Hybrid Cloud
The latest Hybrid Cloud coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Azure Modernization: Up to 400% ROI and 6-Month Payback for Scaling Agentic AI
Organizations that pair a modern cloud core with agentic AI are already pulling ahead, and new research puts hard numbers behind the shift: cloud modernization on Microsoft Azure can deliver up to...
Microsoft’s August 2025 Hotfixes Force Skype for Business Hybrid Users to Switch Dedicated Apps by October 15
Microsoft dropped an August 2025 hotfix bomb for Skype for Business Server that kills the comfort of a shared service principal and replaces it with a tenant-owned Dedicated Hybrid Application....
Azure Revenue Rockets 39% to $75B Annual Run Rate as Microsoft Cloud Dominates Q4
Microsoft just dropped a bombshell quarterly report that reshapes the cloud landscape. For the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025, the company posted $76.4 billion in total revenue—an 18%...
NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud Lands on Microsoft Azure as a Managed Service, Streamlining Enterprise Digital Twins
NVIDIA will host its Omniverse Cloud platform on Microsoft Azure, making Azure the first managed cloud platform for the company’s industrial digital twin and simulation tools, the two firms...
AWS, Azure, Gemini, M3, and Watson: The Five Tech Titans Controlling the Future of Cloud, AI, and Quantum
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and IBM have solidified their grip on the foundational layers of modern computing. Cloud infrastructure, enterprise artificial intelligence, consumer device...
The £9 Billion Question: Can Open Source Save the UK Public Sector from Microsoft Lock-in?
A single procurement deal now ties the UK public sector to Microsoft in a relationship the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) expects will cost roughly £9 billion over five years. That...
Microsoft Patches Publicly Disclosed ‘BadSuccessor’ Kerberos Zero-Day and Exchange Hybrid Cloud Threat in August 2025 Update
Microsoft’s August 2025 security update patches a publicly disclosed Kerberos privilege escalation flaw and a dangerous Exchange hybrid vulnerability that could let attackers hop from on-premises...
Microsoft Breaks Cloud-Only Barrier: Xbox App Brings Local Game Downloads to Arm Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to the Xbox PC app that, for the first time, allows Arm-based Windows 11 PCs to download and play games locally—no longer confined to cloud streaming. The...
Hyperscalers to Plow $445B into Data Centers in 2025 as AI Compute Demands Reshape Infrastructure Spending
Global cloud capex is hurtling toward $445 billion in 2025—a staggering 50% year-over-year increase—as Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta bankroll a new generation of AI infrastructure that...
Sure’s Azure Stack Hub in Channel Islands: Real Capacity, Licensing, and Data Sovereignty Demystified
Channel Island enterprises now have a managed Azure Stack Hub service hosted locally by Sure, a move that promises data residency, Azure-consistent tooling, and on-island support. This hybrid cloud...
Azure Serverless GPUs Propel Microsoft to 2025 Gartner Container Management Leadership
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, a milestone that validates the company's aggressive expansion of its Azure container portfolio and its...
CVE-2025-53765: Microsoft Warns of Azure Stack Hub Data Leak Through Authorized Local Access
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53765, an information disclosure vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that permits an attacker with local authorization to...