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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...

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...

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...

Microsoft employees have erected a sustained sit‑in on the company’s Redmond campus, transforming a simmering internal dispute over Israel‑linked contracts into a high‑visibility standoff that raises fundamental questions about cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits of vendor...

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...

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...

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...

The UAE has quietly repositioned artificial intelligence from a technocratic experiment to a central pillar of its post‑oil economic strategy, coupling bold national targets with deep public‑private partnerships and large‑scale skilling efforts designed to seed an AI‑ready workforce across...

Microsoft has opened a formal, externally supervised review into allegations that its Azure cloud was used to store and process vast quantities of intercepted Palestinian communications — a probe that elevates a months‑long ethics and policy crisis inside the company into an urgent legal...

Arkane Studios’ Lyon-based union has publicly joined calls for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, putting one of the games industry’s most respected studios at the center of a widening debate about cloud providers, AI, corporate responsibility, and the ethics of doing business in...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...