The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Microsoft Azure experienced a global outage on October 29. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery came later that same day, but some problems linger. Last week, Amazon Web Services ...

The issue affected Microsoft 365, Outlook, Xbox Live, and other services Over 16,000 outage reports were logged on Downdetector during the event A final Post Incident Review will be shared with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serial technology CEO covering all things IT & Tech. On October 29 the internet suffered another global scare. Microsoft’s Azure ...

Azure outage affected global industries, including airlines and airports Microsoft 365 services impacted by Azure configuration change Outage follows recent Amazon AWS disruption, highlighting tech ...

Azure cloud computing platform took down a long list of services from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems for airlines and banks. Image: Envato In a rough day for the cloud-dependent ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The tech company wrote on its ...

A major Microsoft outage has caused services like 365 and Azure cloud platform to go dark hours before the company was set to report its quarterly earnings, CNBC reports. According to Downdetector, ...

Update #2 [Wed 29th Oct 2025, 9pm]: We're starting to see reports that the Xbox service is slowly returning to normal, and we can confirm that our full game libraries and the Microsoft Store are both ...