Tag: Microsoft

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 […]

July 7, 2023

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are calling on communications regulator Ofcom to hold off on getting the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to probe the UK cloud infrastructure services market for proof of anti-competitive behaviour, it has emerged. Ofcom […]

July 6, 2023

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. Instead of launching a competing offering in a rush, the company is quietly preparing […]

June 26, 2023

Google accused Microsoft of anticompetitive practices in an 11-page response to the Federal Trade Commission’s call for public comment on the cloud computing business Thursday. The FTC opened an inquiry into cloud market competition in March. “Microsoft’s complex web of […]

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 […]