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• Azure VMware Solution comes to Singapore

  ​Microsoft has launched availability for its Azure VMware Solution in its Southeast Asia (Singapore) cloud region.

• Microsoft ramps up Azure migration play with new updates

  ​Microsoft is expanding its Azure migration tools and services as it works to get businesses onto its cloud platform.

• Petronas tackles transformation with Azure-powered AI collaboration

  ​Petronas has undertaken an artificial intelligence-driven overhaul, drawing upon Microsoft Azure, enterprise AI software platform vendor C3 AI and industrial services provider Baker Hughes.

• Microsoft adds more Asian languages to Azure Cognitive Services Translator

  ​Khmer, Lao and Myanmar are among nine new languages that have been added to Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services Translator text translation service.

• Why Microsoft Azure wins with enterprise customers

  Microsoft often comes off as second best to AWS. But when it comes to established enterprises, Azure wins more often than not. Here’s why.

• Hyperscale cloud opportunities beckon in the Philippines

  ​The time is ripe for Philippine-based vendors and partners to team up with hyperscale cloud providers, as the country’s cloud market races towards a major surge in spending.

• Azure Firewall heats up with Premium preview

  Azure Firewall Premium has entered into public preview, offering additional capabilities for the managed cloud-based network security service over Firewall Standard.

• Microsoft NZ cloud chief takes on regional APAC role

  ​Microsoft New Zealand is on the hunt for a new cloud chief as its Azure business group lead Patrick Quesnel vacates his role to head up the vendor’s Azure marketing team for the Asia Pacific region.

• Microsoft Azure Quantum opens for public preview

  Microsoft’s quantum computing platform has been used for applications including cancer research, logistics and freight optimization, and risk management.

• Microsoft eyes end of the line for outgoing Azure in CSP commerce model

  Microsoft launched its ‘new commerce experience’ for Azure in its CSP program in 2019. Now, it has laid out its timeline for phase-out of the old Azure CSP ‘offer’ the new experience was supposed to replace.

• SAP and Microsoft bolster relationship for 'the future of work'

  SAP and Microsoft have taken their partnership to a new symbiotic level, with each company looking to push each other’s services on their own platforms in an attempt to figure out new working norms.

• Rhipe ramps up Azure play with Nerdio APAC distribution deal

  Cloud software distributor Rhipe has struck a deal to distribute the products and services of Azure cloud automation specialist Nerdio across the Asia Pacific region.

• Microsoft launches Azure analytics and data services

  Microsoft has officially launched its Azure Synapse Analytics service, as well as its data governance offering Azure Purview, in a move designed to break down and move past silos in businesses.​

• APAC to make up a third of 2025 global telco cloud revenue

  Global telecommunications cloud revenue is forecast to grow to US$29.3 billion by 2025, and the Asia Pacific region is predicted to make up roughly a third of the whole pie, at US$9 billion.

• AWS storms ahead as Q3 global cloud market surges

  The cloud market continued to see strong growth during Q3, with standout AWS generating more revenue than the next three largest CSPs combined.