cloud native

Microsoft’s new AKS Automatic has arrived in general availability, promising to remove the heavy operational lift traditionally associated with Kubernetes and make production-grade clusters accessible with a single, opinionated setting. The offering delivers preconfigured, production-ready...

Far EasTone Telecommunications and Microsoft Taiwan have formally deepened a strategic alliance that will push joint development across three concrete pillars — co-building teams, co-building platforms, and co-building services — with a specific push to accelerate 5G, AIoT, cloud-native...

Microsoft’s new Image Customizer for Azure Linux promises to shrink what used to be a lengthy, VM-driven image build process into a predictable, chroot-based workflow that operators can run in minutes — while integrating integrity protections such as dm-verity and code-integrity controls...

Azure has made a decisive push to lower the operational friction of Kubernetes with the general availability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic — an opinionated, fully managed mode of AKS that ships production-ready clusters with preselected networking, security, scaling, and...

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps no longer sits unchallenged as the default CI/CD and ALM suite for every team — in 2025 a broad set of alternatives have matured into real, production-ready choices that often outpace Azure DevOps on ease of setup, GitOps alignment, cloud-native scale, or AI-assisted...

Nutanix’s recent announcement — republished by several outlets — that it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure is a noteworthy PR moment for the company and a useful opening to examine how the vendor’s product strategy and market positioning...

Microsoft’s open-source transformation is no longer a talking point—it’s the operating system behind how the company builds cloud services, ships developer tools, and now delivers AI at planetary scale. From a headline‑grabbing 20,000‑line patch of Linux kernel code in 2009 to the containerized...

Microsoft’s Windows Office Hours returns on August 21, 2025, as a one‑hour, chat‑based Q&A focused on accelerating Windows 11 adoption, operationalizing Zero Trust, keeping fleets up to date, and moving workloads toward cloud-native models while respecting on‑premises and hybrid constraints...

NTT DATA’s launch of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud signals a major acceleration in enterprise digital transformation, promising to reshape how organizations leverage secure, AI-powered solutions for modernization, agility, and growth in a rapidly evolving landscape. As the...

In a decisive move to stake its claim as a global leader in AI-powered business transformation, NTT DATA has announced the launch of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud. This strategic initiative represents an intensification of the long-standing NTT DATA–Microsoft alliance and...

With data at the heart of modern business strategy, few leaders have embodied the fusion of technical prowess and future-driven strategy quite like Abhinav Bobba. Over a distinguished 14-year career in cloud data engineering, Abhinav has become recognized as a pioneering force in...

The gravitational pull of the public cloud market is intensifying, with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) all posting impressive year-over-year revenue gains in their latest earnings reports. Yet beneath these headline numbers lies a surprising and...

Across the ever-expanding digital frontier of enterprise IT, the underlying processors that power cloud infrastructure have become hotly contested territory. For years, Intel’s Xeon series held an unshakable lead, but recent shifts have put AMD’s EPYC and a growing portfolio of Arm-based server...

The rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise data management has entered a new phase with PingCAP's latest expanded collaboration with Microsoft Azure, a move designed to catalyze the adoption of distributed SQL technology across global enterprises. As organizations grapple with the need for...

Virtualisation has evolved from a niche IT solution to a foundational technology powering everything from enterprise data centers to agile cloud-native development across global corporations like Telefónica. Virtualisation solutions provide the vital ability to carve a single piece of hardware...

The arrival of Windows Server 2025 marks a pivotal point in enterprise IT, ushering in a series of advancements designed to meet the demands of modern digital infrastructure. With a relentless focus on improving security, optimizing performance, and enabling unprecedented agility within hybrid...

Zilliz’s latest expansion into Azure Central India marks a significant milestone in the global evolution of cloud-native vector databases. As the technological race for fast, scalable, and compliant AI data infrastructure intensifies, Zilliz is making headlines with its strategic infrastructure...

The evolution of Kubernetes deployment has entered a pivotal new phase, as Microsoft announces the general availability of its workload orchestration service within Azure Arc. This innovation arrives at a time when enterprises across multiple sectors—manufacturing, retail, healthcare...

PingCAP's recent collaboration with Microsoft Azure marks a significant milestone in the evolution of distributed SQL databases, particularly with the introduction of TiDB Cloud Dedicated in public preview on Azure. This partnership aims to provide enterprises with a robust, scalable, and fully...

PingCAP, a leading force in the distributed SQL database space and the driving power behind TiDB, has announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate distributed SQL adoption across the Azure ecosystem. This development represents not just the deepening of two...