Datacenter Management

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure Compute AMD v6 confidential VMs (DCa/ECa v6) now available in additional regions AMD-based confidential virtual machines in the DCa v6 and ECa…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025–2026…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft’s strategic AI datacenter planning for large-scale NVIDIA Rubin deployments Microsoft stated that its long-range Azure datacenter strategy has been designed…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms Microsoft has been recognized as a…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Perth Azure Extended Zone Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of the Perth Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Last week marked an important milestone with Microsoft Ignite, which brought a wealth of key updates and innovations from Microsoft. To explore the…

This post is a special edition of my regular “Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates” series, dedicated entirely to the wave of news coming from Microsoft Ignite 2025. As every year, Ignite condenses in a few days an impressive number of announcements across infrastructure, networking, management, AI, and sovereign cloud – so this…

This blog post series highlights the key announcements and major updates related to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Azure Local, as officially released by Microsoft in the past two weeks. Azure General Azure MCP Server Azure MCP Server is now generally available, bringing the power of the cloud directly into agent-based and AI-driven…