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Cognizant has agreed to buy 3Cloud, folding a high‑velocity, Azure‑native engineering firm into its Microsoft practice to accelerate enterprise AI readiness and materially expand its Azure capabilities, with the deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2026 subject to regulatory approvals...

Cognizant has agreed to buy 3Cloud, the high‑growth Microsoft Azure specialist, in a deal the companies say will accelerate enterprise AI readiness by combining 3Cloud’s deep Azure, data and AI engineering bench with Cognizant’s global scale and industry go‑to‑market — a move that, if completed...

NCSoft’s BigFire Games has formalized a technology cooperation with Microsoft Korea to build its upcoming open‑world tactical shooter, Cinder City, on an Azure‑centred, AI‑first development stack — a move that aims to accelerate content creation, enhance NPC behavior, and scale global live...

Cognizant’s announced agreement to acquire 3Cloud positions the IT services giant to become a dominant force in Microsoft Azure services and enterprise AI, combining deep engineering talent with a cloud-first, AI-led product and services portfolio designed for large enterprises. Background...

Dynatrace today rolled out a preview of a purpose-built cloud operations solution for Microsoft Azure that stitches its AI-driven observability stack into Azure’s new agentic reliability surface, promising deeper telemetry, automated prevention, remediation, and continuous optimization for...

Cognizant’s agreement to buy 3Cloud marks a decisive move to bulk up Microsoft Azure engineering muscle and accelerate enterprise AI transformation across its client base, bringing a high‑velocity, Azure‑native services firm into Cognizant’s global portfolio and creating one of the largest...

Dynatrace’s latest release expands its AI-driven observability playbook for Microsoft Azure, introducing a preview of a purpose-built cloud operations suite that promises deeper telemetry, automated remediation, continuous cost optimization, and a first-of-its-kind integration with Microsoft’s...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made it unequivocal: even as OpenAI restructures to allow third‑party collaborations, any products that those third parties build and expose via OpenAI’s APIs will be accessible only through Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Background The Microsoft–OpenAI...

Microsoft and Anyscale have quietly moved one of the most important pieces of the AI infrastructure stack — Ray, the Python-native distributed compute engine — from community-managed deployments into a first‑party, managed experience on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), with a private preview that...

NetApp says it won the 2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year award in the ISV/SDC — Canada category, a short Business Wire / Globe and Mail–distributed release that has started circulating in trade feeds — but independent checks of Microsoft’s public winners lists and NetApp’s primary...

Willow’s announcement that it has been named a finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Education Partner of the Year Award spotlights a fast‑moving intersection of Operational AI, cloud platforms and campus sustainability — and it forces practical questions for education IT buyers about governance...

Cloudforce’s claim of being named Microsoft’s 2025 Education Partner of the Year lands as a watershed moment for campus AI — but it also raises the exact questions university IT teams should be asking before they hand a single-vendor orchestration layer control over student, research, and health...

Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on its global streaming strategy in one of the world’s fastest‑growing gaming markets: Xbox Cloud Gaming is now officially live in India, enabling players across the country to stream hundreds of console‑quality titles to devices they already own — from...

Al‑Futtaim Automotive has completed a direct migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA on RISE with SAP, hosted on Microsoft Azure, in a program delivered by IBM Consulting with partner support from SAP, proaxia and SNP — a large‑scale digital core transformation that the companies say consolidated...

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming has finally crossed a major milestone: after months of signals in the service code and scattered tests, cloud stacks tied to Xbox Cloud Gaming have been spotted and activated inside Microsoft’s Indian Azure regions — and public access is now rolling out for Indian...

Avanade’s new suite of Microsoft-powered solutions — anchored by Avanade Accelerated ERP, Avanade Cloud Move, Avanade Intelligent Security Operations and Avanade Intelligent Contact Centre — signals a deliberate pivot from bespoke consulting engagements toward packaged, repeatable products aimed...

The hyperscaler scoreboard that landed after the latest round of earnings is blunt: Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivered a respectable rebound — $33.0 billion in quarterly revenue and roughly 20% year‑over‑year growth — but the momentum picture is dominated by competitors posting faster...

Microsoft Azure’s West Europe cloud region suffered a significant outage on 5 November after a datacenter “thermal event” triggered automated protective shutdowns that took a subset of storage scale units offline, producing degraded performance and service interruptions for a range of platform...

The Server Side’s freshly surfaced AZ-104 practice question set is exactly the kind of focused, scenario‑first material that can sharpen a candidate’s judgment—provided it’s used as a laboratory aid rather than a shortcut to a badge. The collection frames questions as micro case studies, pairs...

The Server Side’s DP‑900 practice set reframes Azure Data Fundamentals preparation as engineering practice rather than trivia memorization: a 10‑week, lab‑first cadence, scenario‑driven Q&A, and a strict remediation loop that turns every failed question into a short sandbox lab and a documented...