Cuts out the Azure middleman with multi-year deal for 'tighter alignment' Snowflake plans to spend as much as $200 million ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks Copilot, Azure, AI, agents, OpenAI and more on the company’s Q2 earnings call.

Microsoft had a cloud outage that interrupted service for Outlook, Fabric, Viva, Defender and other parts of its portfolio.

Organizations deliberately using unlicensed software do not have much of a defense, but there are grey areas, such as ...

Showcased revenue management and innovation through the XTEL-Microsoft collaboration at NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show LUXEMBOURG, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- XTEL, a global leader in AI-first revenue ...

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Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

Change signals a shift away from legacy monitoring packs toward modern observability and Azure-based monitoring tools.

Microsoft has announced that SCOM Management Packs for SSRS, PBIRS, and SSAS will reach End of Support in January 2027, forcing enterprise migration to Azure Monitor.

Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

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Abstract: Big data SQL analytics platform has evolved as the key infrastructure for business data analysis. Compared with traditional costly commercial RDBMS, scalable solutions with open-source ...