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.”

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.

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

Inspector general says no evidence the award resulted from interference by Trump.