A wave of frustration swept across businesses and IT administrators on May 6th, as a significant Microsoft 365 outage disrupted critical cloud services across North America. The incident, which began in the early morning hours, impacted a suite of foundational tools relied upon by organizations...
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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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As IPO anticipation simmers for AI cloud provider CoreWeave, the company was thrust into the spotlight this week after reports surfaced alleging a rupture with its largest client, Microsoft. For industry watchers tracking the trajectory of AI infrastructure startups—and the delicate dependency...
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Microsoft’s relentless march to define the modern productivity landscape has never been without friction, but the recent spate of email server issues has illuminated just how fragile even the world’s largest cloud ecosystems can be. Users have come to expect cloud-based email, like Outlook and...
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Rarely has a week in the world of enterprise IT been as turbulent or as publicly scrutinized as the one Microsoft’s email services just weathered. What began as a planned upgrade to the backbone of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem spiraled into a cascade of outages and authentication snags that left...
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In the fast-spinning world of digital productivity and connected workforces, it sometimes takes a sudden jolt to remind us just how deeply we rely on cloud services. The Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 outage that unfolded on March 1, 2025, was one such jolt, rippling across the globe and...
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When the Clouds Darken: How Amazon Web Services Outages Shake the Crypto World and Beyond
In the fast-moving digital economy, cloud computing serves as the backbone for countless online services, including cryptocurrency exchanges that have redefined the landscape of finance. Recent...
Microsoft Teams File Sharing Outage Signals Growing Strains on Microsoft's Cloud Reliability
In a development that has caught the attention of thousands of users globally, Microsoft Teams—the cornerstone collaboration tool for many organizations—has recently faced a significant file sharing...
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