Good news for U.S. service members – the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy has shifted wholly online in response to the pandemic.

Azure growth jumped 50 percent, fueled by the accelerated shift to the cloud. PC sales surged, boosting Windows, and gaming broke $5 billion for the first time.

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM all take different approaches to extending their clouds to customers’ own data centers.

Companies leased three times more multi-tenant data center capacity last year than in 2019.

Here’s what you need to know about Microsoft Azure Arc, an emerging cloud solution that competes with AWS Outposts and Google Anthos.

The cloud giant adds to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance on Intel's chip technology.

The company said investigations so far show the malicious software wasn’t used to attack others and didn’t impact customer data or outward-facing systems.

Now its own operating system, the hyperconverged infrastructure software goes into general availability with stretch clustering, key hybrid cloud capabilities.

The company has co-developed a demand-supply matching platform with its energy supplier in Sweden.

“Today, we are generating data faster than we are able to understand it. It’s relegated to internal and external silos or simply ignored."