Microsoft Databases and Microsoft Fabric: Your unified and AI-powered data estate
In this article Another leap forward across Microsoft Databases and Microsoft Fabric Deploy the next generation of Microsoft Databases Getting your data estate ready for AI with Microsoft Fabric Mark your calendar for FabCon and SQLCon Watch these announcements in action at Microsoft Ignite As AI reshapes every industry, one truth remains constant: data is […]
Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: All the intelligent cloud news explained
Before joining Microsoft, I spent years helping organizations build and transform. I’ve seen how technology decisions can shape a business’s future. Whether it’s integrating platforms or ensuring your technology strategy stands the test of time, these choices define how a business operates, innovates, and stays ahead of the competition. Today, business leaders everywhere are asking: […]
Introducing Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry: Bringing Frontier intelligence to Azure
Innovation in AI is about empowering every developer and organization with the freedom to choose the right intelligence for every challenge. In today’s landscape, where business needs span from real-time chatbots to deep research agents, model choice is an essential engine of progress. Microsoft Foundry already offers the widest selection of models of any cloud […]
Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory
Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of AI supercomputers and the broader Azure global datacenter footprint to create the world’s first planet-scale AI superfactory. By packing computing power more densely than ever […]
Securing our future: November 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
When we launched the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), our mission was clear: accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future. Today, we’re sharing our latest progress report that reflects steady progress in every area and engineering pillar, underscoring our commitment to security above all else. We also highlight new innovations […]
The new era of Azure Ultra Disk: Experience the next generation of mission-critical block storage
Since its launch at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Azure Ultra Disk has powered some of the world’s most demanding applications and workloads: From real-time financial trading and electronic health records to high-performance gaming and AI/ML services. Ultra Disk was a breakthrough in cloud block storage innovation from the start, introducing independent configuration of capacity, IOPS, and […]
Driving ROI with Azure AI Foundry and UiPath: Intelligent agents in real-world healthcare workflows
Across industries, organizations are moving from experimentation with AI to operationalizing it within business-critical workflows. At Microsoft, we are partnering with UiPath—a preferred enterprise agentic automation platform on Azure—to empower customers with integrated solutions that combine automation and AI at scale. One example is Azure AI Foundry agents and UiPath agents (built on Azure AI […]
Microsoft strengthens sovereign cloud capabilities with new services
Across Europe and around the world, organizations today face a complex mix of regulatory mandates, heightened expectations for resilience, and relentless technological advancement. Sovereignty has become a core requirement for governments, public institutions, and enterprises seeking to harness the full power of the cloud while retaining control over their data and operations. In June 2025, […]
Powering Distributed AI/ML at Scale with Azure and Anyscale
The path from prototype to production for AI/ML workloads is rarely straightforward. As data pipelines expand and model complexity grows, teams can find themselves spending more time orchestrating distributed compute than building the intelligence that powers their products. Scaling from a laptop experiment to a production-grade workload still feels like reinventing the wheel. What if […]
Enhancing software supply chain security with Microsoft’s Signing Transparency
Today, Microsoft is announcing the preview of Signing Transparency to address software supply chain threats that traditional code signing alone cannot fully prevent, building on the Zero Trust principle of “never trust, always verify.” Signing Transparency uses an append-only log to verifiably record each signature, with keys protected in a secure confidential computing enclave. This […]