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Spotlight: Making the most of multicloud

For IT leaders navigating multicloud environments, success depends on strategic alignment across business units, robust governance frameworks, and proactive security postures. While multicloud offers agility and vendor flexibility, it also introduces challenges in visibility, compliance, and developer productivity. In this special report, you’ll learn how to take advantage of the benefits of using multiple clouds, avoid common pitfalls, and ensure that multicloud is worth the investment.

By Computerworld Staff

Nov 28, 20251 min

Cloud ComputingEnterprise Buyer’s GuidesMulticloud

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End-to-end encryption is next frontline in governments’ data sovereignty war with hyperscalers

Swiss public-sector data protection officers say controlling the geographic location of cloud data isn’t enough: governments must hold the encryption keys too.

By Gyana Swain

Dec 1, 20256 mins

EncryptionGovernmentGovernment IT

Microsoft Ignite 2025 — get the latest news and insights

By Dan Muse

Nov 20, 202512 mins

Generative AIMicrosoft 365Microsoft Azure

Gartner predicts 11% increase in IT spending in Europe by 2026

By Viktor Eriksson

Nov 19, 20251 min

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingCloud Computing

Gartner: European IT leaders to boost spending on local clouds amid geopolitical worries

By Matthew Finnegan

Nov 12, 20254 mins

Cloud ManagementGovernmentLaws and Regulations

OpenAI spends even more money it doesn’t have

By Paul Barker

Nov 3, 20256 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingGenerative AI

The AWS outage post-mortem is more revealing in what it doesn’t say

By Evan Schuman

Nov 3, 20259 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIaaSTechnology Industry

Signal: We have no choice but to use AWS

By Viktor Eriksson

Oct 29, 20251 min

Cloud ComputingMessaging AppsProductivity Software

Amazon to cut 14,000 jobs across company

By Peter Sayer

Oct 28, 20252 mins

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon.comHiring

Spotlight report: Securing the cloud

By Computerworld Staff and Contributors

Oct 1, 20251 min

Cloud ComputingCloud SecurityEnterprise Buyer’s Guides

Articles

Box’s new AI features help unlock dormant data

New features aim to tap into unstructured data with smarter analysis by AI — and protect that data from being misused.

By Agam Shah

Sep 12, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud StorageData and Information Security

Box CTO Ben Kus talks up the marriage of cloud storage, genAI agents

The cloud service provider hopes to bolster productivity by offering agentic AI to users so they can extract crucial details from their unstructured data.

By Agam Shah

Sep 11, 2025 6 mins

Cloud StorageFile SharingGenerative AI

Atlassian says its ‘Don’t F— the Customer’ principle drove cloud-only decision

The company will end all on-premises licenses in March 2029, impacting thousands of enterprises.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 10, 2025 5 mins

Cloud ComputingCollaboration Software

Dropbox to offer its genAI service Dash for download

The cloud storage provider sees its upcoming generative AI service 'Dash' as a value-add for customers.

By Agam Shah

Aug 26, 2025 3 mins

Cloud StorageFile SharingGenerative AI

Cost optimization: How to get the most out of your DaaS investment

Watching the bottom line: An automated approach to provisioning AVD with Nerdio guarantees reliability across deployments, mitigating the risk of errors and ensuring a seamless user experience—all while protecting your investment.

By Pete Bartolik

Jul 22, 2024 4 mins

Cloud ComputingDigital Transformation

Learning for a living: How to succeed as an IT consultant

An IT consultant with decades of engagements across the enterprise told us how life as an independent contractor can make for a brilliant career – with a commitment to lifelong learning and building a supportive network.

By Matt Egan

Aug 11, 2025 5 mins

CareersCloud-NativeIT Leadership

Hybrid Exchange environment vulnerability needs fast action

Microsoft and CISA urge admins to quickly plug a high-severity vulnerability.

By Howard Solomon

Aug 7, 2025 1 min

Hybrid CloudNetwork SecurityVulnerabilities

Having it all: How to be a technology expert and a business leader

In an insightful conversation with a CTO and company founder, we learnt that the path to technology leadership has changed. Where once you faced a choice: technologist or manager, now you can have it all. You can be a leader and remain excited and curious about your technology discipline. In fact, you might have to.

By Matt Egan

Aug 4, 2025 5 mins

Cloud ComputingIT Leadership

Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice

The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

Cloud ComputingMicrosoftRisk Management

Why firewalls and VPN are bad for security

Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World who want to know why VPNs and firewalls can make your organization less secure; what OpenAI's putative ChatGPT productivity suite might offer; and why traditional cloud tools cannot support agentic AI.

By Matt Egan

Jul 28, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingSecurity

Microsoft will stop using Chinese workers on US DoD systems

Following criticism of the company’s use of Chinese workers to advise on operation of Department of Defense cloud systems, Microsoft has changed its policy.

By Peter Sayer

Jul 22, 2025 1 min

Cloud ComputingCloud SecurityGovernment IT

Under CISPE pressure, Microsoft opens the door to fairer cloud competition in Europe

The move gives CISPE members more control over pricing and the ability to privately host customers. But some say it doesn’t go far enough to address competition issues in the European cloud market.

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 18, 2025 7 mins

Cloud ComputingMicrosoft

Microsoft OneDrive cheat sheet: Using OneDrive for Web

OneDrive for Web lets you save, access, share, and manage your files in the cloud using your favorite browser. Learn how to use the web interface — and Copilot AI with it — for a big productivity boost.

By Howard Wen

Jul 10, 2025 26 mins

Cloud StorageCollaboration SoftwareMicrosoft 365