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 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...
On July 29, 2025, a sudden capacity shortfall in Microsoft Azure’s East US region prevented many customers from creating or starting virtual machines — an event that exposed a blunt reality: public cloud elasticity has practical, physical limits, and “infinite” capacity is a marketing...
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The rapid expansion of AI-focused data centers has moved from a niche infrastructure story into a full-blown national policy and utility challenge: soaring electricity demand is forcing utilities and regulators to rewrite the rules on who pays for grid upgrades, while hyperscalers respond by...
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Microsoft’s Q4 earnings were a watershed moment for Azure — the company disclosed that Azure’s annual run rate has topped $75 billion, cloud revenue for the quarter rose to $46.7 billion, and Azure’s year‑over‑year growth accelerated to the high‑30s in the June quarter, while Microsoft’s backlog...
NVIDIA’s vGPU 19.0 release signals a pivotal moment for enterprise virtualization, as it brings unprecedented power and flexibility to modern data centers leveraging the formidable NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Series GPUs. By marrying innovations like Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning with...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has once again demonstrated why it remains a powerhouse in the artificial intelligence (AI) cloud sector, beating out rivals in profit growth and cementing its dominance over competitors such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Even with a seemingly modest 17%...
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Microsoft’s latest financial results reveal a story deeper and more nuanced than the headlines of artificial intelligence alone. While much attention has been given to their aggressive AI push, it’s the company’s mastery of traditional enterprise services and cloud infrastructure that has fueled...
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The latest earnings season has confirmed a seismic shift underway in the cloud computing landscape—a shift powered overwhelmingly by generative AI. While all eyes remain on the industry titans, namely Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud, it is the accelerating divergence...
The gravitational pull of the public cloud market is intensifying, with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) all posting impressive year-over-year revenue gains in their latest earnings reports. Yet beneath these headline numbers lies a surprising and...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) notched respectable gains in its most recent quarter, beating most Wall Street expectations for revenue totals. Yet in the hyper-competitive world of cloud computing, “respectable” can quickly start to look lackluster—especially when rivals like Microsoft and Google...
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Microsoft’s latest quarterly financial report confirms the scale and speed of the cloud revolution now reshaping the enterprise technology world. With Azure at the heart of its strategy, Microsoft has posted record-shattering results and executed one of the largest data centre expansions in...
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Microsoft’s latest set of quarterly financial results sent an unambiguous signal to the industry: its cloud and AI engines remain firmly in the growth lane. In the three months ending in June, Microsoft’s overall revenues leapt by 18%, reaching $76.4 billion compared to the same period a year...
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Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has emerged as a pivotal force in the company's financial resurgence, addressing previous concerns and propelling its market position to new heights. KeyBanc Capital Markets' recent upgrade of Microsoft's stock rating to 'Overweight' underscores the...
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Microsoft’s latest quarterly report has turned heads across the industry—not merely for its chart-topping financial results, but for the striking juxtaposition between historic layoffs and a cloud-fueled resurgence that has left even the most seasoned Wall Street analysts scrambling to...
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Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings call this week did more than report another set of record financials—it offered a rare, candid glimpse into the evolving ambitions, challenges, and tactics underpinning the company’s cloud business. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, used a poignant anecdote to...