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Microsoft and CrowdStrike Announce the Falcon Platform Now Available on Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft and CrowdStrike Announce the Falcon Platform Now Available on Microsoft Marketplace
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nStrategic alliance lets customers buy Falcon with existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment funds\n\n\n AUSTIN, Texas & REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced an expansion of their strategic alliance that allows organizations of all sizes to purchase the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform on Microsoft Marketplace using their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.\n\n\nMarketplace streamlines procurement and billing, helping organizations accelerate deployment of Falcon’s unified, AI-native protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, AI, and data to stop breaches.\n\n\nWith this expanded access, customers can:\n\n\n\nAccelerate time-to-protection by simplifying procurement through Marketplace.\n\n\n\nOptimize committed cloud spend by applying CrowdStrike purchases toward Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.\n\n\n\nReduce operational overhead by consolidating purchasing and billing.\n\n\n\n“Security is the foundation for AI Transformation,” said Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business. “By enabling customers to apply their Azure Consumption Commitment in Microsoft Marketplace toward the Falcon platform, we are providing the financial flexibility they need to optimize cloud spend while adopting a rigorous security posture.”\n\n\n“Adversaries don’t wait for budget cycles, and neither should security teams,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “By enabling customers to use Azure Consumption Commitment for CrowdStrike, we remove procurement friction and maximize the impact of the cloud investment they already have to stop breaches with the Falcon platform. Through ongoing collaboration with Microsoft, our ecosystem is broadening to meet the market’s broad-based demand for Falcon.”\n\n\nWhat Industry Experts and Joint Customers Are Saying:\n\n\n“Cloud marketplaces are becoming a primary route to market for enterprise software, streamlining procurement while activating partner co-sell at scale,” said Jay McBain, Chief Analyst at Canalys. “By allowing Falcon to transact against Azure Consumption Commitments, Microsoft and CrowdStrike are aligning security purchases with cloud spend – accelerating deal velocity and simplifying the path from agreement to deployment.”\n\n\n“In today's agentic world, security mus...