The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane

By Dustin Ward

For decades, cybersecurity defenders have relied on a relatively straightforward model: a vulnerability is disclosed, security teams assess exposure, test available fixes, deploy patches into production, and ultimately close the risk before attackers can exploit it at scale.  That model increasingly reflects a world that no longer exists. Today’s enterprises operate thousands of interconnected workloads…

The Economics of Agent Optimization: From pilots to measurable returns

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is the first of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The AI conversation in most enterprises has moved from the whiteboard to the budget…

What customers value most in Microsoft Databases—from reliability to AI readiness

By Dustin Ward

In this article What customers consistently value Turning customer feedback into innovation Thank you to our customers and community Every day, customers trust Microsoft Databases to power their most critical applications, business processes, and AI-powered experiences. Continuous customer feedback provides valuable insights into how these technologies perform in production and where we should continue investing.…

AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD

By Dustin Ward

First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations. To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the next generation of telecom-focused AI designed to bring deeper…