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Founded in Albuquerque in April 1975 by the famous duo of founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is today one of the biggest global IT companies. More than five decades after its inception, the company is now the world's third most valuable enterprise by market cap.

Computer software, personal computers and consumer electronics are the core business of Microsoft, but the company is also focused on cloud computing services and video games as well.
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Avanade unveils suite of Microsoft-powered tools for midmarket firms

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Avanade launches Microsoft-based tools to help midmarket firms optimise cloud costs, enhance security and improve customer experience with ready-to-deploy solutions.
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Why culture and collaboration matter more than ever in IT partnerships

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Australian MSP AC3 builds resilience through decades-long partnerships with vendors like Cisco and Microsoft, ensuring seamless, trusted IT services for clients.
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Trustmarque & Ultima merge to form GBP £1 billion IT giant

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Trustmarque and Ultima have merged, forming a GBP £1 billion IT firm with 1,000 staff, poised to lead UK's digital transformation in AI and cloud services.
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Cloud breaches driven by identity failures & process flaws

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ReliaQuest reveals identity compromises and process flaws, not zero-day exploits, drive most cloud breaches, with 99% of cloud identities still over-privileged.
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Marketron cuts costs & boosts stability with 11:11 Cloud move

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Marketron has cut costs and boosted stability by migrating its cloud infrastructure to 11:11 Systems, avoiding costly hardware maintenance and improving service reliability.
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Microsoft apologises to New Zealand users over unclear 365 plans

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Microsoft apologises to New Zealand users for unclear communication on Microsoft 365 pricing and AI features, offering refunds for plan changes until end of 2025.
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Qualtrics bolsters AI leadership team & pledges USD $500 million

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Qualtrics appoints AI veterans and pledges USD $500 million to advance purpose-built AI for transforming customer and employee experience management.
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Snowflake unveils new AI-powered data tools & expands platform

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Snowflake launches AI-enhanced data tools and expands its platform with Horizon Catalog, Openflow, and Snowflake Postgres for secure, integrated data management.
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Celonis reveals customers have unlocked USD $8.1 billion using Enterprise AI

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Celonis customers have unlocked USD $8.1 billion in value using Enterprise AI and Process Intelligence, with over 300 achieving more than USD $1 million each.
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XYZ Reality appoints Anthony Canipa as Vice President of Customer Success

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XYZ Reality has named Anthony Canipa as Vice President of Customer Success, tapping his decade of data centre expertise to enhance client partnerships and project delivery.
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Sarah Armstrong Smith to deliver keynotes on cyber resilience

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Cybersecurity expert Sarah Armstrong Smith will deliver keynotes worldwide, sharing crisis insights to boost business resilience and innovation from 2025.
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Avalara launches Avi AI agents for secure automated tax compliance

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Avalara unveils Avi, a network of AI agents offering secure, automated tax compliance with human oversight and enterprise-grade security.
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Infoblox unveils new Universal DDI features for AI-ready networks

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Infoblox has enhanced its Universal DDI suite with new AI-ready features, boosting network resilience and management for over 200 firms including Fortune 500s.
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QAI Ventures launches Asia’s first QuantumAI accelerator in Singapore

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QAI Ventures has launched Asia’s first QuantumAI accelerator in Singapore, aiming to boost startups blending quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
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Unlocking the productivity dividend of digital government for New Zealand

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New Zealand's digital government ranking slips from ninth to sixteenth; accelerating cloud adoption could save billions and boost AI productivity by 2035.
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AWS’s $11bn Indiana data centre powers Anthropic’s AI growth

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AWS’s $11bn Rainier data centre in Indiana powers Anthropic’s AI surge, hosting 500,000 custom chips to drive model training and global expansion.
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More than a buzzword: How strategic partnerships power real digital transformation

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Interactive and Microsoft’s enduring partnership drives real digital transformation, helping businesses innovate and modernise with trusted, collaborative solutions.
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Elastic integrates with Azure AI Foundry for real-time monitoring

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Elastic partners with Azure AI Foundry to offer real-time AI monitoring, enabling developers to track performance, costs and compliance in one dashboard.
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FiveP named Orchestry’s first premium partner for Microsoft 365 AI

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FiveP has become Orchestry's first global premium partner, enhancing AI governance and productivity solutions for Microsoft 365 users across Australia and the APAC region.
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Experts weigh in on security risks of Microsoft Azure outage

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Microsoft Azure's outage exposed security risks, disrupting key services used by UK organisations and sparking calls for a diversified, sovereign cloud strategy.