Microsoft has unveiled Frontier Company, making a $2.5 billion bet that the next competitive battleground in artificial intelligence will not be foundation models, but helping enterprises put those models to work.
Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms reflects a broad infrastructure shift driven by hypervisor changes, cloud-style consumption economics, surging hardware costs, and AI.
Siloed tools, teams, budgets, and resources spread across departments and campuses generate massive amounts of data. However, fragmentation creates unnecessary exposure to security threats and inadvertently reduces student support because no one can see the whole picture.
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