Navigating digital sovereignty at the frontier of transformation
Digital sovereignty is no longer a theoretical debate or a narrow compliance exercise. For leaders across governments, regulated industries, and critical infrastructure sectors, it has become a practical leadership discipline grounded in risk management, continuity planning, and long-term accountability. Over the past several years, we have seen customer concerns evolve materially. Early conversations focused primarily […]
Microsoft named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service
Enterprise digital transformation is entering a new phase. The challenge is no longer just connecting systems. It is about making those systems intelligent, able to reason, respond, and act in real time across the business. As AI moves from experimentation into production, a clear pattern is emerging. Models and agents do not create value on […]
AI for nuclear energy: Powering an intelligent, resilient future
The world is racing to meet a historic surge in power demand with an infrastructure pipeline built for the analog age. Driven by the exponential expansion of digital technologies and the reindustrialization of supply chains, the mandate for always-on, carbon-free power is urgent and absolute. Nuclear energy is the essential backbone for this future, but […]
What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
There’s a pattern in how complex technology matures. Early on, teams make their own choices: different tools, different abstractions, different ways of reasoning about failure. It looks like flexibility but at scale it reveals itself as fragmentation. The fix is never just more capability; it’s shared operational philosophy. Kubernetes proved this. It didn’t just answer […]
Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate
This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next across the Microsoft databases portfolio. This year is especially meaningful, as it marks the return of a Microsoft‑led SQL community event, while also […]
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 […]