AI infrastructure is a system, and every part of that system is connected. Decisions made in silicon and systems design influence how infrastructure is sourced, deployed, and operated across the fleet. And what we learn once that hardware is running can inform what we...

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms. We believe this recognition reflects our vision for the future of industrial operations: moving toward intelligent systems that...

Every new generation of cloud infrastructure creates two jobs. We must deploy more capable systems quickly, and we must manage the hardware they replace responsibly. Even though these jobs happen behind the scenes, the results matter to Microsoft Azure customers....

Azure continuously advances through new infrastructure generations, platform capabilities, services, and innovations that lead the industry in performance, security, reliability, and efficiency. Our Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle policy guides how we manage these...

The best model for your business will keep changing. Adopting it should move your business forward, not send your team back to rebuild the architecture around it. As models advance, organizations need the freedom to choose the right model for each workload, and an...

This first article in our resilience series draws on a conversation with Mark Russinovich about how resilience is changing in the AI era and what it takes to continuously validate it at scale. What surprises me most about resilience failures is how ordinary the drift...