A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
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Ottawa’s recent disclosure that federal departments have spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. hyperscalers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and the Department of National Defence (DND) confirming mission‑critical workloads running on Amazon Web...
Microsoft’s IBC 2025 partner showcase made one thing clear: AI and cloud are no longer experimental addons for media workflows — they are the scaffolding for the next generation of production, distribution, and audience intelligence.
Background
IBC 2025 was widely framed as a turning point for...
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Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...
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ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure via the Azure Marketplace, bringing the company’s algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure compute services and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of Reservations and...
TierPoint’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud marks a notable step in the ongoing normalization of Azure-consistent private cloud offerings—and signals that major service providers are now formally recognized for running cloud-native...
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Tata Consultancy Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to jointly research and build components of what both organisations describe as India’s sovereign cloud — a domestic, OpenStack‑based cloud stack aimed at hosting...
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ProsperOps’s CloudX Award win cements a clear message to the market: FinOps automation has moved from a niche toolkit into mainstream cloud management, and vendors that can safely automate both rate and workload decisions will shape how enterprises control cloud spend going forward.
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The confrontation at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in August and the weeks of escalation that followed have turned a previously quiet internal dispute into what may be the most consequential labor story in the U.S. this year: current and former Microsoft employees organized under the banner No...
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Microsoft’s latest internal shake-up has collapsed two debates that have run through corporate tech since the pandemic: how much power employers should have over employee speech, and how far the hybrid workplace experiment goes before organizations insist on physical presence as a business...
Microsoft’s announcement of an “urgent” external investigation into allegations that Israel’s Unit 8200 used Azure to store and process recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls crystallizes a larger, underappreciated shift: the world’s leading cloud providers are not just vendors — they...
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Former Parallo engineers Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow and Jay Strydom have quietly reassembled to launch Spotto.ai, an AI-native Azure cloud optimisation platform aimed squarely at MSPs and SaaS teams wrestling with runaway cloud bills and fragmented operations. (reseller.co.nz, spotto.app)...
A small, live‑streamed sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrests and multiple firings has blown open a simmering internal dispute over the company’s government contracts — and crystallized a broader industry reckoning about cloud ethics, sovereign deployments, and the limits...
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Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...
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Microsoft’s decision to terminate four employees after on‑campus protests over the company’s ties to Israel crystallizes a larger, unresolved crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, corporate governance, and worker activism.
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In late August, demonstrators from a...
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Atturra’s announcement that it has secured the Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Partner designation marks a significant addition to its already deep Microsoft credentials and positions the ASX‑listed services firm at the forefront of sovereign, hybrid and on‑premises Microsoft delivery in...
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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
Microsoft’s president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli...
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Atturra’s recent recognition within Microsoft’s partner ecosystem marks a meaningful shift in Australia’s sovereign cloud landscape, but the headline — that Atturra is “Microsoft’s first Private Cloud Solution Partner in Australia” — deserves careful parsing and verification before it becomes an...
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Atturra’s rise through Microsoft’s partner ranks has been rapid and highly visible, with multiple outlets reporting that the Australian integrator has secured a significant new recognition in the hybrid and private cloud space — a development that, if fully verified, would strengthen its...
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