cost management

ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Microsoft Azure has moved out of early access into general availability, bringing the company’s multi‑cloud rate‑optimization automation to Azure customers at scale. The release promises automated management of Azure Reservations and Savings...

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 has quietly moved Copilot from a separate app and demo stage into the daily work surface: a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat sidebar is now rolling out inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, giving Microsoft 365 users a free, in‑app conversational assistant while...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...

Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...

Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...

Azure Arc is becoming the practical replacement many enterprises need after Microsoft signaled the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and for organizations that want to centralize patching across on-premises servers and Azure VMs the recommended route is to Arc‑enable servers...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 has landed inside Microsoft’s Copilot family, but the change feels more like a careful upgrade than a dramatic reinvention — a set of real-world refinements that tilt Copilot toward deeper reasoning, longer context, and smarter routing rather than a radical, immediately...

Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has secured the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, a certification that positions the vendor squarely within Microsoft’s commercial ecosystem and signals that its SaaS planning suite has met a defined set of technical...

Microsoft's decision to collapse volume-based price bands for Online Services under Enterprise Agreements into a single, web‑published price is a major commercial shift that will simplify licensing but almost certainly raise bills for many organizations — and reshape how enterprises, partners...

Microsoft has recently announced the comprehensive integration of OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-5, across its entire product ecosystem. This strategic move aims to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft's AI-driven tools, including Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure AI Foundry, by...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is live—and Microsoft has switched on the new model across its Copilot stack, from Microsoft 365 Copilot and the consumer Copilot to GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry, with Perplexity also lighting it up for its Max and Pro tiers (including the Comet AI browser). (openai.com...

Microsoft’s latest unveiling of Azure Storage Discovery in public preview has captured the attention of IT professionals and cloud architects alike. Promising an unprecedented approach to visibility over sprawling Blob Storage deployments, this tool, now available to all Azure users, marks a...

Microsoft Purview, integrated within the Microsoft 365 suite, offers in-house legal teams a centralized platform for managing legal holds and eDiscovery processes. Its seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure and the potential cost savings compared to third-party tools make it an...

Microsoft's strategic pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a significant restructuring of its workforce, characterized by substantial investments in AI talent and concurrent layoffs in other sectors. This dual approach underscores the company's commitment to leading the AI...

Microsoft’s Security Copilot is fundamentally reshaping the way enterprise IT manages, secures, and reports on endpoints by bringing cutting-edge generative AI directly into the heart of the Intune admin center and Surface Management Portal. This move, recently made generally available, marks a...

Few events in today’s enterprise IT landscape are as loaded with expectation and anxiety as a cloud migration. Yet for many organizations, the move to Microsoft Azure is not a dramatic, overnight transformation, but a nuanced, multi-stage journey—one that stretches far beyond technical rehosting...

OpenAI's recent decision to rent Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to power ChatGPT and other AI products marks a significant shift in the AI infrastructure landscape. This move not only diversifies OpenAI's hardware dependencies but also sends a clear signal to Microsoft, its largest...

In a decisive shift reflecting the evolving landscape of digital workplace tools and organizational cost management, Vanderbilt Health is implementing a major change for thousands of its employees regarding how they will access Microsoft 365 Office applications. Effective July 1, most staff...