ai workloads

Simform’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) designation is a clear signal that the company is doubling down on engineering-led Azure operations—and that enterprises looking for a partner to run mission‑critical, AI‑ready Azure estates now...

Reltio’s recent Microsoft Azure certification is more than a marketing feather in its cap — it’s a practical acceleration point for enterprises looking to feed high‑quality, governed data into AI and analytics workloads on Azure, and it changes the procurement and deployment calculus for data...

Microsoft’s cloud footprint in the Kingdom has moved from blueprint to calendar: the company has confirmed that customers will be able to run cloud workloads from its Microsoft Azure Saudi Arabia East datacenter region beginning in Q4 2026, a development Microsoft and local partners say will...

Microsoft’s recent earnings and partner disclosures have done something few quarterly reports manage: they turned a strategic narrative about cloud computing into an unmistakable, data-driven spotlight on how hyperscale clouds are now the literal backbone of modern digital services. In late...

Backblaze’s recent quarters make a simple, high‑stakes claim: double down on B2 Cloud Storage growth to offset slower momentum in legacy backup, and use improving margins to bridge the firm to positive free cash flow. The evidence is unambiguous — B2 is accelerating and management is pushing...

Infortrend’s latest U.2 NVMe announcements mark a clear push to move enterprise storage beyond incremental refreshes and into an era focused squarely on AI-scale throughput, NVMe-oF fabrics, and high-density U.2 economics—an aggressive strategy that pairs new flagship nodes with purpose-built...

Global cloud infrastructure spending has hit a headline-grabbing figure—reported as £75.9 billion in recent press coverage—but that sum is best read as a currency-converted snapshot of a surging global market driven overwhelmingly by AI workloads, hyperscaler capex, and an accelerating shift...

MongoDB’s December quarter lit a fuse under a stock that had been battered earlier in the year, but beneath the headline beat-and-raise lies a nuanced story of product fit, partner distribution, and margin mechanics that every Windows/Azure architect and investor should parse before committing...

MongoDB’s December earnings rebooted a familiar narrative: a developer-first database product — MongoDB Atlas — is riding the AI and cloud tailwinds to stronger consumption, management raised full‑year guidance, and the market rewarded the company with a sharp post‑earnings pop that left...

AI’s appetite for memory and storage has reshaped the PC market faster than many hobbyists expected, and the idea that this is a coordinated plot to “kill local PCs” is seductive—but misleading. What’s actually happening is a mix of market concentration, prioritization of higher‑margin AI...

MongoDB’s recent quarter and partner headlines reset the narrative: Atlas consumption accelerated, management raised guidance, and investors responded with a sharp post‑earnings gap that has left traders and long‑term buyers debating whether MDB is a renewed growth story or a high‑flying name...

MongoDB’s cloud-first database has moved from developer favorite to a central piece of the modern AI stack, and recent results plus partner momentum have reignited investor interest — but the runway is not without fresh execution risks and competitive pressures. Background / Overview MongoDB...

Microsoft’s announcement of a new Azure cloud region in Johor Bahru — branded Southeast Asia 3 — marks a deliberate escalation of its Malaysia strategy, adding in‑country capacity purpose‑built for AI workloads while coupling that infrastructure with skilling, community and sustainability...

Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) has been named a winner in CRN’s 2025 Products of the Year Awards in the Storage – Cloud-Focused category, a recognition that underscores the vendor’s push to position VSP One as a unifying platform for hybrid and multi‑cloud data...

Amazon’s cloud crown is no longer unassailable: in the latest market surge driven by artificial intelligence, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are closing in, shifting growth dynamics, contracts, and capital strategies across the hyperscaler landscape. Background The global cloud infrastructure...

The global cloud infrastructure market has entered a new, faster phase of expansion driven by generative AI, but the scoreboard is shifting: Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest single provider by revenue, while Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are steadily closing the gap through...

Amazon Web Services is still the cloud market leader, but the landscape that made AWS dominant is shifting fast — Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are accelerating, specialised "neoclouds" are carving out lucrative AI niches, and worldwide infrastructure spend is ballooning at a pace that is...

Microsoft has quietly moved to make PostgreSQL the center of its next-generation data strategy with the launch of Azure HorizonDB — a managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, scale-out database engineered for cloud-native, AI-driven workloads and enterprise modernization. Background PostgreSQL's...

Avanade’s new packaged suite of Microsoft solutions aims to turn years of consulting experience into repeatable, productized offers that promise faster ERP modernizations, streamlined Azure migrations, AI‑ready workloads, tighter cloud cost governance, and ready‑to‑run AI contact‑centre and...

Microsoft’s virtual datacenter tour — presented through partners and event organizers including ChannelEye’s December 1, 2025 session — pulls back the curtain on the physical and engineering backbone that runs Azure, Microsoft 365 and the company’s expanding AI services, and it arrives at a...