A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
Nvidia’s recent reshaping of its cloud strategy — pivoting DGX Cloud toward a partner-driven marketplace called DGX Cloud Lepton while repurposing portions of its owned fleet for internal R&D — has set off a debate: did that move effectively hand a competitive edge to hyperscalers (Amazon Web...
Microsoft’s claim that Arm-based Windows PCs now see most user minutes spent inside natively compiled apps marks a pivotal moment for the platform — a transition from compatibility-first survival to native-first performance and efficiency. Microsoft executives point to a figure that will shape...
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Oracle’s latest quarter rewrote expectations: a $455 billion remaining‑performance‑obligations backlog, an audacious five‑year revenue roadmap for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that culminates at $144 billion by fiscal 2030, and a wave of multibillion‑dollar customer commitments sent the...
Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service has introduced a new, opinionated deployment mode — AKS Automatic — designed to dramatically reduce the operational overhead long associated with running Kubernetes at scale. The offering promises an “easy mode” for production-ready clusters with preselected...
Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...
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Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. (investor.oracle.com)
Background
For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting...
Azure has made a decisive push to lower the operational friction of Kubernetes with the general availability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic — an opinionated, fully managed mode of AKS that ships production-ready clusters with preselected networking, security, scaling, and...
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Oracle’s recent AI wins are not just marketing copy — they’re reshaping how the company pitches cloud to enterprise buyers and investors, and they demand a sober re-evaluation of where Oracle sits in the cloud pecking order against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud...
Oracle’s sudden leap from an enterprise-software stalwart to a potential top-tier cloud infrastructure contender is the defining business story of the fall — and it starts with an eye-popping backlog that reshapes the competitive map for AI-era data centers. (oracle.com)
Background
The core idea...
Oracle’s latest earnings didn’t just move markets — they rewrote the rules for how a decades‑old enterprise software vendor can pivot into the center of the AI cloud arms race. (investor.oracle.com)
Background / Overview
In fiscal Q1 2026 (quarter ended Aug. 31, 2025) Oracle reported a set of...
Oracle’s first‑quarter disclosure and subsequent analyst reporting have transformed what had been a cautious infrastructure pivot into a full‑blown, capital‑intensive sprint toward AI dominance — but the numbers that dazzled Wall Street come with real execution and counterparty risks that...
Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of leaning hard on OpenAI, Redmond is reportedly adding Anthropic’s Claude family to the mix and routing certain Copilot workloads to the company’s Sonnet models — a pragmatic pivot toward multi‑vendor, workload‑specific...
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Analyst chatter turned into headlines on September 4, 2025, when a short AInvest dispatch reported upgrades to Microsoft (MSFT) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) and a downgrade for NIO (NIO), framing the moves as part of a broader rotation into AI, cloud computing, and data‑center exposure — a...
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Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence business is no longer an experimental bet — it is the engine powering the company’s reacceleration, but sustaining that advantage will demand flawless execution across infrastructure, monetization and geopolitics.
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Alibaba reported that its Cloud...
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Amazon’s cloud story entered a new chapter this quarter: AWS reported roughly $30.8–$30.9 billion in revenue for Q2 2025 while launching a major, renewable‑powered infrastructure region in New Zealand—an investment AWS says will strengthen APAC presence, lower latency for local customers, and...
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Microsoft’s push to fold advanced generative AI into Azure and Microsoft 365 is no longer an experimental add‑on — it’s a full‑scale platform strategy that reshapes product roadmaps, enterprise buying decisions, and how companies monetize intelligence across workflows.
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Microsoft first...
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Microsoft has pushed the first public Release Candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 into preview with two headline changes that matter to every Windows-centric IT team experimenting with Linux-first development: official Ubuntu 24.04 support for dev/test scenarios and TLS 1.3 enabled by default...
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Enterprises across India are accelerating PC refresh cycles, driven by a near-term deadline and a new generation of machines built for on-device AI: demand for business laptops is surging as organizations prepare for the end of Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 and push to acquire AI-ready...
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Microsoft’s latest quarterly report confirms what investors and enterprise customers have been sensing for months: cloud and AI are not just growth drivers — they are the engine reshaping Microsoft’s business and the broader enterprise landscape. In the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025...