Israel’s reliance on commercial cloud and AI tools has crossed a new threshold: investigative reporting and follow‑up coverage show the Israeli military’s Unit 8200 used a segregated Microsoft Azure environment to store and process huge volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls, and that AI...
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A small, live‑streamed sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrests and multiple firings has blown open a simmering internal dispute over the company’s government contracts — and crystallized a broader industry reckoning about cloud ethics, sovereign deployments, and the limits...
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Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...
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Microsoft’s decision to terminate four employees after on‑campus protests over the company’s ties to Israel crystallizes a larger, unresolved crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, corporate governance, and worker activism.
Background / Overview
In late August, demonstrators from a...
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Microsoft's candid admission that it “cannot guarantee” European customer data will never be handed to U.S. authorities has turned a long‑standing corporate argument about cloud sovereignty into a live-policy moment — and prompted sharp public ripostes from regional players such as OVHcloud’s...
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Atturra’s announcement that it has secured the Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Partner designation marks a significant addition to its already deep Microsoft credentials and positions the ASX‑listed services firm at the forefront of sovereign, hybrid and on‑premises Microsoft delivery in...
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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
Microsoft’s president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli...
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Atturra’s latest Microsoft milestone and its sovereign private‑cloud expansion mark a calculated push to capture government and enterprise workloads that hyperscalers can’t — but the claim that it has been named “Microsoft’s first private cloud partner in Australia” requires careful...
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Atturra’s recent recognition within Microsoft’s partner ecosystem marks a meaningful shift in Australia’s sovereign cloud landscape, but the headline — that Atturra is “Microsoft’s first Private Cloud Solution Partner in Australia” — deserves careful parsing and verification before it becomes an...
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The U.S. defense establishment has entered an unmistakable pivot: artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental add‑on but a strategic backbone for everything from logistics and predictive maintenance to intelligence analysis and battlefield decision support. This shift—energized by the...
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Atturra’s rise through Microsoft’s partner ranks has been rapid and highly visible, with multiple outlets reporting that the Australian integrator has secured a significant new recognition in the hybrid and private cloud space — a development that, if fully verified, would strengthen its...
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Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted into a high-stakes showdown this month as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed paint on the company sign, and drew law-enforcement intervention — all over one fundamental allegation: that Microsoft Azure has been used at scale by the Israeli...
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Westcon‑Comstor’s new partner summit, staged with Microsoft and billed as a targeted accelerator for cloud, AI and security adoption, signals a deliberate push to convert channel capacity into continent‑scale transformation for African businesses.
Background
Westcon‑Comstor has deep roots as a...
Microsoft’s Azure Local is a clear signal that hybrid cloud is no longer a stopgap—it's an operational imperative for many enterprises, and Microsoft has repackaged and extended its Azure Stack HCI lineage into a unified, Azure-native platform designed to run cloud-managed services inside...
Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...
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Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by...
Microsoft has opened an externally supervised inquiry into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence used a bespoke area of Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse enormous volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a development that escalates a months‑long policy, legal and...
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The era of the Frontier Firm has arrived: organizations that pair intelligence on tap with a modern cloud foundation are already pulling ahead, and the business case for migrating and modernizing on Microsoft Azure is now concrete, measurable, and urgent for leaders who want AI to scale across...
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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...