Healthcare win for Microsoft with Humana
Summary: Microsoft inked a seven-year deal with US healthcare insurer Humana. Humana is a good win for Microsoft and its recently put together healthcare team. Humana had revenues of $56b in 2018 is a...
View ArticleMicrosoft buys Mover; more of channel in-house, pushing partners to value-add
Summary: Fresh on the heels of its acquisition of Movere, Microsoft added another startup to its migration portfolio. Details: Mover is only one letter away from the September acquisition, but there...
View ArticleAzure with CloudGenix speeds, secures branch office connectivity to Azure
Summary: CloudGenix’s Autonomous SD-WAN and CloudBlades products are now integrated with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN. Instead of having to set up private connectivity to the cloud from every remote...
View ArticleMicrosoft wins Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
Summary: Microsoft beat out favoured AWS and won the Pentagon JEDI contract. The contract is said to be worth $10b over a ten-year period. Microsoft will provide cloud infrastructure for the Pentagon...
View ArticleSAP continues hyperscale cloud push with Microsoft tie up
Summary: SAP confirmed a partnership with Microsoft as part of its 3Q19 earnings. It is part of ‘Project Embrace’ which aims to help SAP customers migrate from their legacy ERP platforms to running...
View ArticleGermany, France propose European infrastructure to secure data, counter US...
Summary: Germany and France plan to jointly develop a ‘secure and trustworthy data infrastructure for Europe’, with the hope that other European countries will join. The proposal comes from the German...
View ArticleSalesforce migrating Marketing Cloud to Azure
Summary: In a big win for Microsoft, Salesforce is to move its Marketing Cloud to Azure. Currently Marketing Cloud is running in Salesforce’s own data centre. The surprise here is the project has not...
View ArticleEquinor moves to Azure in Norway
Summary: Norwegian energy company Equinor signed a seven-year agreement with Microsoft to use the Azure cloud. Equinor will move all its systems to Azure, which now has in-country infrastructure in...
View ArticleAzure launches region in Norway; DNB moves to cloud
Summary: DNB Group, a Norwegian financial services provider, confirmed it will migrate to Azure. A stumbling block preventing a move to cloud was data residency. DNB is required to keep sensitive data...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure releases network performance numbers; network advantages
Summary: Microsoft published October network latency figures for its cloud platform Azure. Microsoft has a long history in networking though Windows. When the software was dominant, Redmond needed to...
View ArticleSeattle Seahawks move to AWS cloud
Summary: The Seattle Seahawks confirmed signing a five-year contract with AWS. Notably, it will move from Microsoft Azure to AWS. The Seattle Seahawks claimed it would realize cost savings from the...
View ArticleGoogle acquires CloudSimple; enabling VMware, capture enterprise
Summary: Google acquired third party software developer CloudSimple. CloudSimple created a platform that allows VMware workloads to run natively on both Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. It...
View ArticleRackspace takes customer to multi-cloud model
Summary: Rackspace moved education software provider Tribal Group to public cloud infrastructure. Tribal Group will deploy a multi-cloud strategy and deliver its software in a service-based delivery...
View Article2nd Watch shares data points on multi-cloud
Summary: 2nd Watch confirmed some data points about its managed Azure practice. The managed Azure service was introduced late last year and in 2019 customers have been up and running on the service....
View ArticleTata Communications selects Azure to target connected vehicle applications
Summary: Tata Communications will build a proof-of-concept solution for new connected car applications by integrating its MOVE platform with the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP). The MCVP...
View ArticleEquinix expands Azure ExpressRoute reach in EMEA
Summary: Equinix expanded the availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in Europe, adding Frankfurt, Geneva, Milan, Stockholm and Zurich to existing nodes in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Dublin....
View ArticleMicrosoft previews Graphcore IPUs for machine learning on Azure
Summary: The UK’s Graphcore recently came out of stealth with a preview of its IPU (intelligence processing unit, distinct from CPU and GPU processors) on Azure, claimed to be the world’s first IPU...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases Azure Arc; less about the infrastructure
Summary: Microsoft released Azure Arc, a control panel that enables management of Azure-based cloud infrastructure resources across multiple clouds and varied deployment models. The idea behind Azure...
View ArticleAcronis acquires 5nine; adds Microsoft security, management technology
Summary: Acronis acquired 5nine, a provider of cloud management and security solutions for the Microsoft platform. 5nine’s technology is used across Azure, private cloud and on-premise deployments of...
View ArticleMicrosoft to launch Azure region in Qatar in 2021
Summary: Nearly a year after receiving government approval to establish a data centre in Qatar, Microsoft confirmed the new region is expected to come online for Azure in 2021, followed by Office 365,...
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