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Cloud Clients

5 Azure Cost Management Strategies

March 4, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

What Is Azure Cost Management? Azure cost management refers to the practices and processes that organizations implement to monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud spending on the Azure platform. This involves a systematic approach to understanding and controlling the costs […]


Global Cloud

AI server market: cloud giants to command 60% demand in 2024

February 29, 2024

Via: Network World

Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Meta will collectively account for over 60% of global demand for high-end AI servers in 2024, according to a report from Trendforce. Microsoft will account for 20.2% of the demand, followed by Google at 16.6%, AWS […]


Global Cloud

Cloud and AI apps take center stage in .NET 9

February 22, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Just three months into the tenure of .NET 8, it’s already time for Microsoft and the .NET Foundation to start laying out their plans for the next release, .NET 9, which is due to arrive in November with .NET Conf. […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

February 15, 2024

Via: CIO

Microsoft will invest €3.2 billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. The company also wants to train more than 1.2 million people in digital skills. Brad […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft reportedly in discussions with CISPE to remedy ‘unfair’ cloud software licensing practices

February 8, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

Microsoft has reportedly opened discussions with the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body with a view to resolving concerns about how customers that run the tech giant’s online productivity tools on its competitors’ public clouds are charged. […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft, Google build out cloud capacity as AI powers consumption

January 31, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

The trajectory of cloud and AI are tightly intertwined, with each technology driving growth in the other. “Being in the cloud has been very helpful to build AI,” Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said, “but now AI is redefining […]


Global Cloud

Generative AI boosts cloud revenue for Microsoft, Google

January 31, 2024

Via: Computerworld

Microsoft and Google, who saw cloud revenue slow in recent quarters, are reporting a resurgence of growth due to the proliferation of generative AI (genAI). Both companies on Tuesday reported revenue numbers for the final quarter of 2023. “Google Cloud […]


Global Cloud

US-based cloud companies may need to reveal client details

January 29, 2024

Via: Network World

Amid the war for global dominance in the AI era, the US administration is considering making it mandatory for prominent global cloud services providers — such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — to reveal details about the customers developing AI […]


Global Cloud

Oracle has a better generative AI strategy, analysts say

January 23, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Oracle’s recent updates to its OCI Generative AI Service, which competes with similar services from rivals AWS, Microsoft, and Google, makes it more attuned towards the future need of enterprises, analysts say. But Oracle may be far behind rivals in […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft grows EU cloud localization services

January 11, 2024

Via: Network World

Microsoft announced Thursday that it will provide upgraded cloud computing services that keep data within the European Union as part of an effort to comply with stricter overseas privacy regulations. The tech giant’s modifications affect a range of offerings, such […]


Global Cloud

Top 10 cloud stories of 2023

December 20, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

The past 12 months have proven to be a testing time for the hyperscale cloud giants, with many of them reporting uncharacteristically downbeat financial results, bucking the trend of year-on-year double-digit growth rates. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Public cloud service revenue jumps 19%, with Microsoft leading overall: IDC

December 12, 2023

Via: Computerworld

Revenue for public cloud services for companies such as Microsoft, AWS, and Google increased 19% year over year in the first half of 2023 on the back of the increased adoption of AI and organizations’ persistent interest in moving more […]


Global Cloud

Oracle expands cloud footprint with a second region in Chile

December 12, 2023

Via: CIO

Oracle on Wednesday said it is opening a second cloud region in Chile as part of ongoing efforts to expand its global cloud footprint to compete with the larger rivals including AWS, Microsoft, and Google. The second region will be […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft leaves SME resellers in the dark over Cloud Compute 2 framework snub

December 4, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

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 […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft grows cloud business, banks on full-stack AI strategy

October 25, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

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 […]


Global Cloud

CMA sets initial scope of UK cloud market anti-trust probe into AWS and Microsoft

October 18, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

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 […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

October 6, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

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 […]


Global Cloud

UK regulator launches antitrust probe into Microsoft and Amazon cloud services

October 5, 2023

Via: Computerworld

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 […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft unveils the next generation of OneDrive – and it might actually make you like using cloud storage

October 4, 2023

Via: TechRadar

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 […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft advances healthcare cloud strategy, brings generative AI to Mercy

September 27, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

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 […]