Cloud Governance
The latest Cloud Governance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
IFI Techsolutions Earns Azure Expert MSP Status Fourth Year Running, Proving Cloud Mastery
IFI Techsolutions Limited, a Mumbai-headquartered Microsoft cloud partner, has renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) status for the fourth consecutive year, the company...
African Executives Told to End AI Pilot Purgatory and Embed Tools Like Copilot Into Core Operations
NAIROBI — A gathering of Kenyan business leaders received a blunt message at a recent executive breakfast: the experiment is over. It is time to drag artificial intelligence out of the innovation...
Brussels Opens DMA Probes into AWS and Azure, Putting Cloud Gatekeeper Rules on the Fast Track for IT Teams
European Union regulators opened formal investigations into Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure on November 18, 2025, setting the stage for both hyperscalers to be designated as "gatekeepers"...
The Microsoft 365 Value Gap: How to Avoid the Common Traps That Undermine Your Investment
Microsoft 365 is the backbone of productivity for millions of organizations, yet many leaders quietly suspect they are not getting their money's worth. The platform bundles together Office apps,...
CUBE Taps Microsoft Azure to Automate Regulatory Change for Financial Institutions
Financial institutions overwhelmed by a relentless flood of regulatory changes—over 300 million pages globally per year—have a new weapon. On March 25, 2026, CUBE announced that its regulatory...
Azure's PaaS Momentum in Botswana Is More Than Cloud Spending—It's a Skills Revolution
Botswana’s public sector and its fast-growing corps of local developers are shifting money from large infrastructure contracts into operational budgets that fund Platform as a Service. The move,...
A1 Technologies Passes Independent Audit for Microsoft Azure Migration Specialisation
A1 Technologies, an Australian IT services firm, has secured the Microsoft Infrastructure and Database Migration to Azure specialisation. The achievement comes after the company underwent an...
Capgemini Cloud Platform Delivers Automated Governance for Windows and Multi-Cloud Workloads
Large enterprises running Windows Server, Azure, and other cloud platforms now have a managed option that promises to streamline governance, cost control, and operations across hybrid environments....
How Microsoft Azure Bypasses OpenAI’s China Ban for ByteDance and Tencent
ByteDance, Ant Group, Tencent, and Meituan are tapping into OpenAI’s most advanced AI models—not through OpenAI itself, but via Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The arrangement, detailed in a...
Pax8 Partners Gain Recurring Revenue with inforcer Copilot Readiness Service
Pax8 announced on June 9, 2026, that it will integrate inforcer into its cloud marketplace this summer, giving managed service providers (MSPs) a streamlined way to deliver Microsoft 365 security,...
Azure Job Cuts in China: Windows Admins Must Audit Cloud Sovereignty Now
Microsoft is eliminating hundreds of Azure-related positions in Beijing and Shanghai, a move that should put every Windows administrator on alert. Employees were informed last week that their roles...
Azure DP-300 and AZ-305: Core Certifications for DBAs & Architects in 2026
Microsoft’s Azure role-based certifications rarely stand still. Every year brings exam updates, new specialties, and the occasional retirement—yet two stalwarts, DP-300 and AZ-305, enter 2026 not...