cloud migration

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...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) quietly disclosed that it has spent roughly £312 million modernising its IT estate — a programme that removed 31,500 Windows 7 laptops, patched tens of thousands of vulnerabilities and migrated dozens of legacy applications — even...

Node4’s delivery of a Virtual Data Centre (VDC) to Stratas is a compact case study in how small, specialist technology firms can migrate away from aging on-premises infrastructure to a managed, consumption-based cloud model without surrendering control or compliance. The move replaced a...

MTN Group has completed a major re‑engineering of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform in South Africa, migrating the stack to Microsoft Azure and unveiling EVA 3.0 — a cloud‑native, Databricks‑powered lakehouse the company says now processes roughly 22 billion records per day, runs...

Microsoft has formally announced that Office Online Server (OOS) — the on‑premises product that delivered browser‑based Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote to enterprise datacenters — will be retired and reach end of support on December 31, 2026, forcing organizations that require in‑browser...

Microsoft has made it significantly easier for organizations to move large object stores from Amazon S3 into Azure by announcing the general availability of Azure Storage Mover’s cloud-to-cloud migration capability — an agentless, server-to-server transfer path that preserves metadata, supports...

Azure’s Storage Mover now supports direct cloud-to-cloud migrations from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage, delivering a fully managed, agentless path for moving large object stores into Azure with built-in orchestration, incremental sync, and observability—an offering that could reshape how...

G‑AsiaPacific’s elevation to AWS Premier Tier Services Partner marks one of the clearest signals yet that Southeast Asia-born cloud consultancies can scale from regional specialists to globally validated cloud integrators — a milestone announced across industry press and confirmed by the company...

Office Online Server (OOS) retirement announced — what Exchange on‑prem customers need to know and do By WindowsForum IT Desk — Oct 21, 2025 Microsoft has announced that Office Online Server (OOS) will be retired and reach end of support on December 31, 2026. For organizations that run Exchange...

Microsoft’s official tools for moving millions of PCs off Windows 10 and onto Windows 11 stumbled at the worst possible time: an updated Windows 11 Media Creation Tool released in late September can close immediately or fail to run on certain Windows 10 hosts, leaving users scrambling for...

The Microsoft Azure consulting landscape in Europe is heating up: market-watchers, vendors and buyers alike are reporting strong demand for cloud migration, modernization, AI and FinOps expertise, and a new crop of consultancies — from global systems integrators to regional specialists — are...

Microsoft has added an online migration option to the Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server migration service, enabling continuous data replication from a wide range of PostgreSQL sources (on‑premises, Azure VMs, Amazon RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL and more) so organizations can move...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Microsoft has quietly initiated one of the most consequential infrastructure shifts in GitHub’s post‑acquisition history: a phased migration of the platform’s production estate from GitHub‑owned colocation facilities into Microsoft Azure, a move driven by capacity constraints in Northern...

Microsoft has quietly begun the largest operational consolidation in GitHub’s post‑acquisition era: a phased migration of GitHub’s production estate onto Microsoft Azure, driven by capacity constraints in GitHub’s Northern Virginia colo footprint and the rising infrastructure demands of AI...

GitHub has quietly launched one of the most consequential infrastructure reorganizations in its post‑acquisition history: a full-scale migration of its production estate onto Microsoft Azure that GitHub engineers and Microsoft leaders describe as necessary to scale AI services like Copilot and...

Grand Traverse County’s Board of Commissioners has approved a coordinated package of technology investments that pushes several core services toward vendor‑hosted cloud models, renews enterprise productivity licensing, and seeds a controlled pilot of generative AI — moves framed publicly as a...

British Airways’ latest technology push is a full-throttle attempt to turn years of operational pain into a data-driven, AI-enabled airline — and the results so far show both impressive gains and clear new risks that every CIO, operations leader and IT professional should study closely...