Microsoft just announced the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery, a new managed service that brings visibility, intelligence, and natural language insights to enterprise data stored in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. For organizations with sprawling data estates spread across regions, accounts, and subscriptions, this is big news—and for small and mid-sized […]
In today’s ridiculous threat landscape, protecting applications and data across multicloud and hybrid environments is becoming more complex — and more critical. That’s why we’re excited about the latest updates to Google Cloud Armor, which deliver major improvements in network security, threat detection, and policy management. These updates, highlighted in a release from Google this
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Microsoft recently published an insightful article — Cloud and AI Cost Efficiency: A Strategic Imperative for Long-Term Business Growth — outlining how organizations can make cloud and AI investments more sustainable through readiness, governance, and continuous optimization. As a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) working with small and mid-sized businesses, we couldn’t agree more. The message
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Effective July and August 2025, Microsoft is implementing major licensing and pricing updates across its on-premises server portfolio, impacting both renewals and new deployments. These updates affect SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, and the Client Access License (CAL) Suites. What’s Changing Beginning mid-2025, the following adjustments take effect: 10% price increase for
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In July, GitHub Copilot introduced a powerful new capability: App Modernization for .NET, now available in public preview. This feature brings AI-driven modernization tooling directly into Visual Studio, enabling enterprises to accelerate and automate the migration of legacy .NET applications to Microsoft Azure. What It Does The new Copilot capability analyzes existing application codebases to
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Microsoft has announced the public preview of secure tunneling for private Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters via Azure Bastion, introducing a more streamlined and secure way to connect to Kubernetes APIs. This new capability allows developers and administrators to establish direct tunnels from their local machines to private AKS clusters without relying on VPNs, public
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Microsoft is making one of the largest infrastructure investments in its history—an $80 billion commitment through 2028—to expand AI-optimized data centers and Azure cloud regions worldwide. This initiative reinforces Microsoft’s position as a global leader in AI, cloud computing, and sustainable infrastructure. The roadmap includes: New hyperscale data centers powered by custom Microsoft silicon. Sovereign
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Microsoft has announced the public preview of the Deep Research Agent within the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, marking a major step forward in enterprise AI research automation. Powered by OpenAI’s o3-deep-research model and tightly integrated with Bing, the Deep Research Agent enables organizations to build intelligent agents that autonomously plan, research, analyze, and generate
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Microsoft has announced a new European Security Program designed to support the governments of all 27 EU member states, EU accession countries, as well as the UK, Monaco, and the Vatican. This initiative will be provided at no cost to participating governments, representing a significant investment in Europe’s cybersecurity resilience. What the Program Includes Through
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Microsoft has announced significant updates to its Sovereign Cloud platform in Europe, further strengthening data protection, compliance, and customer control. These updates highlight Microsoft’s commitment to helping European organizations meet sovereignty requirements without compromising access to the company’s full suite of cloud services. Key Announcements 1. Sovereign Public Cloud EnhancementsThe Sovereign Public Cloud is expanding
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