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Thought leadership October 15 6 min read

Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI

Discover how Azure is advancing cloud-native infrastructure to help organizations build, run, and optimize applications and agents at scale.

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Thought leadership October 14 2 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

We’re building operational consistency through Azure and Azure Arc, and infrastructure consistency through Hyper-V.

Announcements October 13 6 min read

Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology

Explore how Microsoft is advancing hardware security through open-source Integrated HSM technology, collaboration, and cryptographic key protection.

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Thought leadership October 12 7 min read

Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture

Maia 300 operates as a single platform to meet the demands of cloud-scale agentic inference.

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Thought leadership October 6 5 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms.

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Thought leadership September 10 9 min read

The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI

This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.

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Thought leadership September 10 5 min read

The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization

Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations.

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Thought leadership September 9 7 min read

Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads

Zone resiliency isn’t a single number you apply to a whole workload.

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News September 8 3 min read

Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer.

Thought leadership September 3 5 min read

Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment

The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production.

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Announcements September 3 4 min read

GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days.

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Thought leadership September 2 7 min read

The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents

AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge retrieval, tool selection, memory, and agent performance at scale.

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