle, added: \u201cBuilding our team, and developing our\nMicrosoft Cloud skills, has enabled us to offer clients access to a range of\nservices and all the advantages that go along with working with a Microsoft\nGold Partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a\nrecognition of our capability to deliver, develop and deploy on Microsoft\u2019s\nproven cloud platform, delivering both innovative software and \u2018as-a-service\u2019\nofferings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through its\nalignment with Microsoft best practice, Blue Turtle is helping businesses with\ntheir migration to Microsoft Azure, ensuring that the right workloads are moved\nto cloud, where it makes financial and business sense. As part of its Azure\nservices the company already assists clients with discovery, assessment,\nmigration, optimisation, operation and security for Azure.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cloud\ndecision is not simple, and the actual move to it and adoption of it by\nbusiness comes with potential challenges,\u201d added Yan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA partner\nneeds to understand how to identify the right workloads, get customers into the\ncloud efficiently and operating in the cloud without cost consumption running\nout of control. The public cloud needs to be a feasible cost decision and\nincorrect migration and sizing can damage the bottom line. What we do as Blue\nTurtle is get you into the cloud and keep you in the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Turtle Technologies has been appointed as Microsoft Gold Partner for the Cloud competency. \u201cOur appointment as a Microsoft Gold Partner for the Cloud competency is as a result of our investment in Azure competencies and the great support we have received from the Microsoft team in South Africa,\u201d said Avash Maharaj, Cloud Business Manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,275,19,9059,13,262],"tags":[10607,620,10605,22,10608,10606,453],"class_list":["post-28159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-regional-news","category-south-africa","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-avesh-maharaj","tag-azure","tag-blue-turtle-technologies","tag-cloud","tag-merytn-yan","tag-microsoft-gold-partner","tag-south-africa"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28281,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159\/revisions\/28281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}