Nutanix and Microsoft have taken a significant step toward a more flexible, partner-driven VDI landscape by announcing that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, enabling organizations to run AVD session hosts on-premises on Nutanix AHV...
Telefónica’s Brazil unit has moved from public-cloud experimentation to a concrete hybrid strategy by adopting Azure Local for on‑premises workloads, using Azure Arc to unify management and planning IaaS-first deployments today with AKS and Azure Virtual Desktop on the roadmap. This marks a...
Microsoft’s advisory ecosystem has flagged an elevation‑of‑privilege issue affecting Azure compute management components that can let an authenticated local user escalate to system/root on an affected host and, crucially, potentially abuse machine‑assigned identities and extension management...
Azure’s Storage Mover now supports direct cloud-to-cloud migrations from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage, delivering a fully managed, agentless path for moving large object stores into Azure with built-in orchestration, incremental sync, and observability—an offering that could reshape how...
The webinar “HITS in the cloud: elevate your SQL Server strategy with Azure Arc” delivered a practical, business‑focused playbook for modernising SQL Server estates across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments — emphasising unified management, automated compliance, flexible licensing, and...
A high‑impact, local elevation‑of‑privilege issue has been reported in Microsoft’s Azure agent ecosystem that can let a low‑privileged local actor escalate to SYSTEM/root on affected hosts and potentially abuse machine‑assigned identities and extension management functionality — but the numeric...
A new elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) agent — tracked publicly under multiple CVE identifiers including CVE-2025-58724 in recent feeds — has been confirmed as an improper access control issue that allows an authorized local user to escalate...
A high‑impact elevation‑of‑privilege flaw has been disclosed in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) agent that can let an authenticated local user — or an attacker with low‑privileged local execution — escalate to SYSTEM/root on Arc‑enabled servers, and potentially abuse machine identities...
Microsoft’s advisory record for the CVE identifier you supplied (CVE‑2025‑47989) does not resolve to a public MSRC advisory; however, a confirmed elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) defect in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc / azcmagent) family has been published, tracked in vendor advisories and...
Bloomberg’s Managed Systems Engineering team is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer — Windows Services to lead a global effort to modernize and harden the company’s Active Directory (AD) estate, manage the Windows server fleet, and operate identity and access services at massive scale; the role is...
atQor says it has renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — and the company is using that renewal to recast itself as a global leader in secure cloud modernization and AI‑first transformation, while making an unusually specific operational claim: the renewal...
atQor has announced that it has successfully renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — a high‑bar credential in the Microsoft partner ecosystem — and says the renewal audit was completed in a single day, underscoring the company’s focus on secure cloud...
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Principled Technologies’ recent press materials argue that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce measurable gains in performance, manageability, and cost predictability — but those headline claims come with important caveats and require careful validation before...
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A recent Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated via a press release and republished across PR channels — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability for many enterprise AI...
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...
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A new Principled Technologies (PT) study—distributed as a press release via EIN Presswire and reported on partner channels—claims that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost for enterprise AI projects...
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RiverMeadow’s announcement that its Workload Mobility Platform now supports Microsoft Azure Local marks a notable development for enterprises weighing VMware alternatives and planning large-scale cloud migrations. The vendor’s pitch—faster migrations, hybrid on‑premises + Azure management...
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TierPoint’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud marks a notable step in the ongoing normalization of Azure-consistent private cloud offerings—and signals that major service providers are now formally recognized for running cloud-native...
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CVE-2025-49692 Azure Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Overview
What happened: Microsoft has posted an advisory for CVE‑2025‑49692 describing an improper access control vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Windows Virtual Machine) Agent that can allow an...
A high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Arc has been disclosed and patched — but the public tracking and identifier details are messy, and administrators must act now to confirm which of their Arc installations are affected, apply vendor fixes, and harden local...