Microsoft’s announcement that it has signed a new five‑year Volume Sourcing Arrangement (VSA) with the Commonwealth marks an unmistakable bid to accelerate the next phase of Australia’s digital government — promising simplified procurement, volume pricing, security assurances and a structured...
Burges Salmon’s Digital Enablement Programme has entered a decisive new phase: the firm has embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot as a firm‑wide foundation and — following a structured trial — selected the legal‑focused generative AI platform Harvey for matter‑specific workflows. The announcement...
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Origin Digital’s announcement that it has earned Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization for AI Platform on Microsoft Azure marks a clear signal: the company has passed Microsoft’s audit gates and is positioning itself as a validated partner for production‑grade AI work on Azure, promising customers...
Microsoft Thailand’s announcement that it, together with the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) and SCB Academy, has launched the Hour of AI under the Microsoft Elevate umbrella marks a concerted push to move Thai students and teachers from passive AI users toward responsible AI creators —...
In a pragmatic, people-first conversation that grounds AI adoption in measurable business outcomes, Carlin Power — JLL’s Head of AI Product Engagement — lays out a clear playbook for taking AI from curiosity to scale: inspire experimentation, connect every initiative to measurable business...
Mukta Arya’s message is simple and urgent: human resources must marry data with intuition as artificial intelligence reshapes hiring, learning and workforce planning — not by handing judgment to algorithms, but by using models to surface signals that humans translate into context-rich decisions...
Microsoft’s latest expansion of the Azure AI platform is another clear signal that the company is aggressively bundling machine learning, data analytics, and enterprise governance into a single cloud-first toolkit aimed at speeding adoption while lowering operational friction for IT and data...
The Server Side’s recent roundup of sample AI‑102 practice questions and the market around third‑party exam materials delivers a useful, candid snapshot: the AI‑102 (Azure AI Engineer Associate) exam tests applied, operational skills across Azure’s AI stack, and while reputable practice exams...
AI sits in the meeting now — not as a spectator but as an active participant: taking notes, stitching threads together, translating voices in real time, and nudging teams toward agreed actions — and that shift is forcing enterprises to move from experimentation to formal accountability. Over the...
MTN’s migration of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure represents a decisive step in telco cloud modernisation: a move that promises faster analytics, broader scale, and tighter integration of AI into customer and operational workflows, while also resurfacing...
MTN’s migration of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure completes a pivotal step in the operator’s multi-year digital transformation, delivering a cloud-native analytics backbone that the company says processes tens of billions of records daily, supports real‑time...
MTN has migrated its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform to Microsoft Azure, unveiling a cloud-native EVA 3.0 that the operator says now runs on Azure Databricks, is protected by Microsoft Defender, and processes roughly 22 billion records per day across more than 800 analytics workflows...
Microsoft’s commercial chief is urging organisations to “demand more of AI” — not as a marketing slogan but as a call to reshape how companies build products, run factories and design customer experiences. In a wide‑ranging message that frames Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack as the backbone for...
Microsoft’s role‑based AI certification and the market around it have collided into a single, noisy debate: legitimate, scenario‑driven preparation on one side; fast, high‑risk “exam dump” shortcuts on the other—and the Server Side coverage of Microsoft AI Engineer practice materials lays that...
Over the past several months the conversation around preparing for the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate credential has crystallized into two clear themes: practical, vendor-aligned study that builds durable skill, and a parallel market for fast, high‑yield exam materials that...
The University of Lincoln has taken a decisive step into the next phase of campus-wide artificial intelligence, announcing a strategic deployment of Cloudforce’s nebulaONE® platform in partnership with Microsoft to expand and standardise AI tools for students, academics, and professional...
Microsoft’s new Agent Framework and the expanded Azure AI Foundry mark a decisive push to make agentic AI practical for enterprise development, deployment, and governance — but the move raises equally important questions about operational complexity, observability, and risk management. The...
Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to ingest, store and analyze large...
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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...
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Kathleen Mitford told a packed IBC audience that the media industry’s survival depends on treating AI not as an optional experiment but as a core capability — a “frontier” set of tools that, when combined with human creativity, can reshape how stories are produced, distributed and monetised...
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