edge computing

Microsoft’s cloud fabric faltered again this week as an Azure outage — traced to instability in Azure Front Door and a regional networking misconfiguration — produced widespread authentication failures and partial service blackouts that affected Microsoft 365, Teams, the Azure and Microsoft 365...

A Microsoft cloud outage knocked large swathes of Microsoft 365, Azure management consoles and even gaming services offline for hours, with users worldwide reporting failed sign‑ins, blank admin portal blades, intermittent 502/504 gateway errors and disrupted Minecraft and Xbox authentication —...

ASUS’s new Amston Lake boards land squarely in the industrial corridor between ultra-low-power efficiency and modern multimedia capability, bringing Intel’s Atom x7000RE family to Windows 11 IoT deployments with soldered SoCs, onboard LPDDR5, and a compact PICO-ITX footprint that’s engineered...

Oracle and Microsoft have announced a formal collaboration to connect Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) with Microsoft Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, promising to push real‑time AI insights from the factory floor directly into enterprise supply‑chain workflows...

Oracle and Microsoft’s joint blueprint promises to pull live shop‑floor signals into enterprise workflows — a practical move toward real‑time supply chain automation that could shorten decision cycles, reduce downtime, and make factory data actionable across Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM. Background...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack was briefly knocked off balance on October 9, 2025, when an Azure Front Door (AFD) capacity failure interrupted sign-ins and access to Microsoft 365 services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, blocking administrators from the Microsoft 365 admin...

Microsoft's cloud productivity stack suffered a major disruption on October 9, 2025, when a cascading outage tied to Azure Front Door (AFD) left thousands of Microsoft 365 users — including those relying on Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, admin portals and even some gaming services — unable to...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...

Userful’s Infinity EdgeAI preview promises to move mission‑critical control rooms, factory floors, and security operations from passive visualization to real‑time cognitive intelligence at the edge, linking anomaly detection to auditable operator workflows and local decisioning. Background...

Userful’s new Infinity EdgeAI preview promises to move mission-critical control rooms and factory floors from passive monitoring to active, on-premises cognitive intelligence by applying containerized AI agents at the edge to detect anomalies, deliver context, and trigger human-in-the-loop...

Userful’s preview of Infinity EdgeAI marks a notable shift in how mission‑critical operations think about edge computing: rather than simply visualizing sensor and camera feeds, the company says the platform will observe, interpret and act at the edge—linking anomalies to source data and...

Lenovo’s latest SMB play is a clear bet that the next phase of enterprise AI will be decided on Main Street, not just in hyperscalers’ data halls — a set of pre-validated, channel-friendly bundles and partnerships that pair Windows Server Hyper-V readiness, Veeam-protected backup appliances, and...

Lenovo’s latest SMB-focused infrastructure bundles promise to simplify on-premises modernization while making AI-ready infrastructure for SMBs more accessible — but the reality for small teams depends on careful trade-offs between convenience, cost, and long-term flexibility. Overview Lenovo...

The conversation around artificial intelligence and work has moved from abstract speculation to hard-edged debate — and a recent poll-driven piece on Windows Central captures that anxiety in stark terms while pointing to concrete research showing which roles are already feeling pressure...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe saw increased latency and degraded performance after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and exposing persistent vulnerabilities...

Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...

SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...

RiverMeadow’s announcement that its Workload Mobility Platform now supports Microsoft Azure Local marks a notable development for enterprises weighing VMware alternatives and planning large-scale cloud migrations. The vendor’s pitch—faster migrations, hybrid on‑premises + Azure management...

Alterego’s demo landed like a mini cultural earthquake: a behind‑the‑ear headset that its founders billed as a “near‑telepathic wearable” — capable of turning the silent motions of speech into typed text, AI queries, and spoken replies — and the internet responded with equal parts awe and alarm...

Microsoft’s IBC 2025 message is unmistakable: media and entertainment companies must move from experimentation to full-scale deployment of agentic AI if they want to become what Microsoft calls a “Frontier Firm” — organizations that combine human creativity with autonomous AI agents to unlock...