cloud computing

If you think “global tech leadership” only wears grey suits and speaks with a Silicon Valley twang, think again—these days, it probably has a dash of suya in one hand and a swag of youthful ambition in the other. Nigeria’s tech revolution is not a distant promise, it’s a red-hot reality, and the...

It’s a long way from the overstuffed corporate data silos of yesteryear to the sleek, conversational AI agents doing devops while sipping a soy latté (hypothetically, of course). And yet, here we are: Microsoft, master of the cloud, has just lobbed a firecracker into the world of AI-data...

Buckle up, Windows aficionados, because the days of breezing through your Windows 11 installation screens with a quaint little local account—no cloud tethers, no sign-up shenanigans—are now officially over. Microsoft has waved its magic wand, and what once was a hidden door for privacy diehards...

As the clock ticks inexorably closer to October 14, 2025, a peculiar kind of anxiety is starting to haunt millions of Windows 10 users. No, it’s not a Y2K-style bug (we hope), but the cold, hard reality that Microsoft is preparing to pull the plug on support for their beloved, battle-worn...

When VMware quietly pulled the plug on its free ESXi hypervisor earlier this year, it felt like the end of an era. Veteran sysadmins exchanged knowing glances, home lab hobbyists clutched their coffee mugs with trembling hands, and social media buzzed with equal parts panic and nostalgia. But...

If you’ve ever wondered what ties together your TikTok addiction, remote work, smart toasters, AI chatbots, and that moment your email inbox groaning under the weight of another “Welcome to Our Cloud!” message, the answer hums quietly (and freezing cold) in an imposing warehouse somewhere in...

It’s not every day an enterprise software upstart quietly morphs into the rootstock of a $1.3 trillion tree, poised to bear fruit across nearly every vertical you can name. Yet, in the teeming jungle of the digital revolution, one company has burrowed deep, grown silently, and now stands ready...

If you blink, you just might miss the next multimillion-dollar slab poured for yet another data center somewhere between the rolling cornfields of Iowa and the glassy, sky-mirroring towers of Toronto. But with a market eclipsing $76.56 billion in value for 2024 and a projected trajectory...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a cloud-borne data center, turbocharged to keep North America’s digital lifeblood pumping faster than ever. Behind this digital renaissance lies a race, part Silicon Valley sprint, part infrastructure Olympics, to build the vast computer fortresses powering...

The average IT department has a well-worn relationship with the server room. It’s that humming sanctuary behind a keypad lock, full of blinking lights and patch panels where a handful of lucky sysadmins have kept your business running through more caffeine-soaked evenings than they care to...

A cavernous hush settled over the Great Hall in Seattle as Microsoft’s luminaries gathered to honor five decades of invention, determination, and—most recently—controversy. If ever an occasion was destined for triumphant nostalgia, this was it. Yet the mood was anything but celebratory. The...

In the heart of a region renowned for its rich tapestry of tradition, ambition, and sand that gets just about everywhere, a quiet revolution is underway. The gears of Saudi Arabia’s digital future have started spinning faster, and the hum of innovation is growing louder, thanks to a strategic...

The high-stakes game of cloud computing is no longer a contest of whose logo can take up the most real estate on hilltop data centers—it’s a hardware arms race, and the battleground is blistering hot. Forget the old days where a server was just a box you plugged into a rack and sort of hoped it...

The world of higher education is in the thick of an AI revolution—one where line-by-line essay feedback, round-the-clock academic support, and campus-wide efficiency may finally be less wishful thinking and more real-world possibility. As students, faculty, and administrators yearn for...

A full year after VMware unceremoniously stuffed its most beloved community freebie into a digital sarcophagus, something unexpected is stirring in the world of virtualization: the resurrection of ESXi's free tier. In a move that’s as quietly dramatic as a hypervisor reboot at 3am (when nobody’s...

Azure customers with deep roots in Microsoft infrastructure often feel like anyone who’s tried to quit caffeine—trapped by familiar dependencies, aware there are alternatives, but facing a brutal headache at the mere thought of change. As the cloud wars rage on across the UK and beyond, a fresh...

There are moments when even the most forward-leaning technophile has to admit: artificial intelligence is moving at breakneck speeds, and the pace isn’t about to let up. Those holding out for a pause button on innovation will find themselves searching in vain. Nowhere is this relentless...

If you blinked this quarter, you might have missed Vena’s latest leap into the clouds—specifically, the Azure cloud, clad in agentic AI armor and brimming with newfound industry accolades. As the new fiscal year cracks open, Vena, already known as the “#1 agentic AI-powered FP&A platform...

Imagine a world where your choice of cloud provider is as simple as choosing between chocolate or vanilla ice cream at your favorite gelato shop. No guilty upcharges. No complicated fine print. Just pure, unbridled freedom—a world, in other words, the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority seems...

It’s not often that two tech titans come together for a handshake that makes waves across the globe, but when Microsoft, king of clouds, and Databricks, monarch of data lakes, declare their partnership is going global, you’d be mistaken not to sit up a little straighter in your Herman Miller...