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A new trend is rapidly emerging among mid-market enterprises: the strategic shift away from complete reliance on public cloud platforms. As organizations face mounting pressures around performance, compliance, sovereignty, and risk, a significant wave of “cloud repatriation” is underway. Rather...

Across modern enterprise IT, the accelerating shift to hybrid and cloud environments has thrown a sharp spotlight on a long-standing security conundrum: how to manage identity and access not just for human users, but for the multitude of non-human workloads—applications, services, scripts, and...

Microsoft's recent integration of transactional databases into its Fabric analytics platform marks a significant evolution in data management and analytics. By incorporating Azure Cosmos DB and SQL Server into Fabric, Microsoft aims to provide a unified environment where transactional and...

In a significant advancement for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a deepened collaboration that has resulted in a remarkable 40-fold increase in AI processing speeds within Microsoft's Azure platform. This leap is primarily attributed to the...

The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" SoC, featuring the Radeon 8060S integrated GPU, has recently been subjected to comprehensive performance evaluations comparing Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 25.04. These tests, conducted on the HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop, reveal that Ubuntu 25.04 not...

In a significant move that underscores just how dramatically Microsoft has transformed its corporate stance over the past two decades, the company recently unveiled a new Linux distribution service as part of its Azure cloud platform. The announcement, which may elicit disbelief from those who...

Small businesses and edge deployments have long sought a combination of performance, cost-effectiveness, and robust security in their server solutions. AMD's unveiling of the Zen 5-based EPYC 4005-series processors represents a distinct leap forward for these market segments, not only because of...

The recent investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into cloud market competitiveness has brought to light a critical challenge enterprises face when moving from traditional on-premises environments to cloud infrastructure: the complexity and expense of migrating...

AWS continues to redefine cloud resource management, and its latest enhancements to EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) are proof of that commitment. The new split, move, and modify functionalities are designed to offer users greater agility in managing reserved capacity—a boon for...

In the new world of work, advanced professions increasingly require high-performance computing capabilities. We’re working to ensure Windows meets your needs, even in demanding and mission-critical scenarios, which is why we Link Removed in August. For data scientists transforming big data into...

Microsoft is apparently working on a 'high end' version of Windows 10 for work stations and the like.. Reference

Link Removed, Michael Greene and Tiander Turpijn are back for Part 3 in our “Automation and DevOps” series and in today’s episode that give us an overview of PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) and how it is relevant in a hybrid cloud scenario for on-premises and Microsoft Azure or in a...

There is no denying that when it comes time to benchmark your new computer, programs by Futuremark top the list. Gamers are usually interested in the 3DMark line, but for an overall system benchmark there is PCMark. Today, Futuremark is announcing PCMark 7 which is designed just for Windows 7...