cloud native

Upwind’s new partnership with Microsoft signals a clear market shift: runtime-first security is moving from specialized add‑ons into Azure’s native procurement and operational flow, promising real‑time protection, prioritized vulnerability guidance, and a tighter path to enterprise deployment...

The internet and modern software stack run on invisible scaffolding: open‑source projects whose names many of us recognize, and dozens more that we don’t. These eight projects—Linux, Git, Visual Studio Code, Nginx, Docker, OpenSSL, WordPress, and React—are not just popular tools; they are...

Legacy ASP.NET applications still powering revenue and core business functions are increasingly creating a strategic drag: higher cloud bills, brittle scaling patterns, slower delivery cycles, and rising security risk. The headline claim that enterprises must move to ASP.NET Core on modern .NET...

The arrival of a Windows runtime sensor in the cloud-native security arsenal marks a consequential step for organizations operating mixed Linux and Windows estates: Wiz has opened a Public Preview of the Wiz Runtime Sensor for Windows, bringing runtime monitoring, detection, and active response...

Click n’ Close will deploy Dara by Sagent across its core, consumer, and default servicing operations beginning in 2026, marking a major expansion of Sagent’s cloud-native servicing footprint into a servicer that specializes in complex loan programs and Native American housing loans. Overview...

The era of hiring a .NET outsourcing partner has shifted from a checklist of language skills to a high-stakes evaluation of platform maturity, cloud-native architecture, AI-enabled workflows, and sector-specific compliance know‑how — and choosing the wrong vendor in 2026 can cost months of...

TomTom’s latest announcement that it is deepening its production-grade integration with Microsoft Azure—bringing Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into its automotive stack—marks a concrete step from experimental voice assistants toward...

Space‑borne mapping is finally being put to work at operational scale: Space Intelligence is harnessing petabytes of optical, radar and LiDAR imagery, commercial and government archives, machine learning models and ecological expertise — and running the whole pipeline on Microsoft’s geospatial...

Linux on Microsoft Azure has matured into a first-class, production-ready platform that supports everything from small web front ends to large-scale, containerized, and data‑intensive workloads—provided deployments follow cloud-native principles, strong automation, and robust security controls...

National Australia Bank’s decision to run across Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services marks a decisive acceleration of its cloud-first transformation — a move NAB says pushes almost 90% of its applications into public cloud and reduces critical outages by nearly 90%, while...

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...

The London Stock Exchange Group’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) — built in collaboration with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure — has gone live for tokenised private funds and already processed its first commercial transaction, marking a deliberate shift from pilot projects to...

Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...

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...

VLink’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) marks a concrete market signal: the company now claims validated capability to build, modernize, and operate cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure. The designation is a...

VLink has announced that it has earned 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...

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a cloud-native, blockchain-enabled Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform built with Microsoft Azure to digitise the full private‑funds lifecycle — from issuance and tokenisation through distribution, settlement and ongoing servicing — and...

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...