Microsoft Azure earnings grow but disappoint, company blames data center capacity constraints
Shares in Microsoft dipped 4.5 percent in after hours trading
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Microsoft to build energy infrastructure technologies team, hiring for transmission tech director
Along with an energy tech researcher to develop "precommercial energy technologies"
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Indianapolis Public Schools move IT operations to the cloud
Exit data center in "aging building"
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Nokia signs five year agreement to support Microsoft Azure data centers
Will support Azure's migration from 100GE to 400GE connectivity within existing facilities
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Microsoft launches DPU and new HSM chips, also launches hybrid infrastructure platform Azure Local
And other Microsoft updates from Ignite 2024
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Microsoft on track for $10bn in annual revenue from AI inference
"We're not selling raw GPUs for other people to train"
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Microsoft becomes first cloud to offer Nvidia Blackwell system
Cloud giant adds GB200 AI servers to its mix
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Trista Brown named director of zero waste at Microsoft
As 2030 deadline gets ever closer
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Telehealth provider to be Microsoft's New Zealand cloud anchor tenant
Whakarongorau Aotearoa to migrate system to the cloud
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FDA seeks high-speed direct connections from its data centers to cloud regions
Seeks to connect the FDA's Ashburn data center and White Oak data center to the cloud
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Azure Front Door configuration change causes Microsoft cloud issues
Azure DevOps outage comes after several weeks of problems
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Investigation confirms IDF uses AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure for Gaza war
AWS used to store mass surveillance of Gaza’s population
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Australia's Colonial First State signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud and AI
Wealth management group will continue to use Azure as its preferred cloud
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TikTok spent $20m a month on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service - report
Accounting for a quarter of all spend on Azure OpenAI
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Delta Airlines faces investigation following CrowdStrike outage flight cancelations
Passengers experienced issues for days following outage
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Microsoft Azure outage and faulty CrowdStrike update grounds flights, delays trains, impacts banks around the world
Perfect storm of IT disasters
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Microsoft opens first cloud region in Spain
Region located in Madrid
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OpenAI to use OCI for AI training, Oracle to build "very large data center"
Will provide additional capacity to OpenAI, alongside Microsoft Azure
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Microsoft is deploying the equivalent of five 561 petaflops supercomputers every month
72,000 H100 GPU equivalents a month, as OpenAI says that scaling laws show no sign of slowing down
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Conduent and Voya Financial adopt Oracle Database@Azure for cloud migration
And Oracle makes Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs available on its US Government Cloud region
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Anglian Water migrates to Microsoft Azure
With help from Capgemini
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Microsoft has more than 20GW of renewable energy under contract
As it plans for its data centers to be carbon neutral by 2030
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Microsoft invests $1.5bn in UAE-based AI firm G42
Deal with G42 includes $1bn development fund
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Vendor lock-in causes negotiation issues for UK gov't - report
Following several MoUs signed with AWS
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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to become Microsoft's head of consumer AI
And takes most of Inflection AI startup with him, putting GPU cluster at risk
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Nvidia debuts X800 series switches for generative AI
Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet
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House Committee votes to force TikTok sale, would block US data centers from hosting app
Company relies on Oracle for American operations
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Nonprofit Goodwill Industries of the Valleys fully migrates to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Migration enabled nonprofit to convert HQ into a community center