AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.

By Dustin Ward

AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business. The winners won’t be those…

New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads

By Dustin Ward

In this article Building on the success of Cobalt 100 VMs What’s new in Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs Industry partners and customer adoption Developer ecosystem and Arm compatibility Microsoft services powered by Cobalt 200 VMs VM families and specifications The next chapter in Azure’s custom silicon journey Additional resources As organizations increasingly embrace the agentic…

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry

By Dustin Ward

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work.As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and support…

Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

By Dustin Ward

In this article The challenge of multi-cluster networking Our vision: Multi-cluster management with seamless networking Strategic resilience with cross-cluster networking Getting started with cross-cluster networking Documentation and resources As organizations modernize their application portfolios, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how cloud-native infrastructure is architected. No longer is the question “How do we scale…