Adaptability by design: Unifying cloud and edge infrastructure trends 

By Dustin Ward

Adaptability isn’t an option. It’s the strategy. Every day, we engage with organizations navigating growing business complexity across industries, geographies, and regulatory environments. From global manufacturers modernizing plants to financial institutions re-architecting for resilience, we are seeing the same pattern: ambitions are moving faster than traditional architectures can respond to.  Organizations must also contend with…

Forrester Total Economic Impact study: A 304% ROI within 3 years using Azure Arc 

By Dustin Ward

As businesses continue to adapt to changing market demands, running modern workloads requires the rapid integration of AI from digital to physical estate. Managing enterprise-level infrastructure and applications across environments needs to be simplified with centralized visualization and control across IT assets. Azure Arc extends the Azure platform to standardize governance, security, and orchestration for…

Microsoft named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Public Cloud Platforms, 2024

By Dustin Ward

In 2010, we embarked on a journey to build a cloud platform that would empower organizations globally. In February, we celebrated 15 years of bringing Azure innovation to the world, and today, we celebrate Microsoft again being recognized as a leader in Forrester’s recently published report, The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2024. We…

Harnessing the full power of AI in the cloud: The economic impact of migrating to Azure for AI readiness

By Dustin Ward

As the digital landscape rapidly evolves, AI stands at the forefront, driving significant innovation across industries. However, to fully harness the power of AI, businesses must be AI-ready; this means having defined use-cases for their AI apps, being equipped with modernized databases that seamlessly integrate with AI models, and most importantly, having the right infrastructure…