cloud governance

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has lodged a formal complaint with Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) alleging that Microsoft Ireland unlawfully processed data on behalf of the Israeli Defence Forces in a manner that enabled mass surveillance, the transfer of large volumes...

Microsoft’s public update about CVE-2025-55552 names the Azure Linux distribution as the Microsoft product for which the company has published a machine‑readable attestation, but that statement describes what Microsoft has validated so far rather than proving that no other Microsoft product...

Microsoft is facing a formal complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission alleging the company aided the Israeli military in removing or obscuring evidence of mass surveillance of Palestinians stored in European cloud data centres — a development that sharpens legal, technical and...

Microsoft’s decision to cut off a set of Azure and AI services to a unit in Israel’s Ministry of Defence followed explosive investigative reporting that alleged the Israeli military had built a cloud‑scale surveillance pipeline to ingest, transcribe and index millions of Palestinians’ phone...

Cloud technology is no longer an optional utility for finance teams — it’s a strategic platform that reshapes budgeting, forecasting, compliance, and the speed at which finance can support business decisions. Recent industry reporting highlights how cloud vendors and specialized FinOps vendors...

Microsoft has quietly moved Azure Copilot out of the sidebar and into the engine room: at Ignite 2025 Microsoft unveiled an agentic Azure Copilot — a managed orchestration layer and a family of purpose-built AI agents designed to plan, reason, and (with guardrails) act across the cloud...

In Pakistan’s shifting digital landscape, the work that keeps banks, hospitals, software houses, and universities running rarely makes headlines — but it is exactly this steady, unspectacular engineering that decides whether a migration to Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, or hybrid cloud becomes...

INTERCEPT's new guidance on Microsoft Azure arrives at a moment when many small businesses are rethinking their IT stacks, and its central claim — that Azure can be a practical, secure, and cost‑effective cloud choice for SMBs — is largely supported by Microsoft’s product architecture and the...

Microsoft's announcement that it has halted and disabled specific Azure and AI subscriptions used by Israel's Ministry of Defense marks a rare, consequential intervention by a major cloud provider into the geopolitics of surveillance and wartime intelligence — an intervention prompted by...

Microsoft’s latest push to make Copilot an operational partner — not just an assistant — marks a clear inflection point: Azure Copilot is being extended with a family of specialized agents and an orchestration layer that together promise to automate major parts of the cloud lifecycle for DevOps...

Microsoft has repositioned Azure Copilot from a conversational helper into an agentic orchestration platform to run cloud operations at scale, unveiling a family of specialized AI agents and an orchestration engine designed to automate deployment, migration, optimization, observability...

The European Commission has opened formal market investigations to decide whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), and has launched a parallel, horizontal review of whether the DMA’s toolbox is...

The European Commission’s decision on 18 November 2025 to open three formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) marks a major escalation in how Brussels intends to police cloud infrastructure and the competitive dynamics...

Brussels has opened formal market investigations that put Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely in the regulatory crosshairs, probing whether the two hyperscalers should face tougher, gatekeeper-style rules under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act — a move that could reshape...

The diginomica network’s latest research lands a clear, uncomfortable verdict for enterprise technology teams: artificial intelligence is not primarily a technical deployment problem — it is a change management problem. Within an invitation‑only community of CIOs and CTOs, the report finds...

The European Commission is preparing a formal look into whether Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud should be brought within the scope of the Digital Markets Act after a run of high‑impact outages exposed both the systemic importance of hyperscale clouds and the practical...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for the energy sector marks a conspicuous push to marry enterprise-grade agentic AI with cloud-scale operations — a packaged solution that combines Infosys Topaz, Infosys Cobalt, and Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure AI Foundry capabilities to convert real‑time operational...

Microsoft’s latest push to reassure European customers — promising that EU customer data “stays in Europe” — is a major public-relations and engineering milestone, but it does not erase legal, architectural, or operational trade-offs that organisations and regulators must still confront...

The Server Side’s take on Azure DevOps Expert Exam Dumps and AZ‑400 “braindumps” is a clear-eyed, practical admonition: shortcutting certification with leaked question banks may yield a fast pass, but it risks revocation, reputation damage, and, most importantly, the absence of durable...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 announced a 200‑megawatt expansion of data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates, a move folded into a broader Microsoft commitment of roughly $15.2 billion for UAE AI and cloud infrastructure between 2023 and 2029; the partners say the new capacity will begin...