Last week many great technical guides were released on the MS Download Center.  They describe the business benefits of new technology and technical steps to implement.   Below are links with description and download for each (ZIP/PDF/PPT/DOC).

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Guides

1. Hybrid IaaS technical guides – These documents provide a technical overview of Hybrid Infrastructure as a Service solutions.
2. Analytics technical guides – This zipped folder provides technical guidance for analytics on Azure.
3. Application dev/test business documentation – This zipped folder contains documents that provide an overview of application dev/test offerings for partners.
4. IoT technical documentation – This document provides technical guidance on deploying cloud services for IoT.
5. Power BI technical guides – This zipped folder provides technical guidance for deploying Power BI, creating dashboards, and other technical details of managed services.
6. Application dev/test technical guides – These documents provide a technical overview of application development and testing.
7. SQL Backup to Azure GTM materials – This zipped folder contains campaigns, sample service offers, and templates for SQL backup to Azure.
8. Analytics business documentation – This zipped folder includes an overview of Analytics on Azure, including the Analytics vision and data platform scenarios.
9. Azure SQL DB technical documentation – This zipped folder contains best practices and deployment documentation for Azure SQL database.
10. SQL in Azure VMs technical documentation – This zipped folder contains best practices and deployment documentation for SQL running in Azure VMs.
11. Backup and Disaster Recovery business documentation – This zipped folder contains documents that provides an overview of backup and disaster recovery offerings for partners.
12. Getting started on CSP for Azure – This FAQ style document is a “Getting Started guide” for Microsoft Azure services in the CSP program.
13. SQL Backup to Azure business documentation – This presentation provides guidance on SQL Backup to Azure – business discussions.
14. SQL Backup to Azure technical documentation – Technical deployment kit with deployment guidance of SQL backup to Azure.
15. Azure SQL DB business documentation – This zipped folder contains presentations that provide guidance on Azure SQL database – business discussions.
16. DevOps on Azure business documentation – This zipped folder provides an overview of DevOps on Azure.
17. Overview of CSP in Azure – This presentation provides an overview of the Azure in CSP program.
18. Disaster Recovery for SQL technical documentation – This zipped folder contains technical documentation for disaster recovery for SQL, along with a SQL 2014 hybrid kit.
19. Disaster Recovery for SQL business documentation – This zipped folder contains presentations that provide guidance on disaster recovery for SQL – business discussions.
20. Power BI business documentation – This presentation provides guidance on incorporating Power BI into your managed services practice through CSP.
21. SQL in Azure VMs business documentation – This zipped folder contains presentations that provide guidance on SQL in Azure VMs – business discussions.
22. How partners can make money with Azure IaaS – This presentation provides an overview of how partners can make money with Azure IaaS.

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