Today, Microsoft suffered another global outage due to possible “network infrastructure” issues and announced, as it posted on X (formerly Twitter), that it is investigating the situation. This comes almost two weeks after the outage involving CrowdStrike that caused unprecedented delays at airports. While this outage isn’t on the same level, it’s another reminder of … Read more
Responding to the flight pan-India disruptions caused by a global IT outage by Microsoft, Union Aviation minister Rammohan Naidu on Friday, July 19, asked airport authorities and airlines to ensure passenger welfare. He also assured passengers that the Ministry and Airports Authority of India (AAI) are actively managing the situation using manual methods to ensure … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit plans to shut down its data centres in Australia and India, as the company prioritises infrastructure spending in other markets. Citing the move as part of its “infrastructure strategy update”, Alibaba Cloud said the decision was made after a “careful assessment” amid new efforts to “expand investment in Southeast … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit has slashed prices for international customers by up to 59 per cent, as the tech giant fights to woo users amid a global race for computing resources driven by rapid artificial intelligence (AI) development. The international cloud business of Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, is facing … Read more
Microsoft wants to give its artificial intelligence (AI) the ability to analyse telephone conversations to detect and protect you from telephone scams. Dubbed Azure Operator Call Protection, the service is capable of analysing and scanning all exchanges between you and the other caller. In a new blog post, Yousef Khalidi, CVP of Azure for Operators, … Read more
Google has reportedly reached out to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) through a letter, requesting the competition regulator to clamp down on the “anticompetitive” business practices Microsoft adopts in cloud computing. A new letter posted on CMA’s website indicates Amazon has shown its support for the search giant’s criticism of Microsoft’s business practices … Read more
