Cloud News
Microsoft’s Nadella: Public Cloud Will Be ‘The Big Winner’ In Down Economy
Wade Tyler Millward
‘The big winner in all of this will be public cloud because public cloud helps businesses offset the risk of demand risk,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says.
Windows And Security
Despite the drop in PC shipments during the quarter, Windows continues to see usage growth.
All up, there are nearly 20 percent more monthly active Windows devices than pre-pandemic. And on average, Windows 10 and Windows 11 users are spending 8.5 percent more time on their PCs than they were two-and-a-half years ago.
And we are seeing larger commercial deployments of Windows 11. Accenture, for example, has deployed Windows 11 to more than 450,000 employees’ PCs, up from just 25,000 seven months ago. … We‘re the only company with integrated end-to-end tools spanning security, compliance, identity and device management, and privacy across all clouds and platforms.
More than 860,000 organizations across every industry from BP and Fujifilm to ING Bank, iHeartMedia and Lumen Technologies now use our security solutions, up 33 percent year over year.
They can save up to 60 percent when they consolidate our security stack. And the number of customers with more than four workloads have increased 50 percent year over year.
More organizations are choosing both our XDR (extended detection and response) and cloud-native SIEM (security information and event management) to secure their entire digital estate. The number of E5 customers who also purchased Sentinel increased 44 percent year over year.
And as threats become more sophisticated, we are innovating to protect customers. New capabilities in Defender help secure the entire DevOps (development operations) lifecycle and manage security posture across clouds. And (Microsoft identity and access offering) Entra now provides comprehensive identity governance for both on-premise and cloud-based user directories.
