cloud migration

Microsoft’s cloud playbook is full of maps, toolkits and incentives — but moving workloads into Azure is only the opening act; turning that infrastructure into measurable business value requires a fundamentally different conversation about modernisation, governance and long-term partner-led...

SOK and Vivicta have agreed a strategic extension of their long-term IT partnership that shifts the cooperative’s core retail platform toward public cloud operations, including a phased migration of SOK’s SAP estate to Microsoft Azure and continued managed services for a sprawling application...

Grand Traverse County is poised to approve a sweeping set of technology investments that will accelerate cloud migration across multiple departments, add 100 Microsoft Copilot AI seats, and launch a formal planning process for a new consolidated justice center — moves that collectively mark a...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, which means Microsoft will stop delivering routine security updates, quality fixes and standard technical support for most Windows 10 editions — but it will not remotely brick your PC the moment the date...

Lionel Barrow’s short, furious tour of Microsoft 365 — republished and amplified by The Register — reads like a field report from an alien visitor trying to understand a human ritual: a thirty-something engineer raised on Gmail who steps into Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, and Microsoft’s...

Windows keeps getting updated, and the quickest way to know what it’s doing on your PC is to check the version — a step that takes seconds but can shape whether your apps run, your data stays protected, and whether features like Copilot are even available to you. This practical guide explains...

Orange County Information Technology (OCIT) has formally asked the market how to move its data, applications and cloud services off Microsoft Azure — a move framed as a comprehensive “Cloud Services Migration” RFI that would, if executed, amount to a rare large-scale government cloud exit and a...

Microsoft’s Migrate and Modernize Summit landed not with a whisper but with a suite of agentic AI tools and commercial programs aimed at tearing down the friction that has long stalled cloud migrations and application modernization projects. The announcements — from GitHub Copilot’s App...

Three weeks is not a long time in the life of a PC, but when that window sits directly ahead of a fixed end-of-support deadline it becomes a hard stop: Windows 10 will stop receiving routine security and quality updates on October 14, 2025, and every Windows 10 user now has three practical...

Orange County’s IT shop has opened a formal conversation about moving major workloads off Microsoft Azure, issuing a Request for Information (RFI) that explicitly asks the market how to migrate applications, virtual machines, storage, databases and networking from Azure to another cloud — a move...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, routine security updates and mainstream support end for Windows 10 (version 22H2) and for perpetual releases Office 2016 and Office 2019 — a coordinated sunset that forces consumers and organizations to choose between upgrading, buying...

Caylent’s new AI-driven migration package lands squarely in the crossfire of a reshaped virtualization market, promising an output-based, pay-only-for-success model designed to pull VMware, Azure and GCP workloads into AWS while leaning on Amazon Bedrock and AWS migration services to speed...

Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...

VLink today announced it has achieved the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) — a formal recognition that positions the company as a validated provider of cloud-native application development, application modernization, and DevOps-led delivery on...

RiverMeadow’s announcement that its Workload Mobility Platform now supports Microsoft Azure Local marks a notable development for enterprises weighing VMware alternatives and planning large-scale cloud migrations. The vendor’s pitch—faster migrations, hybrid on‑premises + Azure management...

The Cabinet Office has quietly handed responsibility for its long-running, much-delayed migration from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 (M365) to another government unit, effectively changing the delivery model for the Falcon IT Platform Refresh and Migration programme and halving the project’s...

More than a month before Microsoft stops issuing security patches for Windows 10, a fresh Kaspersky telemetry snapshot is sounding a loud alarm: a majority of devices in its dataset remain on Windows 10, with a non‑trivial tail still running unsupported releases such as Windows 7 — a situation...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: Windows 10 will stop receiving free security updates on October 14, 2025, and every day that passes between now and that date increases the urgency for millions of households and businesses to act — whether by upgrading, enrolling in extended protection, or...

On October 14, 2025, support for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 ends — one month from now — and organizations that delay face escalating operational risk, loss of security updates, and an increasingly narrow set of safe upgrade paths. Microsoft’s Exchange engineering team has...