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…

Microsoft strengthens sovereign cloud capabilities with new services

By Dustin Ward

Across Europe and around the world, organizations today face a complex mix of regulatory mandates, heightened expectations for resilience, and relentless technological advancement. Sovereignty has become a core requirement for governments, public institutions, and enterprises seeking to harness the full power of the cloud while retaining control over their data and operations. In June 2025,…

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…

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 Legacy systems, outdated codebases, and fragmented infrastructure slow progress and drain resources.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…

Agent Factory: Creating a blueprint for safe and secure AI agents

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is the sixth out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which shares best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Trust as the next frontier Trust is rapidly becoming the defining challenge for enterprise AI. If observability is about seeing, then security is about…