hybrid cloud

Microsoft’s cloud-first posture is unmistakable, but the story of on‑premises Microsoft services is not over: companies can — and in many cases must — continue to run core Microsoft platforms in their own datacenters, provided they understand the tradeoffs around licensing, lifecycle, and...

Microsoft opened TechEd North America 2012 in Orlando with a clear message: the company was no longer merely tolerating the cloud — it intended to own the platform narrative. Satya Nadella used the keynote to place Windows at the center of that strategy by dubbing it the Cloud OS, while...

Virtualisation remains the quiet engine of enterprise IT in 2026: despite cloud and containers grabbing headlines, organisations still rely on hypervisors and VM platforms to deliver predictable performance, isolate workloads, and bridge the on‑premises / public cloud gap—and the latest ET CIO...

Marlink’s decision to integrate Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute into its managed maritime network stack is a pragmatic — and potentially game-changing — move for vessel operators and remote-site enterprises that rely on satellite and hybrid connectivity to reach cloud services reliably. The...

Sabenza IT & Recruitment’s listing for an IT Infrastructure Manager in Cape Town is a clear signal: organisations across the Global South are now recruiting senior technical leaders who can own complex hybrid environments and translate on-premises realism into resilient cloud-first operations...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI are joining Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team’s engineering stack in a multi‑year deal that places Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365 and Kubernetes at the heart of the W17 programme as the Brackley outfit prepares for Formula 1’s 2026 technical reset. Background The announcement...

British telecom giant BT will begin offering Microsoft Azure services to its customers, packaging Azure into BT’s managed-cloud portfolio so customers can buy Azure alongside BT cloud services with a single commercial wrapper and a single bill. Background / Overview BT’s announcement — first...

Microsoft’s pitch that a “free cloud migration assessment” makes hybrid cloud easier to sell to enterprises is not new — but the story behind the offer matters more than the headline. What began as a simple assessment tool has grown into a full-stack commercial and technical funnel that pairs...

IP Fabric’s January release and Microsoft’s January 2026 lifecycle moves landed in the same week, but they point in opposite operational directions: one vendor is adding deeper visibility to tame hybrid, multi‑cloud complexity, while another has finally closed the book on a long‑running Windows...

IP Fabric’s latest update promises to remove a long-standing blind spot for hybrid teams by deepening native visibility into Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) constructs—adding Azure Firewall, Private Link and Private Endpoint context, multi‑project GCP discovery, and improved...

Microsoft’s engineering rhythm rarely produces big-bang surprises; instead, the company advances in a steady cadence of focused improvements across developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise modernization services — a pattern that’s visible in three recent pieces of...

Microsoft’s Azure Local brings the Azure management plane to customer-owned hardware, promising cloud-like APIs and services in your data center — but it’s not a substitute for the public cloud’s scale and elasticity. This article explains what Azure Local delivers, what it intentionally does...

Microsoft's third Technical Preview of Azure Stack (TP3) arrives as the last major pre‑GA milestone, bringing a wider slice of Azure's IaaS and PaaS surface to on‑premises environments, a clearer pay‑as‑you‑use model for local consumption, and practical refinements for disconnected and edge...

Microsoft Azure has quietly become the default backbone for enterprise IT, and by 2026 the platform’s role in cloud computing, AI, and hybrid infrastructure is the primary reason demand for Azure skills and services is higher than ever. The shift away from on-premises hardware toward elastic...

Cerence, NVIDIA, and Microsoft have taken a decisive step to put large language models and cloud-accelerated AI at the center of the next-generation in-car experience, with Cerence’s hybrid agentic platform, Cerence xUI, now optimized to run on NVIDIA AI Enterprise and deployed on Microsoft...

Cerence’s xUI platform is gaining real momentum: the hybrid, agentic in‑car assistant now ships with production integrations that lean on NVIDIA AI Enterprise for model performance and optimizations and on Microsoft Azure for cloud-hosted services and distribution — a stack that Cerence says is...

Samsung’s CES push makes clear that AI is no longer a feature add‑on for appliances and displays — it’s the connective tissue Samsung expects to bind TVs, fridges, vacuums, cars and health services into a single, conversational ecosystem built around a new Vision AI strategy. Background /...

Coforge’s new EvolveOps.AI promises to bring “Agentic AI” to the heart of enterprise IT operations, packaging a hybrid-cloud, open‑source stack of fine‑tuned small language models, deterministic decision engines, and 28 prebuilt agent personas to automate incident response, infrastructure...

Cancom SE is quietly reshaping its identity from a classic German systems integrator into a repeatable, Microsoft‑centric hybrid cloud and managed‑services operator — a shift that matters because Europe’s mid‑market now prizes sustained uptime, security and FinOps as much as cloud-native...

Microsoft’s Azure has quietly moved from infrastructure runner-up to the fulcrum of Microsoft’s AI and cloud strategy — and that shift matters for enterprises, CIOs, and investors because Azure is now where Microsoft converts AI demand into recurring, high‑margin revenue. Background / Overview...