Estonia’s state IT centre is quietly running two contradictory but complementary bets at once: a fast, pragmatic migration of tens of thousands of government desktops into a centrally managed Microsoft-based workplace cloud, and a parallel program to prototype Europe-only alternatives that could...
ALIANDO’s announcement that it has reaffirmed Azure Expert MSP status while expanding its Microsoft advanced specializations to 14 is a consequential development for enterprises shopping for audited Azure expertise and for the evolving Microsoft partner landscape.
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Microsoft’s January 2026 month of news landed as a high‑impact mix of emergency Windows patches, several high‑profile security discoveries, cloud migration deadlines and product surface realignments — a short, sharp reminder of how quickly platform changes can ripple through enterprises and...
Microsoft’s pitch that a “free cloud migration assessment” makes hybrid cloud easier to sell to enterprises is not new — but the story behind the offer matters more than the headline. What began as a simple assessment tool has grown into a full-stack commercial and technical funnel that pairs...
Microsoft’s quietly staged euthanasia of Microsoft Lens — the compact, dependable mobile document scanner that many Windows and Office users relied on for quick scans and OCR — landed this week with concrete dates: the app entered a formal retired state on January 9, 2026; it will be removed...
Digital transformation is no longer a competitive nicety for insurers — it is a survival imperative driven by customer expectations, regulatory pressure, and a hard-headed operational economics that legacy systems can no longer satisfy. Modern customers expect near-instant access to policy...
KION Group’s decision to migrate SAP and critical applications to Microsoft Azure, executed with DXC Technology as lead integrator, is a textbook example of how manufacturers can convert data-centre sprawl into operational agility and measurable cost savings—while also exposing the trade-offs...
Microsoft’s new cloud-native tenant-to-tenant migration orchestrator brings Exchange mailboxes, OneDrive files, and Teams chats into a single, Microsoft‑controlled migration workflow — a public preview intended to simplify mergers, divestitures, and large reorganizations while keeping data...
Phenomenex’s move from Dynamics AX to a cloud-first Microsoft stack is a concise blueprint for how a science-focused manufacturer can combine regulatory discipline, ecommerce integration, and modern ERP capabilities to speed operations and free capacity for innovation. The company — a Danaher...
AWS’s re:Invent keynote delivered a clear, ambitious thesis: agentic AI is no longer a research curiosity but a commercial imperative, and AWS will bet its infrastructure, silicon, and services on turning agents into operational tools that migrate, modernize, secure, and operate enterprise...
Ergo’s latest partner accolade — reported as the Microsoft Ireland Azure Partner of the Year for 2025 — reinforces a long-standing narrative about the Dublin-headquartered firm’s strength on Azure, but the announcement requires careful scrutiny because Microsoft’s canonical partner records point...
California State University, East Bay has quietly begun a campuswide switch from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 (Copilot-enabled) — a planned, phased migration that ITS says will take about 18 months and aims for completion in December 2026. The transition replaces Gmail with Outlook, Google...
Microsoft used its Ignite 2025 partner spotlight to make a blunt, practical point: scaling enterprise AI is no longer a platform-only problem — it is a partner-led systems problem where integration, data quality, governance and change management determine whether promises turn into measurable...
In a technology landscape where migrations to cloud platforms are routine but lasting operational success is rare, the profile of Karachi‑based cloud and infrastructure specialist Kelash in a national paper captures a practical truth: moving workloads is the easy part—keeping them secure...
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...
LTIMindtree’s renewed push with Microsoft aims to move enterprise AI and Azure adoption from pilots into production by combining LTIMindtree’s industry delivery with Microsoft’s expanded Azure AI stack — but the announcement also raises familiar questions about governance, cost visibility, and...
At Microsoft’s Ignite keynote this week, the company rolled out a sweeping set of developer-focused AI features designed to banish repetitive, error-prone work from engineers’ daily lives — from automatically generating pull requests that fix security bugs to routing prompts to the...
The cloud-migration calculus in 2025 is no longer a straight feature‑for‑feature tally; it’s a strategic choice that folds in existing software estates, regulatory constraints, data gravity, AI ambitions, and long-term vendor economics. The BigNewsNetwork primer the team supplied frames the...
Codebridge has announced that it is stepping up its Azure practice: the company says it has become a Microsoft partner and is launching a dedicated Azure Migration Services offering designed to move applications, databases and identity services to Microsoft Azure with minimal downtime and...
August AI’s decision to rebuild on Microsoft Azure marks a defining moment for startup healthcare AI: the Bengaluru-based company migrated several terabytes of patient data to a new Azure architecture in three months with no reported customer downtime, scaled from roughly 500,000 users to a...