multi-cloud

Oracle’s multicloud strategy moved from incremental rollout to visible scale this month as Big Red extended Oracle Database@Google Cloud into new Google regions while continuing a rapid global expansion of Oracle Database@Azure — and, crucially, shipped multiple AI‑centric database services that...

Oracle and Microsoft have moved from guarded cooperation to an operational partnership that promises to speed decision-making across complex logistics networks by placing Oracle‑managed database services inside Azure datacenters and wiring those data planes into Azure’s AI, analytics, and...

A high‑stakes, potentially precedent‑setting legal push against Microsoft over its cloud licensing policies is gathering momentum in the UK: competition lawyer Dr Maria Luisa Stasi is pressing a proposed collective claim worth roughly £2 billion that alleges thousands of UK organisations were...

Dayforce’s move to embed Microsoft’s Copilot tooling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its single‑platform Human Capital Management (HCM) system marks a decisive inflection point for how HR, payroll, and operations teams will use agent-driven automation — promising tighter Microsoft...

Thoughtgreen Technologies’ recent press release positioning its “Thoughtgreen Cloud Services” as a turnkey, multi‑cloud partner for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud marks a familiar — but important — narrative: boutique cloud integrators are packaging engineering depth, security posture...

Tokyo-founded NTT DATA’s appointment as the Public Cloud Manager for the Texas Department of Information Resources marks a consequential step in how one of the nation’s largest states will procure, govern and operate public cloud services across multiple hyperscalers. The engagement — announced...

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...