Amazon’s twin AI moves this week — a headline-grabbing pledge to build supercomputing and classified cloud capacity for U.S. government customers alongside the longer-running multiyear compute relationship between OpenAI and AWS — have reset the narrative around Amazon’s capital intensity...
ZainTECH’s new ExpressRoute listing on the Azure Marketplace marks a practical turning point for Kuwait’s cloud strategy: by packaging private, low‑latency links to Microsoft Azure as a Marketplace SKU, ZainTECH — together with Zain Kuwait, Zain Omantel International (ZOI) and Microsoft — has...
The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly reversed a year‑and‑a‑half‑old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot, approving a pilot rollout that will put Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat into the hands of thousands of House staffers — a move that signals both a major vote of confidence for...
Title: Huawei’s R.I.S.E.: A Calculated Push to Put a Chinese Stamp on the Government Cloud — and Take on Azure, AWS
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At a summit in Shanghai this month, Huawei formally unveiled “R.I.S.E,” a reference architecture for a National Government Cloud designed expressly for public-sector digital...
Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly activated a first-of-its-kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts and linking those looks directly to participating...
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...
Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a managed, year‑long pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot, a dramatic policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban and a consequential test case for how democracies adopt generative AI while trying to...
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a marked reversal from a 2024 prohibition — as leadership frames the move as a pragmatic modernization push that must be matched by strict...
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The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...
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Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have struck a sweeping OneGov agreement that puts Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack — including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure services, Dynamics 365, and security tooling — on preferential terms for federal agencies, with Microsoft and GSA...
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Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a OneGov agreement to deliver steep discounts on Microsoft cloud services for federal agencies — including no‑cost access to Microsoft 365 Copilot for eligible G5 users for up to 12 months — a package GSA and Microsoft say...
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San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...
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Atturra’s latest Microsoft milestone and its sovereign private‑cloud expansion mark a calculated push to capture government and enterprise workloads that hyperscalers can’t — but the claim that it has been named “Microsoft’s first private cloud partner in Australia” requires careful...
Microsoft’s latest expansion of Defender for Cloud into its U.S. Government cloud offerings delivers long‑promised parity for server protection and brings Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to sovereign environments — a practical uplift for agencies that must balance stringent compliance...
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offering is changing the calculus for enterprises that want cutting‑edge generative AI without the legal, security, and operational headaches that have historically kept the technology in research labs. The service packages OpenAI’s top models inside Azure’s...
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Luzerne County, a region in Pennsylvania known more for its rolling hills than its technological ambitions, has taken a notable step into the future of public service management: training employees to responsibly use artificial intelligence. In a move that places the county on the leading edge...
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IronOrbit's recent approval as a Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC) partner marks a significant advancement in their mission to provide secure and compliant cloud solutions tailored for U.S. government agencies and contractors. This designation enables IronOrbit to deliver Microsoft...
For municipal governments across the United States, the digital transformation journey has been marked by a complex convergence of accelerating cloud adoption, spiking cybersecurity threats, and ongoing pressures for cost efficiency. Nowhere is this dynamic more pronounced than in local...
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In recent weeks, the technology industry has been rattled by revelations that Microsoft, the world’s largest software company and a linchpin of US government cloud infrastructure, permitted engineers based in China to provide maintenance and support for American government agencies utilizing its...
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