Azure Partner Roundup: Cardiovascular screening; Managed services; Azure AD

Volpara offers mammogram and cardiovascular screening with Azure, ePlus announces generally available Azure managed services, and SafeGuard Cyber offers Azure AD and Okta capabilities.

Volpara offers mammogram and cardiovascular screening with Azure

Volpara Health Technologies, a Seattle-based healthcare technology company, is in a research and development partnership with Microsoft to use Azure for breast arterial calcifications screening. Heart disease is the leading killer of women and arterial calcifications are associated with heart disease. Building on a recent Volpara patent, the company will use Azure Machine Learning in an effort to boost its data processing.

"Early detection of heart disease can have lifesaving implications. With early knowledge, patients can work with their physician to stop or slow progression. Integrating Azure Machine Learning as a service with Volpara's solution allows providers to connect data and look for meaningful signals through predictive analytics,” stated Tom McGuinness, corporate vice president, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences, Microsoft.

ePlus announces generally available Azure managed services

ePlus, a Virginia-based technology company announced the general availability of ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Azure. The offering is intended to simplify the management of Azure deployments with security and governance, FinOps, and configurations for automated deployment.

"ePlus Cloud Managed Services are designed to alleviate many of the challenges we see our customers face when it comes to managing complex public cloud environments and workloads. We help ease the transition to cloud by addressing the most common roadblocks—skillsets, cost management, and security—freeing time spent managing their Azure foundation so our customers can focus on driving innovation by optimizing and modernizing applications,” stated Justin Mescher, vice president of cloud and data center solutions at ePlus.

SafeGuard Cyber offers Azure AD and Okta capabilities

SafeGuard Cyber, a security and compliance provider for email based-threats announced automated responses and multi-channel user onboarding based on Azure AD and Okta integrations. The new integrations expand multi-channel detection to provide a more context-aware and integrated response, according to the company.

The offering takes advantage of SafeGuard’s existing Natural Language Understanding SaaS capabilities.

"Many of our enterprise customers have made significant investments in Azure AD or Okta to manage identities across their organizations, and our new capabilities allow them to streamline operations and maximize ROI for their security and overall operations,” stated Chris Lehman, CEO of SafeGuard Cyber.

"Our integrations with Okta and Azure AD enable organizations moving towards a cloud or hybrid workplace to simplify identity-based responses to communication-based threats, while enriching authentication to include context and intent of interactions,” added Rusty Carter, chief product officer at SafeGuard Cyber, in a statement.