Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: All the intelligent cloud news explained

By Dustin Ward

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:…

Announcing Azure Copilot agents and AI infrastructure innovations

By Dustin Ward

In this article Agentic cloud operations: Introducing Azure Copilot Azure’s AI infrastructure: The backbone of modernization Building for trust: Resiliency, operational excellence, and security What does modernizing workloads look like today? Looking ahead The cloud is more than just a platform—it’s the engine of transformation for every organization. This year at Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re…

Resiliency in the cloud—empowered by shared responsibility and Azure Essentials

By Dustin Ward

Empowering organizations to shape the future of cloud with resilient, always-on solutions. Overview In today’s digital-first era, downtime is not an option—businesses must be resilient to thrive. Imagine it’s 2:00 AM and an outage occurs. Whether your team responds with panic or calm depends on how well you’ve prepared. Fast recovery isn’t luck—it’s the result…

Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft delivers the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through the next-generation NVIDIA InfiniBand network. This cluster is the first of many, as we scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs deployed across Microsoft’s AI datacenters globally, reflecting our continued commitment to redefining AI infrastructure and collaboration with…

Azure Kubernetes Service Automatic: Fast and frictionless Kubernetes for all

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic, delivering Kubernetes that’s already configured, optimized, and ready to run—right out of the box. AKS Automatic accelerates app delivery with automation, simplifies Kubernetes operations through intelligent defaults, and enables secure, compliant workloads optimized for AI and cloud-native use cases. AKS Automatic will set the…