hybrid cloud

Dell and Microsoft used the Microsoft Ignite stage to push a single, business‑critical message: cyber resilience must move from a checkbox to an operational practice, and the fastest route there is tighter product integration, automated recovery workflows, and cloud‑native protection that treats...

Nutanix has announced that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in hybrid environments — allowing organisations to host AVD session hosts on-premises on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor while using Azure’s control plane for brokering, management and security...

Nutanix’s announcement at Microsoft Ignite that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in hybrid environments marks a deliberate push to give enterprises a true choice between cloud-first and on‑premises virtual desktop deployments—letting organisations run...

Nutanix and Microsoft have taken a significant step toward a more flexible, partner-driven VDI landscape by announcing that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, enabling organizations to run AVD session hosts on-premises on Nutanix AHV...

Pure Storage and Microsoft have announced a tighter set of integrations and co-engineered services designed to make migrations to Azure less risky and more cost‑predictable—extending Pure Storage storage into Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and Azure Local, integrating FlashArray with Azure local...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI not just a productivity feature but an operational platform rests on a simple premise: if agents are going to do real work, enterprises need a managed, auditable, and governable place to build, test, run and secure them — and Copilot Studio is that place...

Dell Technologies and Microsoft have taken their Azure collaboration to the next level, announcing a coordinated set of hybrid and multicloud solutions that combine Dell’s APEX and PowerScale storage portfolio with Microsoft Azure-native controls, expanded data protection services, and a...

Nutanix’s recent headlines — widely circulated as the company “expanding Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop flexibility across hybrid cloud” — are an important signal for enterprise desktop virtualization, but they must be read with care: the vendor’s public materials confirm a broad push to make...

VAST Data’s announcement that its VAST AI Operating System will be available to Microsoft Azure customers signals a notable escalation in the race to provide purpose‑built infrastructure for agentic AI — the class of autonomous, goal‑oriented systems enterprises are now trying to operationalize...

I used to think total self‑sufficiency was the point: run everything on my hardware, behind my firewall, and never rely on a corporation again. After years of running a home lab, dozens of self‑hosted services, and a few expensive mistakes, the reality I live with now is more pragmatic — a...

The cloud-migration calculus in 2025 is no longer a straight feature‑for‑feature tally; it’s a strategic choice that folds in existing software estates, regulatory constraints, data gravity, AI ambitions, and long-term vendor economics. The BigNewsNetwork primer the team supplied frames the...

Huawei Cloud’s rise to the top of GlobalData’s carrier-grade hybrid cloud ranking for Sub‑Saharan Africa marks a significant shift in the region’s cloud landscape, with vendor strengths, market dynamics and geopolitical risks converging to reshape how African telcos build resilient, sovereign...

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...