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:…

GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage

By Dustin Ward

At GitHub Universe 2025, the theme was clear: the ability to see, steer, and build across agents will bring the greatest impact and GitHub is the platform that’s transforming and empowering how developers and agents work together. As we heard from Kyle Daigle, Chief Operating Officer, GitHub, on stage this week, it is “the new…

Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

By Dustin Ward

The current AI landscape presents a challenge we’re all too familiar with: incredible power fragmented across different tools and interfaces. At GitHub, we’ve always worked to solve these kinds of systemic challenges—by making Git accessible, code review systematic with pull requests, and automating deployment with Actions. With 180 million developers, GitHub is growing at its…

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…