Azure Red Hat OpenShift moves the control plane out of your subscription
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now available with hosted control planes in public preview. Red Hat announced the change on September 15, and it restructures where the most expensive and least visible part of your cluster actually runs: instead of three control plane virtual machines sitting in your Azure subscription, the control plane runs […]
Tottenham Hotspur cut VMware licensing costs by 85 percent with HPE Morpheus
Tottenham Hotspur cut its virtualization licensing bill by more than 85 percent by moving its stadium infrastructure off VMware. The English Premier League club confirmed this week that it replaced VMware with HPE’s Morpheus VM Essentials, delivered through HPE’s GreenLake hybrid cloud platform, and that the savings were the biggest single reason for the switch. […]
Azure VM Image Builder goes GA in sovereign and air-gapped clouds
Running the same image pipeline across commercial Azure and government or China-hosted clouds has always meant maintaining two setups. Azure VM Image Builder now removes part of that split: the service is generally available in Azure Government, China North 3, Azure Government Secret, and Azure Government Top Secret, according to Microsoft’s announcement. Teams that build […]
Azure Launches 248 and 372 vCPU Sizes for D and E v7 Virtual Machines
Massive Compute Densities Reach General Availability Azure has officially made the largest tiers of its Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 virtual machine lines generally available, offering VM configurations scaling up to 248 and 372 vCPUs. Powered by Intel Xeon 6 6973PC processors (Granite Rapids architecture), these instances represent a significant leap in raw CPU core density […]
eBPF Host Routing Hits General Availability in Advanced Container Networking Services for AKS
Running high throughput or low latency distributed systems on Kubernetes often hits an unexpected bottleneck inside the Linux kernel network stack. Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of eBPF Host Routing within Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This release fundamentally transforms how network packets move between pods and nodes […]
Offline Cryptographic Auditing: Azure Confidential Ledger Releases Local Ledger Verification Tool
Verifying the cryptographic integrity of tamper-proof audit trails has traditionally required direct network connectivity to the underlying enclave infrastructure. For organizations operating under stringent compliance frameworks, external auditing engagements create an operational friction point: how do you grant third-party auditors or security analysts the ability to inspect transaction history and validate mathematical proofs without exposing […]
Microsoft Fabric Flips Item Recovery On By Default, and That Is a Good Thing
Microsoft is about to make a quiet change to Fabric that most tenants will never notice, but it will save a few of them from real pain. Starting August 23, 2026, Fabric will enable Item Recovery by default for any tenant that has not explicitly configured the setting. For supported item types, that means a […]
Sheetz is moving 11,000 VMs off VMware after Broadcom’s licensing changes
Sheetz, the Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain with more than 800 locations across the eastern US, is packing up 11,000 virtual machines and leaving VMware. The company is moving its entire virtualization estate over to StorMagic’s SvHCI platform, and the decision came down to a simple reason: Broadcom created too much uncertainty. The migration is a […]
Migrate AWS FSx to Azure Files with Azure Storage Mover
Moving file workloads between clouds used to mean a painful mix of scripts, third-party tools, and manual downtime. Microsoft just made part of that easier with a new public preview that migrates files from AWS FSx for Windows File Server straight into Azure Files. If you run SMB-based Windows file workloads on AWS and want […]
Azure Virtual Network routing appliance hits general availability
Azure has made its Virtual Network routing appliance generally available for production workloads. The move gives teams a managed alternative to the usual stack of VM-based network virtual appliances (NVAs) that have anchored hub-and-spoke designs for years. It also marks August 4, 2026 as the date the service stopped being a preview experiment and became […]
Microsoft Azure Launches India South Central Region
Microsoft opened a new Azure datacenter region in Hyderabad, Telangana, making it the company’s fourth cloud region in India. The India South Central region went live on July 28, 2026, and it brings Azure services closer to customers in the southern part of the country. The new region sits on a campus in Hyderabad with […]
PowerShell 7.6 Runbooks and Runtime Environment Reach GA in Azure Automation
Azure Automation catches up with the latest PowerShell Azure Automation now supports PowerShell 7.6 runbooks in general availability, alongside a new Runtime environment feature that simplifies how execution environments are configured and managed. The update brings Azure Automation in line with the current PowerShell release cycle, which Microsoft has been steadily accelerating. PowerShell 7.6 ships […]