cloud infrastructure

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI a default layer of enterprise work just got a shot of oxygen from four of India’s largest systems integrators, a move that signals both rapid industrial-scale adoption of Copilot and a major expansion of Microsoft’s partner-led strategy for agentic AI across...

Microsoft’s infrastructure teams now talk about a “happy problem”: demand for cloud and AI services is surging faster than the physical capacity to run them, and solving that problem is reshaping how the company designs, powers and sites its data centres. This is no ordinary construction...

Amazon’s cloud crown is no longer unassailable: in the latest market surge driven by artificial intelligence, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are closing in, shifting growth dynamics, contracts, and capital strategies across the hyperscaler landscape. Background The global cloud infrastructure...

Amazon Web Services is still the cloud market leader, but the landscape that made AWS dominant is shifting fast — Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are accelerating, specialised "neoclouds" are carving out lucrative AI niches, and worldwide infrastructure spend is ballooning at a pace that is...

Astera Labs’ Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers are now powering a private preview of Microsoft Azure’s M‑series virtual machines, marking the first publicized deployment of CXL‑attached memory in a major cloud provider and opening a practical path to break the long‑standing memory wall for...

Astera Labs’ Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers are now powering customer evaluation of CXL-attached memory in Microsoft Azure’s M‑series virtual machines preview, a move that promises to reshape how cloud operators address the “memory wall” for memory‑hungry workloads while also exposing a raft...

Microsoft’s November 17 slate reads like an instruction manual for a company that has moved from software-first to full-stack AI infrastructure: new enterprise agent rollouts and Copilot features, tighter cloud‑sovereignty offers in Europe, a public preview for the Exchange admin API, a major...

Microsoft’s standing in the software industry is less a question of whether it still matters and more a question of how investors should value its mix of steady cash flows, massive scale, and heavy reinvestment into artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. Overview Microsoft today sits...

Microsoft’s virtual datacenter tour — presented through partners and event organizers including ChannelEye’s December 1, 2025 session — pulls back the curtain on the physical and engineering backbone that runs Azure, Microsoft 365 and the company’s expanding AI services, and it arrives at a...

On 29 October 2025 a widespread Microsoft Azure outage — traced to a misapplied configuration change in Azure Front Door — knocked Microsoft 365, multiple Azure-hosted services and a large swathe of third‑party sites offline for several hours, and the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and...

Microsoft’s latest AI push is less a single product launch and more a comprehensive ecosystem play: massive infrastructure, a family of copilots, sector-focused agents, and tooling that lets enterprises build, govern, and scale AI solutions — a combination that is already reshaping how global...

Sam Altman’s brief post on X has quietly signaled a strategic inflection point for OpenAI: the company is actively exploring ways to sell compute directly and — for the first time in plain language from its CEO — has raised the prospect of offering an “AI cloud” to other companies and people...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is the rare piece of software that can make a desk-bound user feel the unmistakable hush and throttle of a real cockpit — and yet, in recent years, the franchise has also become a case study in how modern simulation depends as much on cloud infrastructure, live data...

A widespread Microsoft DNS failure and Azure Front Door configuration error knocked large swathes of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox, and numerous customer sites offline on October 29, producing hours of global disruption to portal access, authentication flows and public-facing web services...

The last week’s earnings cascade from the megacaps drove a single, unmistakable message: the era of cheap experimentation is over — Big Tech is moving into an all‑in build phase for AI, and the price tag is staggering. Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft alone spent roughly $78 billion on capital...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on the afternoon of October 29, 2025, when an Azure Front Door configuration error produced a global outage that briefly knocked Xbox storefronts, Xbox Game Pass installs, Minecraft authentication, Microsoft 365 admin consoles and a long list of third‑party...

Microsoft’s decision to loosen its exclusive hold on OpenAI’s cloud compute — replacing outright exclusivity with a “right of first refusal” while preserving deep commercial ties — marks a strategic recalibration that both acknowledges the physics of modern AI and preserves Microsoft’s most...

Being “AI‑ready” is no longer marketing speak — it’s a practical, measurable condition that separates projects that deliver value from pilots that quietly die in “proof‑of‑concept” limbo. The term has become shorthand for a set of architectural, operational, cultural and governance capabilities...

GitHub’s engineering teams have been ordered to prioritize a full-scale migration of the platform’s production infrastructure to Microsoft Azure—pausing much new feature work—so the service can scale to meet an explosion in AI-driven workloads like GitHub Copilot, a move executives describe as...

Microsoft Azure has flipped the switch on what its engineers call the industry’s first “at-scale” GB300 NVL72 supercluster — a liquid-cooled, rack-scale deployment that links more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs into a single production environment to power OpenAI’s next-generation model...