Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are no longer optional infrastructure — they are the foundation for delivering fast, secure, and resilient experiences across the public web and private applications, and the choices you make about CDN providers in 2026 will materially affect latency, costs, and...
Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure.
Background
The disruption began on...
Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Microsoft Connected Cache (MCC), a built-in Windows feature designed to reduce internet bandwidth usage by storing Microsoft content locally within an enterprise's network. This development marks a significant step forward for...
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network performance
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Managing complex web environments has never been more crucial—or more challenging—than in today’s digital-first businesses. With organizations increasingly leveraging Microsoft Power Pages to support a variety of internal and customer-facing portals, site administrators and makers often find...
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collaboration
contentdeliverynetwork
dashboard
data model
digital business operations
digital transformation
framework migration
it infrastructure
microsoft 365
portal optimization
power pages
ssl certificates
waf
web performance
web security
website management
With Microsoft’s recent rollout of Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) features for Power Pages in the US Government Cloud, the landscape for secure, high-performance web services in the public sector has fundamentally evolved. These new capabilities directly...
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cybersecurity
digital government
fedramp compliance
government cloud
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government websites
it infrastructure
power pages
public sector digitalization
remote government access
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web application firewall
web security
For millions of businesses, educational institutions, and individual users across North America, Microsoft 365 is not just a productivity suite—it is the backbone of daily operations. On May 6th, reports flooded in from across the continent: users suddenly found themselves unable to connect to...
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cloud security
cloud strategy
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contentdeliverynetwork
downtime management
edge computing
it infrastructure
it resilience
microsoft 365
microsoft teams
onedrive
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sharepoint online
tech incident
A wave of disruption echoed across North America this week as users of Microsoft 365 services, including the widely deployed Teams collaboration platform, found themselves grappling with connectivity challenges and widespread accessibility issues. The outage, which persisted for several hours...
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routing
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tech incident
Windows 7 Forums and Windows 8 Forums now support 256-bit SSL encryption on the website. However, this type of encryption will not work for logins and such due to the way our salt/hash/MD5 layer encryption system already works. Images and non-text content will also appear unencrypted, since they...
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chrome
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facebook applications
firefox
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internet explorer
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security
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user experience
web encryption
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