hybrid cloud

Telefónica’s Brazil unit has moved from public-cloud experimentation to a concrete hybrid strategy by adopting Azure Local for on‑premises workloads, using Azure Arc to unify management and planning IaaS-first deployments today with AKS and Azure Virtual Desktop on the roadmap. This marks a...

International Business Machines’ surprising run higher this year — up roughly mid‑40s percent through November 7, 2025 — has become a defining counterpoint to the AI trade dominated by semiconductor darling Nvidia, whose own monster rally has still left it behind IBM on a year‑to‑date percentage...

Infosys’ newly announced AI Agent for the energy sector aims to convert the industry’s sprawling, heterogeneous operational data — from well logs and SCADA telemetry to downhole images and compliance PDFs — into real‑time, conversational guidance for field crews and control‑room teams, packaging...

Infosys’ new AI assistant for energy operations signals a pragmatic push to bring “agentic” AI into safety-critical industrial workflows by combining Infosys Topaz and Cobalt with Microsoft’s Copilot tooling, Azure AI Foundry model hosting (including GPT‑4o family models) and OpenAI capabilities...

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw critical customer-facing systems disrupted on Oct. 29 after a widespread Microsoft Azure outage traced to an Azure Front Door configuration error, forcing airlines to fall back to manual processes and prompting renewed scrutiny of cloud dependency and...

Microsoft’s decision to retire Office Online Server (OOS) by December 31, 2026 redraws the map for on‑premises Office web experiences and pushes enterprises hard toward Microsoft 365 and cloud‑first, AI‑enabled workflows—while simultaneously testing how far Microsoft can extend Copilot into...

Microsoft has quietly opened a conversation with on‑prem Exchange Server administrators about whether they would welcome Copilot-style AI features in locally hosted mail environments — and the survey’s most pointed question makes clear Microsoft is actively exploring hybrid approaches that could...

Microsoft’s latest push to "Copilot all the things" has landed squarely in the laps of Exchange Server administrators: Microsoft has circulated an interest survey asking whether organizations would consider enabling Copilot for Exchange Server (on‑premises) — even if that requires sending some...

IT Researches Ltd’s latest press release positions the company as a one‑stop Microsoft modernization partner — promising turnkey migrations to Microsoft 365 and Office 2024, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 rollouts, SQL Server 2022 data modernisation, and hybrid Azure integrations designed to...

The webinar “HITS in the cloud: elevate your SQL Server strategy with Azure Arc” delivered a practical, business‑focused playbook for modernising SQL Server estates across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments — emphasising unified management, automated compliance, flexible licensing, and...

In a saturated market of vendor announcements and paywalled briefings, the recent press release from Talee Limited positioning Microsoft’s ecosystem as the backbone for “the future of work” is a useful snapshot of how partners are packaging Microsoft technology into business outcomes — but it...

Chyron’s Toolbox 4 represents a pragmatic, production‑focused refresh aimed at closing the gap between everyday PC/web content and live broadcast workflows by adding SDI/NDI capture, Windows 11 compatibility, full HD output, and a more flexible content‑grabber toolset that producers can...

Windows Office Hours on October 16, 2025 will give IT teams a focused, live chat forum to get direct answers from Microsoft product experts about adopting Windows 11, managing fleets with Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager, implementing Zero Trust, and moving toward cloud-native...

Bloomberg’s Managed Systems Engineering team is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer — Windows Services to lead a global effort to modernize and harden the company’s Active Directory (AD) estate, manage the Windows server fleet, and operate identity and access services at massive scale; the role is...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for AI hardware just shifted from “partner-first” pragmatism toward a clear, long-term bet on in‑house silicon — and that matters for every Windows admin, Azure customer, and datacenter architect who pays the GPU bill. At Italian Tech Week, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott...

Microsoft’s public pledge to “have mainly Microsoft silicon in the data center” is not rhetoric — it’s a strategic pivot with clear technical, economic, and competitive consequences for Azure customers, hardware partners, and the AI industry at large. Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s CTO, set the tone...

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...

Principled Technologies’ recent press materials argue that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce measurable gains in performance, manageability, and cost predictability — but those headline claims come with important caveats and require careful validation before...

A recent Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated via a press release and republished across PR channels — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability for many enterprise AI...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...