FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform
In this article Introducing the Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric Getting your data estate ready for AI with Fabric Unifying your data estate with Microsoft OneLake Processing and harmonizing data with Fabric analytics Creating semantic meaning with Fabric IQ Empowering agents to act with Fabric data and operations agents Building mission-critical applications with developer experiences […]
Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI
Microsoft combines accelerated computing with cloud scale engineering to bring advanced AI capabilities to our customers. For years, we’ve worked with NVIDIA to integrate hardware, software and infrastructure to power many of today’s most important AI breakthroughs. What’s new at NVIDIA GTCExpanded Microsoft Foundry capabilities to build, deploy and operate production-ready AI agents on NVIDIA […]
From legacy to leadership: How PostgreSQL on Azure powers enterprise agility and innovation
In today’s digital economy, business leaders face a relentless challenge: how to deliver innovation, scale, and resilience without spiraling costs or compromising performance. At the heart of this challenge lies data infrastructure, which is often one of the most critical and most constrained layers of the enterprise stack. At Microsoft, we’ve seen firsthand how legacy […]
Modernizing regulated industries with cloud and agentic AI
Organizations today face mounting pressure to grow revenue, strengthen security, and innovate—often all at the same time. To meet these demands, many are accelerating cloud migration as a way to unlock greater business outcomes. According to the IDC White Paper,1 sponsored by Microsoft, the top driver for moving to the cloud is operational efficiency, with […]
Many agents, one team: Scaling modernization on Azure
Announcing new agents for modernization that are built to scale and designed for control. When you watch a live broadcast—like the Olympics Games or a major sporting event—you aren’t thinking about the coordination behind it. You simply experience the event. Out of sight, specialized teams synchronize cameras, replays, data, and commentary in real time. When […]
Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure
Across industries, organizations are increasingly standardizing on open models to gain greater control over performance, cost, customization, and the security and compliance required for enterprise deployment. Open models give teams the flexibility to choose the right architecture for each workload and avoid lock‑in to a single model provider as their needs evolve. Explore models on […]
Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast
Every day in the hallways at Microsoft, I hear product teams discussing where agents are headed and how software is forever changed. Many of us come into the office more now, and I didn’t realize how much I missed the in-between moments where natural chat gives us energy—coffee and hot takes on the way to […]
The economics of enterprise AI: What the Forrester TEI study reveals about Microsoft Foundry
Leaders are chasing the AI frontier, reimagining business systems as human-led and agent-operated. To do this, customers are on the hunt for smarter models, more capable agents, and market-ready solutions to operationalize AI workflows. When Forrester modeled the economics of enterprise AI with Microsoft Foundry, the biggest driver behind the 327% ROI over three years1 […]
Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry
Built for Reliable AI Production: Stronger reasoning, dependable execution, and agentic workflows at scaleToday, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production environments. As AI agents are applied to longer, more complex workflows; consistency and […]
Azure IaaS series: Explore new resources for building a stronger, more efficient infrastructure
Why a modern cloud infrastructure foundation is critical to your business Infrastructure has always been foundational to running business-critical cloud workloads; but today, it has become a strategic driver of innovation, resilience, and growth. As organizations accelerate digital transformation, infrastructure decisions increasingly shape how quickly teams can adopt AI, how reliably applications operate at global […]