public cloud

Microsoft’s NZ North hyperscale cloud region has moved firmly out of the construction phase and into practical impact — one year after opening it is already underpinning AI pilots, public‑sector modernisation, telco transformation and telehealth services across Aotearoa, while prompting renewed...

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...

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has retooled its development platform with Kainos and Microsoft Azure, turning a slow, paper‑centric modernization programme into a developer‑friendly, AI‑enabled platform engineering practice that the organization says has dramatically reduced service...

ZainTECH and Microsoft’s recent “AI‑Ready Kuwait” summit marks a decisive pivot from aspiration to execution in Kuwait’s digital transformation story, framing local cloud infrastructure, government Copilot rollouts, and an AI‑enabled Microsoft Azure Region as concrete building blocks for Kuwait...

Tata Consultancy Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to jointly research and build components of what both organisations describe as India’s sovereign cloud — a domestic, OpenStack‑based cloud stack aimed at hosting...

The Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has quietly ushered in a new digital era for welfare delivery — combining an AI chat agent, a secure citizen portal and a cloud analytics stack built on Microsoft Azure technologies — a package that Microsoft says now helps roughly 100,000 people a...

Nutanix’s recent announcement — republished by several outlets — that it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure is a noteworthy PR moment for the company and a useful opening to examine how the vendor’s product strategy and market positioning...

The UK government’s five‑year Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) with Microsoft has crystallised into one of the most consequential technology procurement decisions of the decade: roughly £1.9 billion a year in public‑sector software and services, approaching £9 billion across the...

The gravitational pull of the public cloud market is intensifying, with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) all posting impressive year-over-year revenue gains in their latest earnings reports. Yet beneath these headline numbers lies a surprising and...

For municipal governments across the United States, the digital transformation journey has been marked by a complex convergence of accelerating cloud adoption, spiking cybersecurity threats, and ongoing pressures for cost efficiency. Nowhere is this dynamic more pronounced than in local...

The European Commission’s relationship with Microsoft—and the privacy implications of that relationship—has long been a focal point in the debate over public sector reliance on non-European digital giants. This ongoing scrutiny reached a milestone when the European Data Protection Supervisor...

Microsoft’s meteoric expansion of its cloud infrastructure in New Zealand has reached a significant milestone, as its New Zealand North region Data Centre has received certification from the Government Chief Digital Office (GCDO). With this achievement, Microsoft becomes the first global cloud...

Microsoft is once again at the center of a heated controversy, this time facing public and governmental backlash over its use of engineers based in China on projects tied to Pentagon cloud infrastructure. The debate erupted after explosive allegations surfaced, raising questions about how the...

On the morning of July 9th, many Microsoft 365 users suddenly found themselves locked out of Microsoft Teams, the company’s flagship collaboration platform. For organizations that rely on Teams to communicate, manage projects, and keep their distributed workforces synchronized, even a...

In today’s digital era, the demand for robust data sovereignty strategies has moved far beyond niche compliance requirements—geopolitics are now driving subtle and seismic changes in how cloud services are deployed, governed, and consumed worldwide. Microsoft’s evolving suite of sovereign cloud...

In a striking illustration of shifting digital sovereignty priorities across Europe, Lyon, France’s third-largest city, has announced its decisive transition away from Microsoft software, embracing a suite of open-source alternatives in a move set to reverberate throughout the continent’s public...

The narrative arc of cloud computing has evolved dramatically over the last decade. Where public cloud once symbolized agility, scalability, and economies of scale, a new imperative has now arisen on the world stage: sovereignty. Across boardrooms, government chambers, and data centers, IT...

Microsoft’s unveiling of its Comprehensive Sovereign Solutions suite has sent distinct ripples across the European tech landscape, carving a new benchmark for data residency, governance, and digital sovereignty at a time when the stakes for trust, regulatory compliance, and national autonomy...

As data sovereignty rapidly ascends the list of priorities for European enterprises, Microsoft’s newly announced Sovereign Cloud program represents one of the tech industry’s most consequential responses to mounting regulatory, geopolitical, and privacy pressures. With the nuances of digital...

Few developments in European government IT have made as many international waves as the current trend of public institutions ditching Microsoft software in favor of open-source alternatives. This phenomenon, which recently accelerated with high-profile moves by Denmark and Germany’s...