Microsofts Sales Top Estimates on Booming Cloud Demand

Teams hits 115 million daily active users and Azure growth accelerates Microsoft saw sales surge in its Q1 as demand for Teams and Azure continued amid the pandemic. Revenue for the period ending 30 September climbed 12 per cent year on year to $37.2bn. Operating income rocketed 25 per cent to $15.9bn. Microsoft highlighted its commercial cloud products - the likes of Azure and comme

Why Elon is smiling captured from an interview during the virtual convention of the Mars Society, Oct 16, 2020. This is an impressive list of achievements, but bear in mind that we are still in the early days of a yet-unproven technology and market in a complex geopolitical environment. The last two months have seen a flurry of Starlink activity, including the following: Bill Gates has a his

Imagine walking down the street, looking for a good cup of coffee. In the distance, a storefront glows in green through your smart glasses, indicating a well-reviewed cafe with a sterling public health score. You follow the holographic arrows to the crosswalk, as your wearables silently signal the self-driving cars to be sure they stop for your right of way. In the crowd ahead you recognize someon

Birds that aren’t geostationary can tap Redmond’s Ground-Station-as-a-Service for all their downloading needs Ignite Microsoft has come up with a way to de-orbit data and land it in a cloud.…

Windows PowerShell, as its name suggests, is a powerful automated task framework from Microsoft. The tool, which debuted alongside Windows 7, includes more than 130 standard command-line tools for functions and enables administrators to perform tasks on local and remote Windows systems. It may be more complicated, but PowerShell’s functionality is far more advanced than Microsoft’s previous comman

Successful use of data is an progressively growing priority for businesses, with databases and documents of all types analysed for trends and information that may offer that vital edge in competition. Productively carrying out this type of analytics is occasionally easier said than done, though, not least because of the diversity of data sources out there. IT is too easy to think of granular level

PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source database system and it’s used by a number of organisations to run mission-critical workloads – including Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. However, the Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a slightly different story. Known as a managed implementation of a service running on Azure cloud infrastructure, Azure Database for PostgreSQL allows customers to quickly

The pace of digital transformation drastically increased in 2020 due to the onset of the pandemic. Remote working, social distancing, and the need for business continuity saw factories, offices, and even restaurants and coffee shops tapping into cloud computing. Taking our lives and our information even further online. With even more data being generated, processed, and stored, particularly by bus

‘Digital transformation’ is one of those phrases you may dismiss as business jargon, but it’s so much more than that. It can play a crucial role in evolving and growing your business. Most organisations will have gone through some sort of digital transformation in their lifetime. The right technology is often key to staying competitive, and during this challenging and uncertain year, adding digit