IBM's Open Horizon is meant to make it easier to manage thousands of IoT devices as edge computing nodes.

The company is opening new sites and striking deals with internet service providers to help manage a pandemic-related surge in demand for its Azure and Office cloud services.

WANdisco LiveData Platform for Azure allows businesses to move their on-premises data to the cloud with no downtime.

The moves to secure Azure cloud services range from providing greater visibility into third parties with access to an organization's applications and data to improving risk assessment with a Secure Score API.

Future machine learning models will be enormous. The OpenAI system shows that hyperscale cloud platforms can take them on.

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare includes tools that allow for digital triage, telemedicine and coordination of care using internet-based services, chat and conferencing apps.

It’s a way to extend your VMware environment into Azure. Wait, didn’t we already have that?

Amazon, Google and Microsoft—the top public cloud providers—are all benefiting from organizations of all sizes looking to the cloud for business continuity during the global pandemic.

Yousef Khalidi, corporate VP for Azure Networking, says the strategy is to build a “global computing infrastructure substrate.”