hybrid cloud

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...

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...

Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by...

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...

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...

Microsoft’s August 2025 hotfixes for Skype for Business Server introduce a security-first change that will force organizations with hybrid deployments to act quickly: a new, customer-managed Dedicated Hybrid Application model replaces the long-standing Microsoft-managed shared service principal...

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...

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...

The UK government’s five‑year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft — the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) — commits public bodies to a scale of procurement that the Crown Commercial Service expects will amount to roughly £9 billion over the life of the deal, and that...

Microsoft is rolling out a targeted update that begins to change how the Xbox PC app behaves on Arm®-based Windows 11 devices, and for the first time Microsoft is letting Insiders download and run more PC titles locally on ARM hardware rather than relying solely on cloud streaming. This shift —...

Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...

Sure’s Channel Islands arm has begun offering Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub as a managed, on‑island hybrid‑cloud service, positioning a locally hosted, Azure‑consistent platform behind 24/7 island support and ISO‑backed controls for customers that must keep data within Channel Islands...

Global cloud capital expenditures are entering a new, accelerated phase: analysts now expect hyperscale providers to push annual data-center CapEx from hundreds of billions into the low‑trillions over the next half decade, led by Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft — a concentrated spending...

Sure’s Channel Islands data-centre arm has added Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub to its managed portfolio, giving local organisations the ability to run Azure-consistent infrastructure-as-a-service workloads inside on-island facilities while keeping data, compliance controls and support physically...

Microsoft’s announcement that it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management arrives at a moment when containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native AI workloads are reshaping enterprise architecture—and Azure’s product playbook for containers is one of the clearest...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53765 describing an information disclosure vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that can allow an authorized local actor to disclose private personal information; Microsoft’s advisory notes the issue specifically affects...