Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability

By Dustin Ward

In this article How Azure’s AI-powered reliability intelligence system works Why Brain is needed What is Brain? Azure’s centralized AIOps for cloud reliability Foundations of Azure’s digital twin for cloud health What it means to operate against a cloud intelligence system The future of agentic AI and cloud operations What’s next for Azure reliability and…

Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio

By Dustin Ward

Takeaway: Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production. You don’t know with certainty that your application is resilient until that resilience is tested. Better to learn it isn’t by deliberately breaking it in a test environment and watching how it reacts,…

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is the production path enterprises have been asking for: true frontier model choice, Azure-native controls, simplified procurement, and faster time to value. Most enterprise AI projects do not stall because of model quality. They stall because of everything around the model: procurement, governance, networking, and data. Claude in Microsoft Foundry is…

The 2026 Agent Confidence Index: Where 300 builders see real momentum

By Dustin Ward

A couple of months ago, I sat across from my nine-year-old daughter’s teachers at a parent-teacher conference. They were kind but concerned. She takes her time on assignments, they said—often deep in thought. How would she do on timed tests next year? I told them I wasn’t worried. What they described as a problem is, to me,…

From insight to action: The next phase of agentic cloud operations

By Dustin Ward

In this article Governance connects insight to action Observability is the intelligence layer From signals to resolution Optimization becomes continuous From dashboards to connected workflows Optimization intelligence across tools and environments Bringing it all together in a closed loop system Get started with Azure Azure Copilot What if your cloud environment could help you move…

3 things leaders need to know from Microsoft Build 2026

By Dustin Ward

In this article 1. Your AI is only as good as what it knows about your business 2. Tools don’t transform organizations. Systems do. 3. The bar has moved. AI is expected to deliver real business outcomes. Your next step to build an AI-powered business Related Build headlines I’ve had a front-row seat to a…