Is this how Microsoft is trying to help retain entities that may wish to part ways with the public cloud?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06/16/announcing-comprehensive-sovereign-solutions-empowering-european-organizations/

I mean, I’ve moved millions of mailboxes literally and I don’t really want to move them back on premise… but I do see a lot of people wanting another solution that is less Microsoft-y - especially outside of the America’s

I guess this is one way to try to retain recurring revenue.

#microsoft365 #exchange #entraad #onprem #collaboration

Had nice runs this weekend !

First 16+ km on Friday and a nice 11km sojourn this morning. It’s getting warm (35c, even early so pace is down.

#runnersofmastodon

#linkedin isn’t at all what it ever set out to be.

It’s joined the realm of #meta to me, one that I simply am not a fan of. I was able to extract myself from meta years ago, 5 years actually!

What do you use as an alternative ?

Friends laid off from Microsoft after moving into AI roles. Starting to feel like MS realized they can’t compete with distributed platforms like Runpod.io.

Why fight to scale clunky Azure AI when devs are just spinning up LLMs elsewhere—faster, cheaper, no red tape?

#Microsoft #Layoffs #AI #Azure #Runpod #GPUaaS #CloudFatigue

When will people stop calling using technology- or the use of technology that we’ve had for decades… “Modern Work”

-Adding audiovisual equipment that has to be simply sized the same way that we would have spent significant design time and cost are no longer a factor.
-“Modern Work” technologies require far less technical aptitude to deploy and manage.

The way I see it most of the equipment vendors realize that as well. So for those people in that part of my industry, what’s next?

What are your thoughts on managed private LLMs - think virtual private LLMs that render trained models for your environment, only?

The model(s) stay in your environment as well. Many larger firms run their own, but the SMB space is stuck using public LLMs -

This reminds me of when I helped with BPOS since we were already doing managed exchange… why not managed LLMs!