hyperscale cloud

Microsoft's public promise to "fix Windows 11" this year is not a marketing flourish — it's a direct response to hard, visible pain across the platform, and the company is now mobilizing a formal "swarming" effort to address the problems users and testers have been raising. Pavan Davuluri, who...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot Vision into Windows — a permissioned, session‑based capability that lets the Copilot app “see” one or two app windows or a shared desktop region and provide contextual, step‑by‑step help, highlights that point to UI elements, and multimodal responses (voice or typed)...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 is a deliberate, high‑stakes response to the economics of modern generative AI: a second‑generation, inference‑first accelerator built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, designed to cut per‑token cost and tail latency for Azure and Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI‑hosted services...

NVIDIA’s Rubin platform — unveiled at CES 2026 — is being pitched as a generational leap in rack‑scale AI computing: a six‑chip, tightly co‑designed system that promises dramatically lower inference token costs, exaflops‑scale rack throughput, and a reimagined storage layer for long‑context...

Analytics Insight’s roundup of the “Top 50 Information Technology (IT) Firms in the US” captures more than a ranking — it’s a snapshot of an industry reshaped by generative AI, cloud scale, and the services required to turn model prototypes into repeatable business outcomes. Background /...

Microsoft’s Windows Server 2025 introduces a long‑awaited, opt‑in native NVMe storage path that bypasses the decades‑old SCSI translation layer — and enterprising users have already found they can force the same native NVMe path onto Windows 11 by toggling the same controls. The change is...

Microsoft’s NZ North hyperscale cloud region has moved firmly out of the construction phase and into practical impact — one year after opening it is already underpinning AI pilots, public‑sector modernisation, telco transformation and telehealth services across Aotearoa, while prompting renewed...

The year 2025 closed with a very public reminder that hyperscale clouds are both the engine and the Achilles’ heel of the modern internet: a handful of control‑plane failures, configuration mistakes and a single high‑impact ransomware campaign produced a string of outages that affected millions...

Alphabet’s Google has quietly withdrawn its formal complaint against Microsoft over Azure cloud practices in the European Union, a strategic retreat that follows the European Commission’s decision to open a broader market inquiry into cloud computing under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This...

The European Commission has opened three formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), signaling that Brussels is prepared to consider applying the DMA’s toughest obligations to large cloud providers — a move that could...

The European Commission has opened a trio of market investigations into the cloud businesses run by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — a move that explicitly tests whether hyperscale cloud platforms should be treated as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and whether...

The European Commission has opened formal scrutiny of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to determine whether their cloud platforms should be designated as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) — a move triggered by a string of high‑impact outages that highlighted how...

The European Commission has opened a trio of market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), testing whether hyperscale cloud platforms should be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” and whether the DMA’s toolbox is fit to police...

The European Commission has opened three formal market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — two focused probes to test whether each cloud business should be classed as a DMA “gatekeeper” service, plus a third, horizontal...

The European Commission’s decision to open formal market investigations into the cloud businesses of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure — together with a third, cross‑cutting probe to test whether the Digital Markets Act (DMA) can sensibly be applied to cloud infrastructure — marks a...

The European Commission has opened formal market investigations into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), signalling a possible expansion of EU gatekeeper obligations into cloud infrastructure and setting the stage for a year-long regulatory review of...

Alphabet’s spending plans have just rewritten the map of the AI datacenter race: Google’s parent Alphabet said it will push capital expenditures to roughly $91–$93 billion in 2025, with management warning of a significant increase again in 2026 as cloud and AI demand outstrips capacity...

A high‑visibility outage on October 29, 2025 knocked large swaths of Microsoft Azure — including Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft 365 web surfaces, Xbox Live, and thousands of customer sites — offline for hours, and the failure, which Microsoft attributed to an “inadvertent configuration...

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a high‑impact outage on October 20, 2025 that knocked hundreds of consumer and enterprise services offline, exposed a brittle set of control‑plane dependencies (notably DNS resolution for Amazon DynamoDB), and renewed urgent debate about how the...

Microsoft’s internal forecasts now paint a longer, rockier road for its cloud operations: the data‑center capacity squeeze that rattled markets in 2025 is likely to extend well into 2026, constraining new Azure subscriptions in key U.S. hubs and forcing tougher tradeoffs between rapid AI growth...