A new era of cyber resilience for Microsoft 365 has arrived as Rubrik and Sophos announce a landmark partnership designed to redefine how organizations protect, recover, and govern their cloud data assets. By bringing together Rubrik’s advanced data security and recovery capabilities with...
A seismic shift is underway for millions of Microsoft customers worldwide, one that goes far beyond the much-publicized end of Windows 10 support. October 14, 2025, stands as a hard deadline in the tech giant's calendar—not only for its ever-present operating system but also for a suite of...
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Purdue University Northwest (PNW) has announced the implementation of "Sensitive" and "Restricted" labels within Microsoft 365, effective July 25, 2025. This initiative is a significant step in the university's ongoing efforts to enhance data security and compliance by facilitating the approved...
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RiverMeadow Software has recently announced enhanced support for AWS Outposts, enabling organizations to securely migrate and modernize on-premises workloads onto AWS-managed infrastructure. This development addresses the growing need for businesses to transition away from legacy platforms like...
In a recent testimony before the French Senate, Anton Carniaux, Legal Director of Microsoft France, acknowledged that Microsoft cannot guarantee that European user data is immune from access by U.S. authorities, even when stored within the European Union. This admission underscores the complex...
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Cohesity's recent integration of its AI-powered search assistant, Gaia, with Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant advancement in enterprise data accessibility. This collaboration enables users to perform AI-driven searches across archived emails, documents, and spreadsheets directly within...
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Microsoft Purview, a comprehensive data governance and compliance solution, has recently been identified as vulnerable to an elevation of privilege issue, cataloged as CVE-2025-53762. This vulnerability arises from a permissive list of allowed inputs, enabling authorized attackers to escalate...
Cohesity's recent integration of its AI-powered search assistant, Gaia, with Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant advancement in enterprise data accessibility and utilization. This collaboration enables knowledge workers to seamlessly query and extract insights from backup data directly...
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The race to unlock actionable insights from the troves of organizational data has always been fraught with complexity, cost, and risk. Yet with the announcement of Cohesity Gaia’s integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, this paradigm is shifting dramatically, promising to empower enterprises...
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Cohesity's latest move to integrate its AI-powered enterprise search assistant, Gaia, into Microsoft 365 Copilot represents a significant development at the intersection of cloud data security, artificial intelligence, and business productivity tools. As the demands on modern enterprises to both...
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As SQL Server 2016 approaches its end of support on July 14, 2026, organizations running mission-critical workloads on this version find themselves at a pivotal crossroads. The decade-long lifecycle has been marked by reliable performance, rich features, and high adoption, but the looming...
When the worlds of big data analytics and cloud-based AI platforms converge, both opportunities and challenges emerge for enterprises determined to extract maximum value from their ever-expanding digital estates. The collaboration between Microsoft and Databricks—manifesting most recently in the...
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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...
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In the fast-evolving landscape of digital transformation, the capacity to extract actionable insights from vast, distributed data remains a critical differentiator for organizations across industries. For many UK enterprises, finding a trusted partner capable of architecting and executing...
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South Africa’s cyber security landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, spurred by the dual catalysts of escalating digital adoption and a corresponding wave of ever-more sophisticated cyber threats. Ransomware, phishing campaigns, insider attacks, and deeply engineered multi-vector exploits...
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South32, an Australia-based mining and metals company with operations on three continents, faced a formidable challenge not uncommon among enterprise-scale organizations: its most valuable information—data—was fragmented, inconsistent, and often invisible across departments and formats. Tackling...
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In a landscape rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence, organizations face unprecedented challenges in protecting sensitive data while harnessing the power of advanced digital tools. Enterprises pushing deeper into AI realize that their most valuable asset—information—has become more exposed...
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Varonis Systems and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing data security, governance, and compliance for organizations adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This collaboration seeks to integrate Varonis' Data Security Platform with Microsoft's suite of...
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Revolutionizing enterprise content management has long been one of the technology sector’s unsolved challenges, with years of incremental advances unable to resolve the siloed, inefficient, and disjointed experiences so many organizations face. The landmark strategic partnership between M-Files...
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In a rapidly evolving digital landscape shaped increasingly by artificial intelligence, the security of sensitive enterprise data has never been more critical. Varonis Systems, Inc., a recognized leader in data security, has recently announced a landmark strategic partnership with Microsoft...
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