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CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure completes three-way hyperscaler DBaaS vision

CockroachDB has launched a serverless, consumption-based distributed SQL database available across major cloud providers, enabling organizations to seamlessly scale, reduce costs, and enhance resilience in their cloud strategies as they transition from legacy systems.

Outage outrage! Why public cloud is putting data and business at risk

Another outage begs the question: isn’t cloud supposed to be the savior of modern agile computing?

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BAE Systems and Microsoft team up to equip digital defense in the cloud

BAE Systems and Microsoft have entered into a strategic partnership which aims to support faster and easier development, deployment and management of digital defense capabilities in an increasingly data centric world.

Viridor energized as Microsoft Dynamics 365 cuts costs by a quarter

Viridor, a UK resource recovery and recycling management services provider, chooses to implement a Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution.

Red Hat OpenShift for Microsoft Azure Government announced

Red Hat has launched Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Microsoft Azure for Government, enabling U.S. agencies to build and deploy applications in a secure, compliant cloud environment tailored for sensitive workloads while enhancing modernization efforts.

Bard for business? Google enters the chatbot game

Google has entered the AI chatbot arena with Bard, an artificial intelligence search tool. What does it mean for enterprise?

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Lifecycle Software dials into Microsoft to enhance mobile systems

Lifecycle Software has partnered with Microsoft to utilize Microsoft Azure for enhanced speed, resilience, and security in its Business Support Systems, enabling telecom operators to provide improved customer services and support growth.

Snowflake announces UK availability on Microsoft Azure

Snowflake has announced its general availability on Microsoft Azure in the UK, driven by high customer demand for local data residency from both the private and public sectors.

Microsoft Azure to power Lakeba marketplace

Microsoft has entered into a strategic partnership with global venture catalyst firm Lakeba to boost the scalability and security of its technology-led businesses.

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UBS takes to the cloud with Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. and UBS have strengthened their cloud capabilities with a partnership expansion, to accelerate UBS’s public cloud footprint over the next five years.

Microsoft taps SAP, artsy AI for Ignite 2022

Microsoft Ignite 2022 kicked off on Wednesday 12th, not with a bang, nor a flash but a zettabyte-sized program of announcements aimed at helping them achieve their goal of empowering their customers to do more with less.

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Oracle and Microsoft team up on database service

Oracle has partnered with Microsoft to give Azure customers direct, streamlined access to Oracle databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure which is now readily available.

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Microsoft blows life into wind farm digital twins

Microsoft, SSE Renewables and Avanade have teamed up to create digital twins of offshore windfarms that use real-time data to understand the effect turbines have on local wildlife and ecosystems.

Kraft Heinz and Microsoft join forces to accelerate supply chain transformation

The Kraft Heinz Company (Kraft Heinz) and Microsoft are joining forces to develop solutions designed to accelerate the consumer goods giant’s transformation and enable a more resilient supply chain.

Cloud healthcare and the data state of play

Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.

Microsoft in rude health with Azure and AI boost

Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.

Ukraine needs more than just ‘flag washing’ from Big Tech

ERP Today asks why the Big Tech brigade hasn’t put its money where its mouth is and shut off current services to their Russian client base.

Nationwide moves website to Microsoft Azure

Nationwide Building Society has migrated its member website to Microsoft Azure to enhance security, reliability, and accessibility while modernizing the user experience and preparing for future innovation.

Why multi-cloud is the New Normal

Not long ago the IT landscape of an enterprise was a simple affair: one or a few data centres, usually determined by location requirements, would create a system landscape that every IT person with 10 or more year’s work experience grew up with. Fast forward to the 2010s and the landscape was characterised by duality – meaning that the data centres were still there – and a few workloads in the cloud, most likely a single cloud.

The cloud goes Vertical

The backdrop – commercial elasticity and the demand for workloads. The cloud has been one of, if not the, most transformative IT innovations in the short history of the IT discipline. The ability to convert CAPEX into OPEX has an irresistible lure to enterprises in a pandemic world more than ever.

OpenText gets pumped for SAP RISE

OpenText showcased its data management tools at SAP’s Sapphire NOW conference, emphasizing their role as SAP Solution Extensions that facilitate cloud migration and enhance productivity alongside SAP's RISE initiative.

Survival strategies in a hybrid and multi-cloud world

There is no question anymore that technology progress has overtaken the technology demands of business best practices, creating the current need for experimentation and exploration of how to operate a business in the 21st century...

Is private equity ‘dry powder’ going to ignite the SAP market?

The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting global lockdown have caused a sudden and sharp...

Creating an agile enterprise requires flexibility and choice

IT leaders who can simplify operations and run workloads from optimal locations will make IT...

COVID stress test demonstrates resilience in software values

M&A activity is set to play a key role in the enterprise tech sector as strategic alliances, opportune acquisitions and distressed sales bolster the ERP market. It used to be the case that it was only when the tide went out that you could see who was swimming naked...