Atturra’s recent recognition within Microsoft’s partner ecosystem marks a meaningful shift in Australia’s sovereign cloud landscape, but the headline — that Atturra is “Microsoft’s first Private Cloud Solution Partner in Australia” — deserves careful parsing and verification before it becomes an...
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Windows Server 2016 has reached a pivotal point in its lifecycle: mainstream support ended years ago and extended support will stop on January 12, 2027, leaving systems that remain on the platform exposed to unpatched vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and growing compatibility problems. This...
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Atturra’s rise through Microsoft’s partner ranks has been rapid and highly visible, with multiple outlets reporting that the Australian integrator has secured a significant new recognition in the hybrid and private cloud space — a development that, if fully verified, would strengthen its...
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Screenvision Media’s technology team has completed a rapid, strategic modernization of its core systems by moving to a multi‑cloud environment built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a migration executed by long‑time partner Cintra over a concentrated 12‑week window and...
Westcon‑Comstor’s new partner summit, staged with Microsoft and billed as a targeted accelerator for cloud, AI and security adoption, signals a deliberate push to convert channel capacity into continent‑scale transformation for African businesses.
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Westcon‑Comstor has deep roots as a...
Microsoft’s Azure Local is a clear signal that hybrid cloud is no longer a stopgap—it's an operational imperative for many enterprises, and Microsoft has repackaged and extended its Azure Stack HCI lineage into a unified, Azure-native platform designed to run cloud-managed services inside...
The NFL and Microsoft this week turned a decade‑long sideline hardware relationship into an explicit, multiyear push to make generative AI a routine part of game‑day operations — equipping the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface devices, piloting Azure AI Foundry...
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The NFL and Microsoft announced a multiyear extension of their long-running technology partnership that formally moves the league into an AI-first operational phase — bringing Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI services, and an expanded Surface device rollout onto sidelines, into scouting workflows and...
The NFL’s multiyear extension with Microsoft marks a decisive shift: Copilot and Azure AI are no longer pilot projects or back‑office curiosities — they are being embedded across the league’s Sideline Viewing System, scouting workflows, stadium operations, and club business functions in a bid to...
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The NFL’s decision to fold generative AI and Microsoft’s Copilot into its sideline toolkit marks a decisive shift: intelligent assistance is moving from back-office analytics into the heat of game-day decision-making, scouting, and stadium operations in a multiyear expansion of the league’s...
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Microsoft’s decade‑long Surface presence on NFL sidelines has quietly evolved into an AI‑first operational program: the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS) has been upgraded with more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs and integrated Copilot and Azure AI tooling to give coaches, scouts and club...
The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has entered an explicitly AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced on August 20, 2025, brings Copilot-powered assistants to coaches’ Surface tablets, expands Azure cloud infrastructure inside stadiums, and folds generative AI...
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India’s national cybersecurity agency has escalated an urgent warning about a wave of high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities that together pose significant risk to consumers, enterprises, and cloud customers — the advisory links Microsoft’s August security updates (including a publicly...
Manufacturers face a pivotal moment: cloud modernization paired with AI is no longer an optional efficiency play but a strategic imperative that can reshape product lifecycles, R&D velocity, and factory-floor operations at scale, as outlined in a recent industry brief that catalogs major...
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Hitachi Vantara’s entry of Virtual Storage Platform One Software‑Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marks a concrete step toward simplifying hybrid cloud storage procurement and, according to vendor claims, cutting cloud storage costs substantially through...
Hitachi Vantara’s move to list Virtual Storage Platform One Software‑Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace sets a clear marker for how established storage vendors are trying to make hybrid cloud less painful — promising unified management, enterprise data services in...
The era of the Frontier Firm has arrived: organizations that pair intelligence on tap with a modern cloud foundation are already pulling ahead, and the business case for migrating and modernizing on Microsoft Azure is now concrete, measurable, and urgent for leaders who want AI to scale across...
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Microsoft’s latest quarterly report confirms what investors and enterprise customers have been sensing for months: cloud and AI are not just growth drivers — they are the engine reshaping Microsoft’s business and the broader enterprise landscape. In the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025...
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NVIDIA’s decision to host Omniverse Cloud on Microsoft Azure marks a turning point for enterprises that want to build large-scale, secure digital twin and industrial simulation environments without the friction of managing complex, GPU‑heavy infrastructure themselves. The collaboration —...
The five technology companies that now steer global digital transformation—Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Apple, and IBM—are not merely the biggest names on the cap table; they are the engines that power cloud infrastructure, enterprise AI, consumer-device ecosystems, and the earliest...
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