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Nutanix Named Leader in 2025 Gartner MQ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure—But What Does It Mean for IT Teams?
Nutanix has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, marking its third appearance and second consecutive leadership position in the report. The...
Google Sets Multicloud Standard with Zero Egress Fees in EU and UK, Pressuring Microsoft and AWS
Google Cloud has eliminated data transfer fees for organizations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, a move that goes well beyond the EU...
Red Sea Cable Damage Triggers Azure Latency Surge, Microsoft Reroutes Traffic
Microsoft has confirmed that multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were severed, triggering a surge in latency for Azure customers as traffic is forced onto longer alternative paths....
Microsoft: Azure Latency Surge as Red Sea Cables Cut, Traffic Rerouted
On September 6, 2025, Microsoft issued a service health advisory warning Azure customers that multiple undersea fiber-optic cable cuts in the Red Sea are causing increased latency and intermittent...
One USB to Rule Them All: Ventoy and PhoenixPE Deliver a Complete Windows Rescue Kit
PC technicians and power users have long juggled a drawer full of rescue disks—a Windows installer here, a Linux live USB there, a dedicated password reset stick somewhere else. But a single USB...
Active Directory Backup in 2025: Why You Need More Than Native Tools to Beat Ransomware
When Active Directory goes dark, employees can’t log in, applications fail, and business operations freeze. For most enterprises, it’s a worst-case scenario. Yet many still rely on native Windows...
Enterprise Windows Backup Lands in Intune: Settings Restore, Not Disk Imaging
Microsoft this week pushed Windows Backup for Organizations into general availability, a capability long promised to smooth device migrations for Intune-managed fleets. Just don’t call it a backup....
Screenvision Pulls Off a 12-Week Cloud Heist: Oracle Databases to Azure and OCI Without a Hitch
Screenvision Media just closed a 12-week sprint that many IT leaders would call impossible. The national cinema advertising giant migrated its entire Oracle-driven core business to a multi-cloud...
SEFE's Oracle Migration to Azure Yields 10% Faster Apps and Early ROI
Energy company SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe) has completed roughly half of a planned migration of 17 applications and 37 environments from on-premises Oracle databases to Oracle Database@Azure,...
Screenvision Executes 12-Week Multi-Cloud Shift to Azure and OCI, Powering Cinema Ad Modernization
Screenvision Media, one of the largest cinema advertising networks in the United States, has completed a high-speed migration of its core business systems to a dual-cloud architecture spanning...
Azure Space Evolves: Microsoft’s AI-First Strategy Fuels a Quiet Satellite Partner Push
Microsoft’s Azure Space is not dead. It’s not even on life support. But a recent wave of headlines—most notably a Digitimes story with the blunt summary “As Microsoft doubles down on AI,...
Heavy Writes Cause SSDs to Vanish After Windows 11 KB5063878 Update
Microsoft and SSD controller designer Phison are jointly investigating a serious storage regression introduced by the August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build...