Cloud

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.”

Despite everyone sheltering in place, it was impossible to avoid COVID-19 during the Linux vendor’s virtual Red Hat Summit 2020 event.

Pandemic-related supply chain disruption in China meant the company couldn't expand data centers as much as planned, leading to some Azure and Office capacity shortages.

The region puts it in a better position to sell to local clients and adds another location for distributing workloads.

The company emailed customers offering to listen to their concerns following news reports that it had turned down requests for breaks on cloud bills.

While they're are restructuring some large contracts case by case, smaller companies aren’t receiving the same flexibility, sources said.