From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery, a fully managed service that delivers enterprise-wide visibility into your data estate in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. Azure Storage Discovery helps you optimize storage costs, comply with security best practices, and drive operational efficiency. With the included Microsoft…

Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace.

By Dustin Ward

An image of part of the Microsoft Marketplace digital dashboard.A new breed of industry-leading company is taking shape — Frontier Firms. These organizations blend human ambition with AI-powered technology to reshape how innovation is scaled, work is orchestrated and value is created. They’re accelerating AI transformation to enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, reshape business…

Accelerate migration and modernization with agentic AI

By Dustin Ward

Every organization has an innovation agenda. Whether it’s building AI-native applications, creating more engaging customer experiences, or unlocking new efficiencies—ambition is never the problem. But for many teams, it’s their technical debt that stands in the way. Legacy systems, outdated codebases, and fragmented infrastructure slow progress and drain resources. In fact, over 37% of application portfolios require modernization today—and that number will remain high over the…

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Models and Microsoft Security Copilot achieve ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification—a globally recognized standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS) for both Azure AI Foundry Models and Microsoft Security Copilot. This certification underscores Microsoft’s commitment to building and operating AI systems responsibly, securely, and transparently. As responsible AI is rapidly becoming a business and regulatory imperative, this certification reflects how…

Databricks runs best on Azure

By Dustin Ward

Azure Databricks has clear advantages over other cloud service providers This blog is a supplement to the Azure Databricks: Differentiated Synergy blog post and continues to define the differentiation for Azure Databricks in the cloud data analytics and AI landscape. Azure Databricks: Powering analytics for the data-driven enterprise In today’s data-driven world, organizations are seeking…

Reasoning reimagined: Introducing Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning

By Dustin Ward

State of the art architecture redefines speed for reasoning models Microsoft is excited to unveil a new edition to the Phi model family: Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning. Purpose-built for scenarios where compute, memory, and latency are tightly constrained, this new model is engineered to bring advanced reasoning capabilities to edge devices, mobile applications, and other resource-constrained environments. This…