Microsoft’s close partnership with OpenAI has been a major factor in its recent growth. Exclusive access to OpenAI’s models has boosted Azure’s performance and helped lift Microsoft’s market value to nearly $4 trillion. For the April-June quarter, Azure revenue is expected to rise 34.8%, matching Microsoft’s own forecast and slightly ahead of the previous quarter’s […]
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As organisations worldwide continue to grapple with an ever-expanding threat landscape, understanding the current cybersecurity trends has never been more crucial. Ahead of Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe, Bernard Montel, EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist at Tenable, shed light on the shifts in cybersecurity over the past five years and offers valuable insights […]
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A single Google search requires half a millilitre of water, while ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres for every five to 50 prompts. Multiply these figures by billions of daily interactions, add streaming services and cloud storage, and the result is staggering: data centre water consumption has reached crisis levels, with some facilities using more water annually than entire cities. This […]
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Rubrik is expanding its backup software to cover more cloud databases and Oracle Cloud services, according to TechTarget. The company shared these updates during its annual Rubrik Forward event, which was held online. In the coming months, Rubrik’s platform will support managed relational databases like AWS RDS and Microsoft Azure SQL. It also plans to […]
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Microsoft’s first cloud region in Malaysia, known as Malaysia West, has been officially opened. Located in Greater Kuala Lumpur, the new region includes three availability zones and provides cloud services to meet local data storage needs. With this launch, Malaysian organisations will be able to access Microsoft’s services, such as Azure and Microsoft 365, as […]
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Kyndryl is adding more services to its Distributed Cloud lineup, expanding how it works with Microsoft’s cloud stack. The update aims to help companies manage and modernise their tech setups more easily – especially when juggling hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT systems. The new services have been designed to fit into existing IT setups without […]
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Microsoft is preparing to run Elon Musk’s Grok AI model on its cloud platform Azure, according to a source familiar with the company’s internal discussions, as reported by The Verge. Engineers at Microsoft have been directed to ready the company’s infrastructure in case a deal with Musk’s xAI moves forward. The Grok model would likely […]
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Managed service providers (MSPs) are facing growing pressure on all sides. Customers want more, talent is harder to find and cloud environments are becoming increasingly complex — stretching teams and squeezing margins. For Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and founder of Nerdio, this is exactly where MSPs have an opportunity to stand out. We sat down with […]
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Facing rising client expectations and growing price pressure, managed service providers (MSPs) are turning to automation not just to save money but to stay competitive. At NerdioCon 2025 in La Quinta, California, we caught up with Jeremy Wallace, principal cloud architect at IT services company Safari Micro, to chat about how the MSP landscape is […]
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More than seven in 10 cloud environments are employing managed AI services according to a new analysis, with the common use of OpenAI, be it directly or through Azure SDKs, suggesting that generative AI tools are ‘quickly becoming commonplace in cloud business models.’ The study, from cloud security platform provider Wiz, analysed more than 150,000… Read more »
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