Where to Start with Cloudflare for Japan Enterprise — Entry Patterns from JCB, JAL, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, and the Post-ISMAP Landscape

Cloudflare's Japan enterprise case studies (JAL, JCB, DeNA, Sansan, Money Forward, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Konoike, Lion, GMO, ZIPAIR, BASE) point to four practical entry patterns. This post synthesizes them, covers what changed after Cloudflare's ISMAP registration, and surfaces the adoption risks worth pricing in.

How to Create a Microsoft Azure Account and Initial Setup

Preliminary steps for adopting Microsoft Azure at a company — from Microsoft account creation and MFA to the Azure account itself.

How Per-Machine Windows Apps Silently Auto-Update — Three Patterns Learned from Chrome, Slack, and VS Code

Per-user auto-update is straightforward. The moment you try silent auto-update on a per-machine install, without a UAC prompt for a standard user, the problem becomes hard. This post reads across how Chrome, Slack, VS Code, Docker Desktop, and others actually solve it, and reduces those implementations to three patterns: an Omaha-style SYSTEM service, MSIX platform delegation, and MDM redistribution.