Microsoft Azure stories

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signalled plans to launch an AI cloud platform, aiming to rival AWS, Azure and Google Cloud in offering computing power.

Avanade launches Microsoft-based tools to help midmarket firms optimise cloud costs, enhance security and improve customer experience with ready-to-deploy solutions.

Australian MSP AC3 builds resilience through decades-long partnerships with vendors like Cisco and Microsoft, ensuring seamless, trusted IT services for clients.

ReliaQuest reveals identity compromises and process flaws, not zero-day exploits, drive most cloud breaches, with 99% of cloud identities still over-privileged.

Snowflake launches AI-enhanced data tools and expands its platform with Horizon Catalog, Openflow, and Snowflake Postgres for secure, integrated data management.

Infoblox has enhanced its Universal DDI suite with new AI-ready features, boosting network resilience and management for over 200 firms including Fortune 500s.

Elastic partners with Azure AI Foundry to offer real-time AI monitoring, enabling developers to track performance, costs and compliance in one dashboard.

Microsoft Azure's outage exposed security risks, disrupting key services used by UK organisations and sparking calls for a diversified, sovereign cloud strategy.

AvePoint enhances Azure data protection, partners globally with IAMCP, and boosts cloud marketplace integration to support rising demand in AI security services.

Confluent’s Tableflow now integrates with Delta Lake and Databricks Unity Catalog, enabling real-time analytics and AI with governed data across multicloud environments.

Confluent unveils advanced Streaming Agents, enabling faster, real-time AI agent development with minimal coding and enhanced observability for enterprises.

AVEVA upgrades its CONNECT platform to unify industrial data, enhancing digital twin solutions and boosting sustainability and efficiency in industries worldwide.

DoiT has acquired CloudWize for $250m, enhancing its Cloud Intelligence platform with advanced multi-cloud security and compliance features.

Arinco has integrated D6 Consulting, forming an AI Transformation practice to boost business consulting and program delivery across Australia and New Zealand.

Cyware partners with Microsoft to enable seamless bi-directional threat intelligence sharing between Cyware and Microsoft Sentinel, enhancing security operations.

Defakto has raised $30.75 million to develop a platform securing non-human identities across enterprises, tackling risks from static credentials and AI agents.

Rubrik launches Agent Cloud, a platform enabling enterprises to monitor, govern and remediate risks from AI agents, enhancing control and security in AI adoption.

An AWS outage on 20 October 2025 caused global disruption, hitting platforms like Amazon, Snapchat, Coinbase, HMRC and Lloyds Bank, affecting millions worldwide.

Rackspace Technology cut emissions by 10% in a year and aims for net-zero carbon by 2045, backed by Science Based Targets initiative validation.

New Zealand could save NZD $3.6 billion by 2035 by accelerating cloud adoption in government, boosting productivity and improving public services.