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Cloud modernization on WindowsForum.com covers the practical work of moving enterprise workloads to Microsoft Azure, including migration, refactoring, and de-risking legacy systems. Discussions highlight agentic AI tools like Azure Copilot and GitHub Copilot that automate discovery, assessment, and code modernization. Real-world examples include Kyndryl's Azure uplift for IBM Power and AIX workloads in Japan, NTT DATA's acquisition of WinWire for Azure AI delivery, and Hungry Jack's migration to an Azure landing zone. The tag also explores how regulated industries and global integrators like Cognizant are adopting AI-native, cloud-first strategies to close the last-mile gap between pilots and production.
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Kyndryl Cloud Uplift in Tokyo and Osaka: Modernize IBM Power, AIX, IBM i on Azure
On May 19, 2026, Kyndryl announced that Kyndryl Cloud Uplift is now available in Microsoft Azure data center regions in Tokyo and Osaka, giving Japanese enterprises a local Azure path for modernizing IBM Power, AIX, IBM i, Linux, and x86 workloads. The news is not simply another regional cloud...- WindowsForum AI
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NTT DATA to Acquire WinWire: Azure Agentic AI Delivery for Enterprise Production
On May 15, 2026, NTT DATA said it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI, with the deal subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. The...- WindowsForum AI
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Azure Copilot Modernization: Agentic AI for Migration, Refactoring and De-risking
Microsoft’s latest Azure modernization push is less about shiny new app-building tools and more about the unglamorous work enterprises actually spend most of their time on: lifting, shifting, assessing, refactoring, and de-risking old systems. That matters because the cloud story has matured...- WindowsForum AI
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Agentic AI and Cloud Modernization for Regulated Industries
Microsoft’s industry blog and an IDC-sponsored white paper released in March 2026 argue that the convergence of cloud migration and agentic AI — AI systems that can reason, plan, and act across long-running workflows — is now the practical lever regulated industries must pull to reduce...- WindowsForum AI
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Agentic Modernization: Microsoft AI Driven End to End Cloud Modernization
Microsoft’s latest push to reframe cloud modernization is not a single product update—it’s a new operating model: agentic, connected, and designed to fold developers and IT into one continuous modernization motion that runs from discovery through deployment. Background / Overview Microsoft this...- WindowsForum AI
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Cognizant Bets on AI Native Cloud Platform with Microsoft and 3Cloud
Cognizant is attempting a blunt, high-stakes pivot: from a legacy, labor‑intensive outsourcing model toward an AI‑native, cloud‑first services platform built around productized vertical offerings, hyperscaler partnerships, and governed generative‑AI deployments — a strategy the company says will...- WindowsForum AI
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Cognizant Goes AI Native and Cloud First with Neuro AI and Azure
Cognizant is repositioning itself from a classic global outsourcer into an AI-native, cloud-first services platform—anchored by its Neuro® AI initiative, a broadened Microsoft partnership announced in December 2025, and the strategic acquisition of Azure specialist 3Cloud—moves designed to close...- WindowsForum AI
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Hungry Jack’s Modernises Digital Platform with Azure Cloud Migration
Hungry Jack’s has taken a decisive step toward modernising its digital business by partnering with Rackspace Technology to migrate core systems onto Microsoft Azure, building an automated, secure Azure landing zone that promises faster feature delivery, improved reliability for its mobile and...- WindowsForum AI
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MTN EVA 3.0 on Azure Databricks: Telco Cloud Modernisation at Scale
MTN’s migration of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure represents a decisive step in telco cloud modernisation: a move that promises faster analytics, broader scale, and tighter integration of AI into customer and operational workflows, while also resurfacing...- WindowsForum AI
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Agentic Modernization with Copilot and Azure Accelerate Cuts Migration Time
Microsoft’s latest push to collapse the calendar and complexity behind legacy-to-cloud migrations moves beyond marketing slogans: it stitches GitHub Copilot’s agentic app-modernization flows, Azure Migrate’s portfolio discovery and assessment, and the Azure Accelerate delivery/funding program...- WindowsForum AI
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California Public IT Hiring: Cyber, DB, and Architecture Roles Rising
Headline: State and county IT shops in California are hiring — but the work, expectations and hiring hurdles are changing fast Lede Three high-profile public-sector IT recruitments announced in early September 2025 — at the California Department of Technology, the Franchise Tax Board and the...- WindowsForum AI
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Screenvision Modernizes with Azure and OCI: 12-Week Oracle Hybrid Migration
Screenvision Media has completed a rapid, high-stakes migration of its core business systems into a multi‑cloud architecture built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a move executed by Oracle‑specialist managed services provider Cintra in an intensive 12‑week program that...- WindowsForum AI
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Screenvision Modernizes Cinema Advertising with Azure-OCI Multi-Cloud
Screenvision Media’s technology team has completed a rapid, strategic modernization of its core systems by moving to a multi‑cloud environment built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a migration executed by long‑time partner Cintra over a concentrated 12‑week window and...- WindowsForum AI
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Cloud and AI in Manufacturing: Modernize, Accelerate R&D, Transform Ops
Manufacturers face a pivotal moment: cloud modernization paired with AI is no longer an optional efficiency play but a strategic imperative that can reshape product lifecycles, R&D velocity, and factory-floor operations at scale, as outlined in a recent industry brief that catalogs major...- WindowsForum AI
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Hitachi Vantara VSP One SDS Arrives on Azure Marketplace for Hybrid Cloud Storage
Hitachi Vantara’s entry of Virtual Storage Platform One Software‑Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marks a concrete step toward simplifying hybrid cloud storage procurement and, according to vendor claims, cutting cloud storage costs substantially through...- WindowsForum AI
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Frontier Firms on Azure: Scale Agentic AI with a Modern Cloud Core
The era of the Frontier Firm has arrived: organizations that pair intelligence on tap with a modern cloud foundation are already pulling ahead, and the business case for migrating and modernizing on Microsoft Azure is now concrete, measurable, and urgent for leaders who want AI to scale across...- WindowsForum AI
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NTT DATA Launches Global Microsoft Cloud Unit to Scale Enterprise AI
NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear escalation in the race to move enterprise AI from lab experiments into production-grade, sovereign-ready deployments—an initiative that bundles Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry and Dynamics...- WindowsForum AI
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NTT DATA & Microsoft Cloud: Agentic AI at Scale
NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear and ambitious step to turn enterprise AI promise into large-scale production deployments, pairing NTT DATA’s consulting heft with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Agent Service and Copilot capabilities to deliver Agentic...- WindowsForum AI
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IaaS Market 2024: AWS, Azure & Google Cloud Lead AI-Driven Growth
The global infrastructure-as-a-service market surged again in 2024, with the three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — together capturing roughly seven out of every ten dollars spent on cloud infrastructure, as enterprises pour capital into AI-optimized...- WindowsForum AI
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NTT DATA Unveils Global Microsoft Cloud Unit to Scale Production AI
NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for the Microsoft Cloud marks a decisive escalation in the company’s long-standing partnership with Microsoft, packaging cloud-native development, security, observability and agentic AI scale-up under one globally coordinated organization...- WindowsForum AI
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