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 […]
Prepared Image Specification on AKS tackles the cold-start node problem
What is Prepared Image Specification? If you run AI training jobs, GPU inference, or large Windows workloads on AKS, you have probably noticed the startup lag. A new node joins the cluster, and then it spends minutes pulling container images before it can actually run anything. For autoscaling events, those minutes add up. Azure’s Prepared […]