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Microsoft’s recent selloff is a reminder that even the market’s most admired giants can be punished when expectations outrun execution. The company is still enormously profitable, still central to enterprise software, and still one of the core platforms for the AI buildout. But the stock’s sharp...

Yara’s Porsgrunn fertilizer plant is becoming a case study in how industrial companies are moving from fragmented operations to context-rich decision-making. Working with Kongsberg Digital, the company has deployed a digital twin on Azure that turns plant, equipment, and engineering data into a...

Food waste is often discussed as a supply-chain problem, but FoodFair shows what it looks like when the issue is treated as a public infrastructure challenge. In Belgium, the platform has used Microsoft Azure to turn surplus food into a nationwide redistribution network, helping route donations...

Publicis Groupe’s deepening alliance with Microsoft marks a significant escalation in the race to turn generative AI into an operating system for modern marketing. What began in 2018 as a partnership around the Marcel AI platform has now evolved into a broader push that ties together Azure...

Microsoft’s backing of Yobi is a telling sign of where enterprise AI is heading: away from generic audience targeting and toward predictive, privacy-aware consumer intelligence that tries to anticipate intent before a customer ever types a search query. The startup’s pitch is ambitious, and the...

Informatica’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft is more than a routine partner announcement: it is a signal that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring inside...

SoDa’s decision to place TAIM Insight Hub on Microsoft Azure is more than a routine cloud deployment. It signals where the market for enterprise knowledge systems is heading: away from static repositories and toward natural-language business intelligence that can interpret fragmented information...

Microsoft Azure saying it has validated and readied its datacenters for NVIDIA’s new Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI system marks a major inflection point: hyperscalers are no longer preparing for incremental GPU upgrades — they are rearchitecting entire racks, networks, and operations to host...

Arpio’s move to bring full-application, cloud-native disaster recovery to Microsoft Azure closes a visible gap in enterprise resilience planning: after years of focusing on AWS, the company now supports Azure workloads with the same automated orchestration, non-disruptive testing, and...

Microsoft’s new Azure Skills Plugin aims to close the gap between code that works on a developer’s laptop and code that actually runs, scales, and behaves correctly in a real Azure environment by packaging operational know‑how as executable skills paired with tool-backed MCP servers that let...

TierPoint’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Support Services on March 10, 2026, cements a broad, multi-year push by the company to align tightly with Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem — adding an audited, Microsoft-vetted endorsement of its service and...

SAP and Microsoft’s joint rollout of SAP Business Data Cloud on Microsoft Azure in Switzerland marks a practical next step in delivering EU Access options and data-sovereign cloud choices to enterprise customers, giving Swiss organizations the ability to combine SAP-governed business data with...

Microsoft’s February 2026 security updates closed a sensitive gap in Azure’s Confidential Container offering after the vendor recorded an information‑disclosure flaw that could expose secret tokens and cryptographic keys used by Azure Container Instances (ACI) Confidential Containers. The...

Arpio’s announcement that its cloud-native disaster recovery platform now supports Microsoft Azure marks a clear acceleration in the vendor’s multi-cloud ambitions and gives enterprises a unified path to application-aware disaster recovery across both AWS and Azure environments. The company...

Arpio’s Azure launch promises to close a glaring gap for enterprises pursuing consistent, cloud-native disaster recovery across multi‑cloud estates, bringing its automated, application‑aware DR platform — long focused on AWS — into Microsoft Azure environments with the same orchestration-first...

Simform’s elevation to Microsoft’s Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) tier is more than a marketing milestone — it’s a signal that the company has met Microsoft’s most exacting operational standards for running Azure at scale, and that it intends to position engineering discipline...

Simplilearn’s new Applied Agentic AI program, launched in partnership with Microsoft, is a timely and ambitious attempt to close a widening skills gap at the intersection of product management, systems engineering, and agentic AI architecture — a gap enterprises now say is material as they move...

Zilliz’s announcement that Zilliz Cloud BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) is now generally available on Microsoft Azure marks the company’s most significant multi‑cloud maneuver to date, bringing its managed Milvus-based vector database into customers’ own Azure subscriptions and completing BYOC...

Microsoft and OpenAI dropped a carefully worded joint statement that reads less like a press release and more like a legal safety net: despite OpenAI’s headline-grabbing new funding and an expanded Amazon partnership, the companies say the core terms of their multi‑year relationship remain...

Microsoft’s expanding cloud and AI empire has won it market share and investor applause — and now Japan’s competition watchdog has put that empire under the microscope, opening a fresh regulatory front that complicates the company’s growth story even as the business posts blockbuster results...