cloud storage

Microsoft’s recent push to remake Azure Storage into the backbone for exabyte-scale AI and modern enterprise workloads rewrites several long‑standing assumptions about cloud storage — from how training data is fed to GPUs to how mission‑critical databases are protected and migrated. The...

Microsoft's quietly updated support page has done something useful: it finally explains, in plain language, what the new perpetual Office 2024 product actually delivers — and how it differs from the increasingly AI-saturated Microsoft 365 subscription family. For anyone trying to decide between...

Microsoft’s plain‑language comparison of Office 2024 and Microsoft 365 makes the trade-offs impossibly clear: buy Office 2024 and you get a one‑time, device‑locked copy of the core Office apps for a single PC or Mac with security updates but no ongoing feature additions; subscribe to Microsoft...

Microsoft has published a plain‑language support table that spells out the practical differences between the new one‑time purchase Office 2024 and the Microsoft 365 subscription, and the contrast is sharper than many marketing blurbs let on — one model buys stability and ownership, the other...

Dell’s move to bring PowerScale directly into the Azure control plane signals a meaningful shift for enterprises that need high-performance file storage in the cloud without giving up the OneFS feature set and operational model they rely on today. Background / Overview Dell PowerScale for...

NetApp’s win of the 2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year award for the Software Development Company (SDC) — Canada category signals more than a marketing milestone; it underlines a deepening strategic integration between a legacy enterprise storage vendor and Microsoft’s Azure platform at...

NetApp says it won the 2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year award in the ISV/SDC — Canada category, a short Business Wire / Globe and Mail–distributed release that has started circulating in trade feeds — but independent checks of Microsoft’s public winners lists and NetApp’s primary...

I still remember the jolt Windows 8 delivered: a desktop-company pushing a tile-first, touch-forward interface into a PC world that had long settled into the comfortable grooves of Windows 7. For a subset of users that welcome bold, experimental design, Windows 8.1 fixed the raw edges and...

Google and Reliance’s surprise tie-up to give millions of Reliance Jio subscribers free access to Google’s premium AI suite is not a small marketing stunt — it is a deliberate, high‑stakes move to accelerate AI adoption across India by bundling advanced generative AI, large‑context models, and...

Microsoft Word on Windows will now create new documents directly in the cloud by default — saving them to OneDrive (or a tenant “preferred cloud destination”) with AutoSave switched on from the first keystroke — a small UX change with large consequences for privacy, governance, and desktop...

Microsoft has quietly changed a fundamental assumption of desktop productivity: in current Microsoft 365 Insider builds of Word for Windows, newly created documents are now saved to OneDrive (or a tenant-preferred cloud destination) by default with AutoSave turned on from the first keystroke — a...

Microsoft Word is changing a fundamental assumption of how the desktop app handles new documents: in current Insider builds Word now creates new documents directly in the cloud (OneDrive by default) with AutoSave enabled from the first keystroke, rather than leaving a new document in an unsaved...

Pure Storage’s latest refresh positions storage not as a passive tier but as an active, orchestrated data plane that enterprises can use to accelerate and govern AI — spanning on‑premises arrays, container platforms, and native public‑cloud services. Background Pure Storage has announced a set...

Microsoft’s consumer Copilot is quietly evolving into a more ChatGPT‑like assistant — one that can remember user preferences and access third‑party files — with a new memory management toggle and the promise of Google Drive as a connected data source for the assistant. Background / Overview...

Windows 11 hides surprisingly effective storage-management tools inside Settings that can reclaim gigabytes without buying new hardware — and three of them alone will resolve most everyday low‑disk warnings: Storage Sense, changing Where new content is saved, and the Cleanup recommendations...

The day-to-day grind of maintaining a sprawling Obsidian vault finally pushed one user to try a different path: they migrated thousands of notes into Joplin, and within weeks declared they weren’t going back — praising Joplin’s genuinely open-source model, straightforward sync options, and...

Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...

Microsoft’s latest back‑to‑school play hands eligible U.S. college students a full, 12‑month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription — including the integrated Copilot AI assistant and 1 TB of OneDrive storage — at no charge, a time‑limited promotional move that accelerates AI exposure on campus...

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

Microsoft Word for Windows has quietly shifted a fundamental assumption of desktop productivity: new documents now default to being created and saved in the cloud with AutoSave enabled from the first keystroke, unless users explicitly change the setting. Background For decades, Microsoft Word...