multi-cloud

Oracle’s multi‑cloud push has moved from a defensive interoperability play to a full‑blown growth narrative that is already reshaping how enterprises, hyperscalers and investors think about cloud infrastructure and database strategy. The company’s recent investor disclosures, high‑profile...

Oracle and Microsoft’s multicloud marriage just took another step into the Middle East: Oracle Database@Azure is now available in the United Arab Emirates, bringing Oracle-managed database services into Azure’s UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) and UAE North (Dubai) regions and giving customers local...

Cloud hosting has evolved from a convenience to a strategic imperative, and the top U.S. providers shaping enterprise IT strategies in 2025 combine scale, specialized services for AI and data, and increasingly sophisticated cost and sustainability commitments. The short list assembled by...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a decades‑old database vendor can become when it aggressively pivots into AI infrastructure and multicloud operations. In Q1 of fiscal 2026 Oracle reported a staggering $455 billion in Remaining...

Google’s decision to keep the pressure on Microsoft over cloud licensing turned into a public reminder this week that the fight over how Windows and SQL Server licenses move into the cloud is far from settled—and that regulators, competitors and customers are still picking through the...

ProsperOps has been named a winner of the 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category, a recognition that spotlights the company’s expansion from autonomous discount management into synchronized workload scheduling and outcome-driven FinOps automation. Background ProsperOps launched in...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study circulating as a press release this week argues that deploying a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) AI application entirely on Microsoft Azure — instead of splitting model hosting and search/compute across providers — can materially improve latency...

Principled Technologies’ recent hands‑on evaluation argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI — specifically running an end‑to‑end retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) application entirely on Microsoft Azure — can yield measurable gains in performance, cost predictability, and...

Orange County’s IT shop has opened a formal conversation about moving major workloads off Microsoft Azure, issuing a Request for Information (RFI) that explicitly asks the market how to migrate applications, virtual machines, storage, databases and networking from Azure to another cloud — a move...

Principled Technologies’ recent hands‑on evaluation argues that a focused, single‑cloud strategy on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable advantages for many AI workloads—faster time‑to‑value, lower end‑to‑end latency, more predictable three‑year TCO, and simplified governance—while repeatedly...

Principled Technologies’ recent press materials argue that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce measurable gains in performance, manageability, and cost predictability — but those headline claims come with important caveats and require careful validation before...

A recent Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated via a press release and republished across PR channels — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability for many enterprise AI...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study—distributed as a press release via EIN Presswire and reported on partner channels—claims that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost for enterprise AI projects...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

Nvidia’s repositioning of DGX Cloud has reshuffled the AI infrastructure chessboard: what looked like a direct cloud play has been quietly repurposed into a strategic mix of internal R&D capacity and an external orchestration layer (DGX Cloud Lepton) that routes developer demand through partners...

Oracle's blockbuster first-quarter numbers and multibillion-dollar AI deals have rewritten the narrative: a company long pigeonholed as a database vendor is now positioning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference — with management...

Microsoft’s Fabric platform just widened its berth for enterprise data: Fabric now supports mirroring from Oracle and Google BigQuery into OneLake, and it adds a native graph database built on technology from LinkedIn to model relationships at scale. The mirroring capability creates a Delta...

Oracle’s latest quarter rewrote expectations: a $455 billion remaining‑performance‑obligations backlog, an audacious five‑year revenue roadmap for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that culminates at $144 billion by fiscal 2030, and a wave of multibillion‑dollar customer commitments sent the...