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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...

Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage service promises to turn the scattershot promise of “agentic AI” pilots into repeatable, governed production at enterprise scale — and it does so in public partnership with Microsoft, explicitly positioning Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft’s agent governance...

Replit’s agentic platform, now tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure, is being positioned as a blockbuster shortcut for enterprises that want to put software-building power directly into the hands of non‑engineering employees — and large systems integrators like Hexaware are already packaging...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a regional power hiccup on February 7, 2026 that left a slice of the West US Azure footprint struggling — and it’s a reminder that even the biggest cloud platforms can be vulnerable to physical infrastructure failures and cascading recovery effects. (theverge.com)...

CAEVES’s announcement that its Intelligent Deep Storage™ is generally available for Microsoft Azure promises to turn long‑forgotten enterprise archives into instantly searchable, AI‑ready assets while cutting storage bills “by up to 70%”—a bold, practical pitch aimed squarely at organizations...

Rocky Linux 9 arrives in enterprises and clouds as a pragmatic choice: it promises RHEL‑equivalent stability and a predictable, decade‑long lifecycle while letting organizations run RHEL‑compatible workloads in Microsoft Azure without vendor subscription lock‑in. This article cuts through the...

Microsoft used Web Summit Qatar 2026 to put a clear stake in the ground: agentic AI, governed enterprise platforms, and partner-built solutions on Microsoft Azure are the practical pathway Microsoft wants governments and large organizations in Qatar to follow — but the announcements also...

Synoverge’s announcement that it has been awarded the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation in Digital & App Innovation | Azure is a clear signal that the Ahmedabad‑based digital transformation firm is intensifying its alignment with Microsoft’s cloud and developer platform priorities — but...

Microsoft’s cloud story has split into two competing narratives: headline metrics showing a deceleration in Azure growth, and behind-the-scenes indicators — a record revenue backlog fueled largely by long-term OpenAI commitments — that point to a very different future trajectory. The short...

Microsoft’s Copilot: From Hype to “Afterthought” — Can the Story Change This Quarter? By [Your Name] — January 2026 Summary: Over the last 18 months Microsoft poured people, product and capital into a sweeping strategy to make “Copilot” the AI layer across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub and...