Tag: Microsoft

December 4, 2023

Microsoft has been accused of leaving its SME IT supplier partners in the dark over a decision to ban the resale of its cloud services though a newly-launched government procurement framework. More than a week has passed since Computer Weekly […]

October 25, 2023

Large language models and the generative AI tools they power have gained traction in the Microsoft ecosystem. But they aren’t the only drivers of Azure usage and revenue growth. Nadella cited three forces behind increases in enterprise cloud consumption: data […]

October 18, 2023

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provided some further details on the initial scope of its anti-trust investigation into the UK cloud services market, in the wake of Ofcom’s concerns about the stronghold Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft […]

October 6, 2023

Ofcom’s year-long probe into the inner workings of the UK public cloud infrastructure market has concluded with an instruction from the communications regulator for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate the sector further. Ofcom’s work uncovered three types […]

October 5, 2023

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to launch an investigation into the country’s cloud computing market, after a new report from the communications regulator uncovered a number of market features that it said could limit competition among […]

October 4, 2023

Microsoft has officially unveiled the next generation of OneDrive, which is set to bring the cloud storage solution more closely in line with the rest of the company’s offerings, including Microsoft 365 apps like Teams and Outlook. The company is […]

September 27, 2023

Chatbots, administrative assistants and customer-facing automation are three of generative AI’s more immediate applications. Driving cloud business expansion is another clear consequence of the technology and its enterprise adoption. All of the major cloud providers, including Microsoft, AWS and Google […]

September 22, 2023

In line with Oracle co-founder CTO Larry Ellison’s notion that generative AI is one of the most important technological innovations ever, the company at its annual CloudWorld conference released a range of products and updates centered around the next generation […]

September 18, 2023

According to internal emails revealed during the FTC v. Microsoft case, Microsoft has been planning to stream PC games through Xbox Cloud Gaming. As The Verge reports, the internal emails show that the company has been planning on expanding its […]

September 15, 2023

Microsoft will install Oracle Exadata and related database hardware in its Azure data centers as part of an expanded multicloud integration partnership, the two companies announced Thursday. Oracle Database@Azure gives customers access to database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure […]

August 31, 2023

The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon and Microsoft public cloud services. Details about the CPS began emerging late last year with […]

August 29, 2023

ChatGPT’s generative AI domination since its release in late November has led many in the tech industry to predict Microsoft’s current stranglehold on the technology will continue well into the future – and that Microsoft will inevitably be the leader […]

August 28, 2023

Microsoft has killed unlimited storage from its OneDrive business plans, with organisations now limited to just 1TB per user on default configurations. OneDrive for Business (Plan 2) was popular with large organizations that needed a limitless storage capacity to, for […]

August 15, 2023

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board launched an investigation into the security of cloud computing platforms, which follows the state-sponsored hack of Microsoft Exchange Online in July that led to the theft of emails from the U.S. […]

August 10, 2023

The massive and complex healthcare industry is a major front in the battle among hyperscalers to capture new cloud workloads. A vertical that satisfies regulatory compliance, ensures data security and meets other sector-specific IT needs represents one strategy Microsoft has […]

July 31, 2023

Industry verticals revved up Oracle’s cloud business earlier this year, as the cloud provider struggled to compete for market share with the more dominant hyperscalers. Segment revenue for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ballooned by 77% year over year during the three-month […]

July 26, 2023

Researchers warn about a spike in attacks against poorly secured Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Servers by a dual-ransomware gang known as Mallox. Security firm Palo Alto Networks reports a 174% increase in the number of Mallox attacks this year compared to […]

July 24, 2023

Microsoft has denied claims that the Chinese threat actors who recently broke into its systems could have cracked its cloud services as well. The company is standing by its previous assessment that it was only Exchange Online and Outlook.com that […]

July 19, 2023

Google Cloud achieved higher growth on a year-over-year (YoY) basis between 2021 and 2022 than the other top four public cloud firms, Gartner’s latest global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market tracker data shows. The IT analyst giant’s shows while Amazon Web Services […]

July 12, 2023

Microsoft clawed its way back from oblivion by betting big on the cloud rather than focusing on its then-cash cow, Windows. Not only has the company become a big provider of cloud services to enterprises, but it’s also converted as […]