This Is Microsoft’s Azure Power Cloud PC Experience
We first learned about a new virtualization service for enterprise customers that Microsoft is working on earlier this year. Named Cloud PC, this is being built on top of …
Tag: Azure
Microsoft Retains The $10 Billion JEDI Contract
The Force is strong with this one? We have some news from the cloud sphere, and this time it has got to do with the JEDI contract that Microsoft …
Worldwide Public Cloud Services Market Grew 26% In 2019
IDC is here with its latest report that shows that the worldwide pubic cloud services market witnessed a solid growth in 2019, coming in at an increase of 26% …
AI Market Revenue Continues To Grow
IDC is here with its report on worldwide revenue in artificial intelligence, revealing that the market rose this year around 12.3% compared to the numbers in 2019. With this …
Minecraft Migration From AWS To Azure Finally Begins
The move. After nearly six years of relying on AWS to operate, Minecraft is finally making the switch to the Azure cloud platform. The process has actually been going …
Microsoft Will Launch Cloud PC In 2021
The talk of a wholly cloud powered flavor of Windows is not new, the chatter could be heard even before Microsoft launched the modern version of its operating system, …
Microsoft Cuts More Jobs, Azure Impacted
It’s almost tradition now. Microsoft has recently decided to cut more jobs worldwide, as part of a restructuring plan that got underway after a new fiscal year began on …
Microsoft Flight Simulator Closed Beta Begins On July 30
One of the most unique and technologically advanced games set for arrival is Microsoft Flight Simulator, the newest iteration of the long-running flight simulation series. And after nine months …
Bing Maps Begins Switch To TomTom
Took their sweet time with this. But the migration of Microsoft Azure and Bing Maps to the location data provided by TomTom is now officially underway. The two companies …
Risk-Free Ways to Explore SQL Server on Azure
According to a Gartner report published in June 2019, the future of DBMS is the cloud. Moving forward, on-premise database installations should be considered only for special requirements or …
FedEx Announces Major Partnership With Microsoft
FedEx has teamed up with Microsoft on a major partnership focused on improving the end-to-end commerce experience globally, and reinventing the most critical aspects of the experience. Both Azure …
Sony To Use Azure AI System On Its Smart Camera Sensors
Don’t you just love it when rivals sit together on a table? Microsoft and Sony have announced a new partnership focused on the Azure AI system that will see …
Microsoft And Oracle Teamed Up To Fend Off Amazon
The enemy of my enemy is my bro? Something similar transpired between three cloud giants lately, with Oracle turning out to be a secret ally of Microsoft in its …
JEDI Row Turns Ugly As Amazon Blasts Microsoft
Battle of the blogs? The JEDI contract dispute has developed into a war of words between the two tech giants, as Amazon continues to claim that it lost out …
Microsoft Will Give You $100K To Break Into Azure Sphere
That is, if you are a hacker by trade. Azure Sphere is the latest Microsoft platform to go up for the challenge, as the company has set aside a …
New Zealand Getting Its Own Azure Region
Kiwi power! Microsoft is all set to bring an Azure region to New Zealand, bringing local access to cloud services to the country. That is, if it gets permission …
Azure outages were not acknowledged for 5 hours because a manager was asleep
From ZDNet Microsoft has revealed it took five hours to acknowledge lengthy disruptions affecting European customers in late March because the task of informing customers relied on a US-based …
Microsoft explains the Impact of Coronavirus on their Cloud Services Usage
This weekend, Microsoft reported that it has seen an incredible 775 percent increase in the use of its cloud services in places affected by the Corona virus with customers …
Microsoft will prioritize Azure cloud access for first responders and emergency services
Microsoft is planning to prioritize access to its cloud-based Azure services to first responders, emergency services, and critical infrastructure if there are capacity constraints. The company experienced some issues …
Honeywell Creates The Most Powerful Quantum Computer
To date. Last year saw some pretty big developments in the quantum computing space. And this year seems to have started with the same bang. Honeywell is here with …
Cisco Integrates Its IoT Services With Microsoft
Microsoft and Cisco have partnered up on IoT device connectivity solutions, with the two technology giants having announced the seamless integration of their Internet of Things and cloud products. …
Microsoft Keen On Investing In Datacenters In Indonesian
Increasing the footprint. The island nation of Indonesia may be next major destination for Microsoft, as the company is said to be looking to invest in locations in this …
Microsoft All Set For A Datacenter Region In Spain
Microsoft has made official plans to open a datacenter region in Spain, alongside an expansion of its partnership with Telefonica that will enable it to deliver more capabilities from …
Microsoft Ready To Fight Fileless Malware On Linux
Microsoft is ready to bring its fileless malware detection chops to Linux. The company plans to use its expertise in malware to fight against these types of threat on …
Microsoft Azure Sphere Is Officially Here
After years of testing and public previews, the Microsoft Azure Sphere cloud service has finally hit general availability. And it comes alongside a Linux-based microcontroller. We covered this secure …
Cloud Spending Reached $30.2 Billion In Q4
A Canalys report is here with these sky high numbers that show just how lucrative the cloud infrastructure market has become. The analyst firm said that cloud spending topped …
Lition Blockchain Now Deployable On Microsoft Azure
And we have another! Lition, a blockchain designed for enterprises and regulated markets, now has official integration on Microsoft Azure, and is now deployable on that cloud. This makes …
Judge Blocks Microsoft Pentagon Cloud Contract
It was only a matter of time! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the JEDI contract that Microsoft signed with Pentagon last year, in response to a lawsuit filed …
Microsoft, Oracle Bring Cloud Interoperability To Europe
Microsoft and Oracle, working together, who would have thought? The two companies are steadfast competitor with one another, at least the latter has been locked in intense competition with …
US Air Force Finds An Ally In The Sky With Microsoft
Microsoft has joined hands with the US Air Force in order to help deliver IT enhancements to the organization, and help it fully leverage the power of the cloud. …