hybrid cloud

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...

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...