cloud governance

Pax8 said on June 9, 2026, that it will add inforcer to the Pax8 Marketplace this summer, giving managed service providers a new way to buy and deploy Microsoft 365 security, governance, and Copilot-readiness tooling for small and midsize business customers. The announcement is not simply...

Microsoft is cutting hundreds of Azure-related jobs in Beijing and Shanghai, with affected employees reportedly told last week that their roles will end on July 6 as the company reassesses its mainland China cloud footprint amid tighter US and Chinese data rules. The reported cuts are not a...

Microsoft’s DP-300 and AZ-305 Azure certifications remain active role-based credentials in 2026, aimed respectively at database administrators running Azure SQL and SQL Server workloads and architects designing cloud and hybrid Azure infrastructure. Their continued relevance says something...

Lunavi announced on June 3, 2026, from Cheyenne, Wyoming, that it has achieved Microsoft’s Azure Expert Managed Services Provider designation, a partner credential awarded after Microsoft qualification checks and an independent audit of Azure managed-services capabilities. The news is easy to...

ANS has renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider status after an independent audit of its Azure architecture, migration, security, and managed operations, with the Manchester-based provider now citing 267 Azure Lighthouse customers, 1,930 subscriptions, and more than 236,000...

Southeast Asia is facing a looming data sovereignty crisis in 2026 because governments are welcoming massive foreign cloud and AI infrastructure investments while failing to build comparable regional control over where strategic data is stored, processed, accessed, and governed. The danger is...

NTT DATA said on May 15, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on agentic AI, Azure, data engineering, and cloud-native application development. The deal is not just another services roll-up dressed in...

Microsoft disclosed on December 7, 2015, that Azure Blockchain as a Service was operating a Ripple validating node for Ripple’s bank users, placing Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure inside a live consensus network during the early enterprise-blockchain boom rather than merely hosting a laboratory...

Kyndryl and Microsoft are pitching a May 2026 enterprise AI model that combines Kyndryl’s operational services, Agentic AI Framework, Digital Trust governance, and Bridge platform with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI, security, data, and productivity services to move AI from pilots into managed...

Data and AI consultancy Eunoia has earned Microsoft’s Analytics on Microsoft Azure Specialisation shortly before appearing at Cloud Tech Expo in Limassol on May 15, 2026, giving the Malta-headquartered and Cyprus-operating firm a newly audited credential in enterprise cloud analytics. The badge...

Microsoft’s AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals certification is a beginner-level credential for people who want to prove basic cloud and Azure literacy, and as of January 14, 2026, Microsoft’s exam guide organizes it around cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and Azure management and...

When cloud computing enters border control, it stops being just an IT choice and becomes a governance decision with direct consequences for privacy, accountability, and even the safety of people on the move. A recent Georgetown Journal of International Affairs article argues that the European...

Amazon’s cloud story reached a clear milestone this week: Amazon S3 turned 20, and AWS used the moment to highlight both the service’s extraordinary scale and a string of practical feature additions — most notably account regional namespaces for S3 general purpose buckets — while also moving...

Anthropic’s confrontation with the U.S. Department of Defense has turned what looked like a routine procurement disagreement into a defining legal and strategic battle over the future of enterprise AI: one that will shape how private-sector safety commitments, hyperscaler economics, and...

Microsoft's swift legal reading — that Anthropic's Claude models can remain available to commercial users on Microsoft platforms while being excluded from Department of Defense workloads — has turned a routine vendor dispute into a defining moment for enterprise AI governance, cloud vendor...

OpenAI quietly reversing its public ban on military use of its models has become one of the clearest fault lines in modern AI policy — a move that preceded, intersected with, and now complicates the Pentagon’s increasing use of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI services, internal employee unrest, and a...

Microsoft’s decision to keep Anthropic’s Claude and related products available to customers outside of the Department of War has thrust the company — and corporate IT teams everywhere — into the middle of a rare convergence of national security policy, enterprise vendor strategy, and operational...

Choosing an operating system in 2026 means weighing not just raw performance but the ecosystem, long‑term support, software access, and how much control you want over your machine. Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS all answer those questions differently: Windows remains the all‑rounder with...

The migration of a mission‑critical title and escrow platform from AWS to Microsoft Azure was executed with an emphasis on zero downtime, zero risk, and maximum efficiency, delivering a fully operational Azure landing zone, data migration pipelines, VM migration, high‑availability SQL...

Microsoft’s decades‑long effort to recast itself as the tech industry’s “moral conscience” took a jarring turn this month after leaked procurement files and investigative reporting revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its use of Microsoft Azure...