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Data science
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 months agoMet Office 'supercomputing as a service' one year old | Computer Weekly
The Met Office's cloud-based supercomputing system from Microsoft achieved 100% availability for critical workloads over one year, delivering 60 quadrillion calculations per second with comparable latency to on-site infrastructure while offering greater flexibility and cost efficiency.
DevOps
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month agoAzure Local Disconnected looks the part for sovereignty. It isn't. | Computer Weekly
Microsoft's Azure Local 'Disconnected Operations' General Availability announcement masks a controlled-access preview requiring Microsoft approval, validated business need, approved hardware, and enterprise agreements rather than true production-ready availability.
Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
2 months agoOpenAI Is Now Worth More Than Goldman Sachs and Netflix Combined - Here's What That Means
OpenAI's near-$850B valuation and $100B raise would fund compute, talent, international expansion, and R&D, reshaping competition and revenue flows across the AI ecosystem.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechzine Global
5 months agoSchneider Electric launches One Digital Grid Platform for grid management
One Digital Grid Platform modernizes grids with modular planning, operations, asset management, AI-driven outage recovery, hybrid Azure cloud for resilience, reliability, reduced energy costs.
fromTechzine Global
5 months agoAWS, Azure, and Google Cloud under scrutiny by EU after series of outages
The European Commission wants to investigate whether Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud fall under the Digital Markets Act. After large-scale cloud outages, concerns are growing about the dominance of three major players in the cloud market. This is according to Bloomberg, based on sources. The investigation follows several major outages in the cloud sector. Last month, an Amazon services outage affected hundreds of companies.
Miscellaneous
fromBenzinga
6 months agoThe 'Big 3' Tech Playbook: Why Apple, Amazon And Microsoft Keep Winning - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is expected to post steady third-quarter gains powered by strong cloud, advertising, and retail performance. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) are both positioned for solid quarters - Apple benefiting from surging iPhone 17 demand and resilient Services revenue, while Microsoft extends its AI and cloud leadership through accelerating Azure momentum and heavy data center investments.
Apple
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
7 months agoWhile OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them | TechCrunch
Microsoft has deployed its first Azure "AI factory" using thousands of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs and plans to roll out hundreds of thousands globally to run frontier AI workloads.
fromTheregister
7 months agoGoogle points out Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks
Google is like a dog with a bone over Microsoft's cloud licensing policies, not letting Euro regulators forget about what it sees as anti-competitive practices that penalize those wanting to run Windows software on rival cloud platforms. The ad and cloud tech giant says it has been a year since it filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft, and seems frustrated with the progress - or lack of it.
Miscellaneous
Information security
fromComputerWeekly.com
8 months agoMicrosoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations | Computer Weekly
Microsoft is integrating post-quantum cryptography into core services via its Quantum Safe Programme to achieve quantum-safe systems and supply chain readiness by 2029.
fromBusiness Insider
11 months agoLegaltech unicorn Harvey has agreed to spend $150 million on Azure over two years, an internal memo shows
Harvey has committed to a multi-year partnership with Microsoft, allocating $150 million to Azure, a strategic move strengthening their role in the legal tech space.
London startup
European startups
fromTheregister
1 year agoGoogle and AWS: Linux too hard, so customers move to Azure
Companies heavily reliant on Microsoft infrastructure face high costs migrating to competing clouds without switching to Linux.
The shift to Azure is a cost-saving measure, avoiding significant markup charges for Microsoft software on other clouds.
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