The NFL’s multiyear extension with Microsoft marks a decisive shift: Copilot and Azure AI are no longer pilot projects or back‑office curiosities — they are being embedded across the league’s Sideline Viewing System, scouting workflows, stadium operations, and club business functions in a bid to...
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The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has officially entered an AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced in August upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered tools, expands Azure AI into scouting and operations, and promises richer...
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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...
Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power its Azure Cloud HSM offering — a move that consolidates Marvell’s role across Azure’s key management portfolio and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s brief line about quantum on its earnings call landed like a strategic pivot: Satya Nadella framed quantum as “the next big accelerator in the cloud,” and Microsoft paired that message with a concrete engineering milestone — the operational deployment of a Level 2 quantum capability...
Microsoft’s Q4 earnings were a watershed moment for Azure — the company disclosed that Azure’s annual run rate has topped $75 billion, cloud revenue for the quarter rose to $46.7 billion, and Azure’s year‑over‑year growth accelerated to the high‑30s in the June quarter, while Microsoft’s backlog...
OpenAI’s decision to run ChatGPT and its API on Google Cloud — alongside Microsoft Azure, CoreWeave, and Oracle — marks a decisive shift from single-provider reliance to a multi-cloud infrastructure designed to relieve crushing compute demand, reduce vendor risk, and squeeze performance and cost...
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Bria’s collaboration with Microsoft for Startups has done more than add a logo to a partner page — it has plugged a responsible, developer-first visual generative AI into Azure’s ecosystem, giving startups a practical path to scale image generation, editing, and brand-safe visual pipelines while...
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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 latest push on quantum computing — framed publicly as a quiet technical milestone and privately as a strategic cloud bet — marks a turning point in how hyperscalers plan to deliver exotic accelerators to enterprises and researchers worldwide. Microsoft says it has deployed an...
Satya Nadella’s brief but pointed line on Microsoft’s most recent earnings call — that “the next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum” — arrived with more than rhetoric: it was paired with a technical milestone Microsoft describes as a deployed Level 2 quantum capability and explicit...
Microsoft’s short, strategic line about quantum computing on its fiscal Q4 earnings call landed as more than a slogan — it marked an inflection point that materially reshapes the commercial runway for quantum hardware vendors already integrated with the major cloud platforms, and it places IonQ...
Satya Nadella’s short sentence on Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 call—“The next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum, and I am excited about our progress.”—was both a strategic breadcrumb and a market jolt: paired with Microsoft’s announcement of operational Level 2 quantum capability, it...
Satya Nadella’s short, strategic line on Microsoft’s latest earnings call — that “the next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum” — landed as more than headline rhetoric; it reframed the competitive map for quantum hardware and amplified the market story for one pure‑play company in...
Satya Nadella’s offhand line on Microsoft’s latest earnings call — that “the next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum” — landed like a thunderclap across two markets: cloud infrastructure and the nascent quantum-computing industry. The comment was paired with a concrete milestone from...
Amazon’s cash cow is showing fresh cracks: a once unassailable profit engine is stuttering at the quarter when markets are betting everything on artificial intelligence, and that shift has implications for enterprises, investors, and anyone who depends on cloud infrastructure.
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Cloud professionals starting 2025 with a goal to pick the best cloud platform to learn face a market reshaped by generative AI, massive infrastructure spend, and accelerating multi‑cloud adoption — and the practical answer is nuanced: AWS remains the safest, most versatile entry, Azure is the...
In a dramatic shakeup of the cloud AI landscape, Amazon Web Services announced it will now host OpenAI’s newly unveiled open-weight GPT models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, on both Bedrock and SageMaker platforms. This strategic decision bypasses Microsoft Azure’s long-held exclusive rights to...
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The global cloud computing landscape, once dominated without challenge by Amazon Web Services (AWS), is in the midst of dynamic upheaval. As of 2023, the sector boasted a staggering $597.3 billion valuation—an ecosystem shaped by innovation, raw competitive drive, and now, an arms race in...
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