cloud computing

Microsoft’s latest quarterly report produced a familiar paradox for investors: record-breaking top-line growth driven by an accelerating cloud and AI business, paired with an unprecedented spike in capital spending that immediately heightened questions about sustainability, margins, and the...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a high‑visibility disruption on Wednesday afternoon UTC when an apparent configuration error in Azure Front Door — Microsoft’s global edge and content delivery fabric — knocked a broad swath of Azure‑fronted services offline, producing real‑world outages for airlines...

UBS’s field checks at Oracle AI World suggest corporate cloud spending has moved from hand-wringing to pragmatism: budgets are broadly stable and healthy, AI-driven GPU demand remains strong, and the three hyperscalers — Amazon (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft (Azure) — are positioned to...

UBS’s field checks at Oracle’s AI World suggest a broadly positive but measured story: “stable, healthy” cloud spending is underpinning demand, and the largest hyperscalers — Amazon (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft (Azure) — are positioned to capture the bulk of that growth, albeit with...

Microsoft Azure and India’s Collective Artists Network (through its creator‑tech studio Galleri5) have launched Azure AI CineLabs, a joint program positioning Microsoft’s Azure AI stack as the production backbone for a slate of AI‑enabled film, episodic and short‑form projects — a move that...

Digital Brands Group’s headline announcement that its technology arm is “exploring advanced quantum initiatives through Microsoft Azure Quantum” may read like cautious corporate boilerplate, but it marks a noteworthy — and timely — intersection of two fast-moving trends: retailers embracing...

Windows 11 is fast becoming the backbone of a new wave of K‑12 digital transformation, offering districts a defensible security baseline, streamlined device management, and AI‑ready tools that promise to lift teacher productivity and student engagement—if school leaders plan carefully and manage...

Collective Artists Network and Microsoft have announced a strategic collaboration that stakes a claim at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, generative AI, and mainstream entertainment in India — a move that promises to accelerate AI-assisted filmmaking, episodic storytelling, advertising...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 has turned a routine lifecycle change into a board‑level strategic moment: with Windows 10 support ending, IT leaders now face a hard deadline that separates tactical fire‑fighting from a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to modernize endpoint estates, strengthen...

A single morning of cascading failures in a major cloud region can feel like an earthquake for the internet — and the October 20 AWS disruption showed how fragile the modern AI stack can be when core cloud control‑plane services wobble. Background Cloud computing has quietly reshaped how...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems...

The internet you use every day — from messaging apps and streaming services to online banking and government portals — runs on racks of servers, miles of fibre and a handful of companies that operate vast, power-hungry data centres: the cloud is the invisible engine of the web. Recent reporting...

A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cloud region crippled dozens of high‑profile internet services for hours on Monday, knocking streaming platforms, messaging apps, gaming services and even some bank websites offline and refreshing urgent questions about how much of the...

Kuwait’s government has moved from promise to program: officials and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to build an AI‑powered Azure Region inside Kuwait, roll Microsoft 365 Copilot out across government, and seed a local AI innovation ecosystem — a suite of commitments the government...

Microsoft’s appointment of Dahnesh Dilkhush as Chief Technology Officer for India and South Asia signals a clear acceleration of the company’s AI-and-cloud-first agenda in one of its most strategically important growth markets, putting an experienced internal leader at the center of efforts to...

MARbLEX and Microsoft quietly formalized a strategic hand‑shake on October 15, 2025 — a memorandum of understanding that combines MARBLEX’s blockchain publishing ambitions with Microsoft’s cloud and AI toolset to create a developer-focused “Accelerator” for web3 games and to lean Azure...

Microsoft and NASA have taken a substantial step toward making high‑frequency Earth observation data easier to use at scale: the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel‑2 (HLS) dataset is now exposed through Microsoft’s Planetary Computer on Azure, enabling direct access to harmonized, cloud‑native...

Microsoft’s Planetary Computer now hosts NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel‑2 (HLS) archive on Azure, bringing a multi‑petabyte, harmonized, cloud‑native time series of 30‑meter surface reflectance imagery into a production‑grade environment where researchers and enterprises can run...

Cloud‑managed remote mailboxes are now being promoted from preview into production-ready use, delivering the long‑promised ability to manage Exchange‑specific attributes for directory‑synced mailboxes directly in the cloud and removing one of the most common reasons organizations kept a “last...

Microsoft Azure’s new NDv6 GB300 VM series has brought the industry’s first production-scale cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems online for OpenAI, stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to create a single, supercomputer‑scale...