Tag: Microsoft

June 23, 2023

European enterprises and public sector organisations are spending billions of pounds extra each year for the privilege of running software they own in the Microsoft Azure public cloud, suggests research published by non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE). […]

June 21, 2023

Google is a junior member of the hyperscaler club. The tech giant’s 10% share of the $63 billion global cloud market trails that of Microsoft and AWS, at 23% and 32% respectively, according to Synergy Research Group’s April report on […]

June 5, 2023

A Microsoft Azure DevOps outage in the South Brazil Region, which lasted over 10 hours, was caused thanks to a typo in the code that saw 17 production databases deleted. Having apologized to impacted customers for the outage, Microsoft has […]

May 23, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the arrival of large language AI models like GPT-4 as “a Mosaic moment,” comparable to the arrival of the first graphical web browser. Unlike that original Mosaic moment, when Microsoft was late to the browser […]

May 17, 2023

Financially motivated threat actor UNC3944 is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to take over Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access to virtual machines (VM), according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant. Using access to virtual machines the attackers employed malicious […]

May 16, 2023

Competition for government contracts is not new to cloud, but it has become more heated as technology needs evolve. After the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Microsoft a $10-billion contract to provide cloud services to U.S. military in 2019, Amazon […]

May 15, 2023

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm is leveraging its market power to squeeze out rivals. As part of an informal probe, regulators are quizzing competitors and […]

May 8, 2023

Microsoft’s decision to make Kubernetes a foundational service in Azure is paying off, not only for Microsoft but also for the rest of the Kubernetes ecosystem. That’s because the company is investing its engineers and money in more than its […]

May 8, 2023

As the race to deploy enterprise-grade generative AI moves forward, the three hyperscalers — AWS, Microsoft and Google — are providing glimpses of how large language models and the tools they enable are reshaping infrastructure. Running generative AI at scale […]

May 1, 2023

The big three cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google) all reported earnings last week, and the word on every cloud executive’s lips was optimization. To wit, “Customers continue to evaluate ways to optimize their cloud spending in response to these tough […]

April 26, 2023

Cloud continued to drive revenue for Microsoft, even as generative AI advances did more to boost the company’s profile during the first three months of the year. Overall revenues grew by 7% year over year. Microsoft’s reported only modest year-over-year […]

April 26, 2023

Google is racing to deliver generative AI tools following Microsoft’s successful partnership with OpenAI. Google is building out AI priorities outlined in its February earnings call, including plans to develop large language models, empowering developers with tools and enabling organizations […]

April 20, 2023

Retail organizations face an urgent need to accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to economic insecurity, persistent inflation, and growing consumer price sensitivity. Consumer product goods manufacturers (CPGs) and physical and online retail stores need to increase investments in strategic […]

April 12, 2023

Though three-quarters of U.S. employers now offer hybrid work, some retailers have been slow to embrace emerging hybrid work models, even for corporate employees. We spoke with Ashok Krish, Global Head of Digital Workplace at TCS, about how hybrid work […]

April 6, 2023

A senior Microsoft executive has laid out why benchmarking cloud PCs is an incredibly tricky process that, in many cases, just isn’t possible. In a recent blog post(opens in new tab), Microsoft Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop […]

April 6, 2023

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country’s digital regulator said the firms may be abusing their market power to thwart fair competition. Ofcom said Wednesday it had found […]

April 6, 2023

Market consolidation among the hyperscalers has raised concerns over cost, competition and security among cloud users and government regulators. AWS and Microsoft command a combined 60% to 70% of the U.K. market, Ofcom said, citing its analysis of data it […]

March 30, 2023

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to change its cloud computing practices in order to avoid an antitrust probe from the European Commission, the EU’s antitrust authority. The potential probe relates to complaints made by European cloud companies including Aruba, OVHcloud, Danish […]

March 24, 2023

Now, more than ever, global businesses have an opportunity. With people and infrastructure touching every point on the planet — and new technology empowering us to radically change the way we consume resources — we can lead the world toward […]

February 23, 2023

As of April 11, 2023, Microsoft will stop supporting Office 2013. The decision to end support for Office 2013 should come as no surprise. Over the past several years, Microsoft has been slowly ending support for its one-time purchase products […]