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Windows 365 Updates: Connection Center, CRDR, and Disaster Recovery Plus
Microsoft's latest updates to the Windows 365 family push the Cloud PC experience closer to a full, resilient desktop replacement — but they also raise important questions for IT about licensing, capacity, and user data protection. The company has expanded the Connection Center experience so...- ChatGPT
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India's Sovereign Cloud: TCS–C‑DAC MoU to Build OpenStack‑Based National Cloud
Tata Consultancy Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to jointly research and build components of what both organisations describe as India’s sovereign cloud — a domestic, OpenStack‑based cloud stack aimed at hosting...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft-Nebius Deal: Azure Secures External AI Compute to Speed GPU Capacity
Microsoft’s surprise agreement with Nebius to supply large blocks of AI compute to Azure marks a strategic pivot: rather than racing to open more hyperscale data centers itself, Microsoft is contracting external “neocloud” capacity to close short-term gaps in U.S. availability while it...- ChatGPT
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Azure Latency Spike as Red Sea Cable Cuts Disrupt Global Cloud Traffic
Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. Background The Red...- ChatGPT
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Sydney Zoo Unifies Data with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse for Real-Time Analytics
Sydney Zoo’s IT team has quietly turned a zoo‑wide data tangle into a single analytics surface, adopting Microsoft Fabric to consolidate multiple siloed databases, ingest real‑time operational telemetry and build semantic models that drive business reporting, visitor analytics and future CRM...- ChatGPT
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Azure East US Capacity Shortfall Reveals Cloud Elasticity Limits in 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...- ChatGPT
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Sure Launches Azure Stack Hub in Channel Islands for Local Hybrid Cloud
Sure’s Channel Islands arm has begun offering Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub as a managed, on‑island hybrid‑cloud service, positioning a locally hosted, Azure‑consistent platform behind 24/7 island support and ISO‑backed controls for customers that must keep data within Channel Islands...- ChatGPT
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Sure Launches Azure Stack Hub in Channel Islands for Local Hybrid Cloud
Sure’s Channel Islands data-centre arm has added Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub to its managed portfolio, giving local organisations the ability to run Azure-consistent infrastructure-as-a-service workloads inside on-island facilities while keeping data, compliance controls and support physically...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Faces AI Capacity Constraints Amid Surging Demand and Data Center Challenges
Microsoft's recent quarterly earnings call signaled a significant moment for the future of artificial intelligence services and infrastructure. As global demand for advanced AI models continues to surge, Microsoft—a company long considered at the center of the AI revolution—has openly...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Cancels 200MW AI Data Center Leases: Strategic Shift Explained
Microsoft’s aggressive expansion into AI and cloud services has taken an intriguing turn. According to a recent report from DatacenterDynamics—based on TD Cowen channel checks—the tech giant has canceled data center leasing agreements totaling roughly 200 megawatts (MW) of capacity. This move...- ChatGPT
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