Microsoft Foundry: Scale innovation on a modular, interoperable, and secure agent stack

By Dustin Ward

One year ago, at Microsoft Ignite, we set out to redefine enterprise intelligence with Foundry. Our conviction was clear: software would evolve beyond rigid workflows, becoming systems that reason, adapt, and act with purpose. We envisioned developers moving from prescriptive logic to shaping intelligent behavior. Today, that transformation is accelerating across industries and organizations of…

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:…

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…

Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of AI supercomputers and the broader Azure global datacenter footprint to create the world’s first planet-scale AI superfactory. By packing computing power more densely than ever…