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.
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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...
Arkane Studios union members have joined a high-profile call for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, saying the parent company’s cloud and AI services “have no place being accomplice of a genocide,” and aligning their demands with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...
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NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear escalation in the race to move enterprise AI from lab experiments into production-grade, sovereign-ready deployments—an initiative that bundles Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry and Dynamics...
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NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear and ambitious step to turn enterprise AI promise into large-scale production deployments, pairing NTT DATA’s consulting heft with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Agent Service and Copilot capabilities to deliver Agentic...
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NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for the Microsoft Cloud marks a decisive escalation in the company’s long-standing partnership with Microsoft, packaging cloud-native development, security, observability and agentic AI scale-up under one globally coordinated organization...
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NTT DATA has created a dedicated global business unit for the Microsoft Cloud to accelerate enterprise-grade, AI-driven business transformation — a move that consolidates Microsoft-focused sales, delivery, engineering, and industry expertise under a single, AI-first organization intended to move...
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NTT DATA’s new, dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud formalizes a major strategic bet: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI and cloud modernization from pilots into...
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NTT DATA’s move to create a dedicated Microsoft Cloud business unit for the Middle East, Africa and beyond marks a clear strategic bet: concentrate global Microsoft expertise, certifications and delivery muscle under a single, outcome‑focused organization to accelerate cloud modernization and...
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NTT DATA’s new global Microsoft Cloud business unit crystallizes a strategic bet: one of the world’s largest systems integrators is consolidating Microsoft-aligned sales, engineering and delivery into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI from narrow pilots into regulated...
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NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud signals a clear strategic shift: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering resources into a purpose-built organization designed to move enterprise AI from pilots into production at scale while...
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NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud crystallizes a strategic shift: tightly coupling a major systems integrator’s scale with Microsoft’s evolving AI platform to move agentic AI from pilots into regulated, production-grade enterprise deployments at speed and scale.
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NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated Microsoft Cloud business unit marks a clear, calculated bet: accelerate enterprise adoption of cloud-native modernization and scale Agentic AI by pairing NTT DATA’s global delivery footprint with Microsoft’s emerging AI platform stack. This move bundles deep...
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NTT DATA’s launch of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud signals a major acceleration in enterprise digital transformation, promising to reshape how organizations leverage secure, AI-powered solutions for modernization, agility, and growth in a rapidly evolving landscape. As the...
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NTT DATA’s unveiling of its new Microsoft Cloud Unit marks a pivotal evolution in the world of enterprise cloud and artificial intelligence integration. Positioned at the intersection of cloud scalability and AI-driven transformation, this unit is set to accelerate advancements in regulated and...
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