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...
For decades, Europe’s ambitions of possessing truly “sovereign cloud” solutions—platforms supposedly placed beyond the reach of foreign powers—have collided with a technological and economic reality: America’s hyperscaler giants, especially Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services, have become...
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When enterprises heavily invested in Microsoft infrastructure migrate to the cloud, they find themselves facing a daunting paradox. Despite the widespread appeal of Linux as a cost-effective, flexible cloud operating system, many companies cannot simply rewrite their existing Microsoft-dependent...
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