INSIGHTS
Ideas, perspectives and lessons from the field.
I write about the evolution of enterprise technology — from hybrid cloud, infrastructure and architecture to governance, security, resilience and AI — with a focus on what changes, why it matters and how it should influence the decisions we make.
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (September 2026 – Weeks: 35 and 36)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (September 2026 – Weeks: 35 and 36)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 VM Image Builder in sovereign and air-gapped clouds Azure VM Image Builder is now Generally Available (GA) in Azure Government,…
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Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – August 2026
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – August 2026Once again this month, I’m back with my recurring series focused on the evolution of Azure management and security services, with a special focus on hybrid and multicloud scenarios enabled by Azure Arc and enhanced by the use of Artificial Intelligence. This monthly series aims to: Provide an overview of the most relevant updates released…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (August 2026 – Weeks: 33 and 34)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (August 2026 – Weeks: 33 and 34)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 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms Microsoft has been named a Leader in…
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Why Hybrid Infrastructure Is Not a Transitional Phase
Read article →: Why Hybrid Infrastructure Is Not a Transitional PhaseIn meetings with customers and IT decision makers, I still often hear things like: “We’re only keeping the datacenter for legacy workloads,” or “Sooner or later we’d like to move everything to Azure.” These are understandable statements. For many years, after all, the journey to the cloud was told as an almost linear progression: from…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (August 2026 – Weeks: 31 and 32)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (August 2026 – Weeks: 31 and 32)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 Enclave (preview) Azure Enclave is now available in Public Preview, providing a platform-managed approach for deploying and operating secure, isolated,…
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Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – July 2026
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – July 2026Once again this month, I’m back with my recurring series focused on the evolution of Azure management and security services, with a special focus on hybrid and multicloud scenarios enabled by Azure Arc and enhanced by the use of Artificial Intelligence. This monthly series aims to: Provide an overview of the most relevant updates released…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (July 2026 – Weeks: 29 and 30)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (July 2026 – Weeks: 29 and 30)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 Networking IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway Azure VPN Gateway now supports IPv6 inner traffic across VPN tunnels in dual-stack configurations, enabling…
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Azure Local Unleashed: Why We Wrote a Book on the Evolution of Hybrid Infrastructure
Read article →: Azure Local Unleashed: Why We Wrote a Book on the Evolution of Hybrid InfrastructureThere are professional projects that begin with a formal plan, and others that grow gradually from conversations, shared experiences, and a recurring observation. Azure Local Unleashed belongs to the second category. Over the past few years, both Silvio Di Benedetto and I have spent a significant amount of time discussing hybrid infrastructure with customers, technology…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (July 2026 – Weeks: 27 and 28)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (July 2026 – Weeks: 27 and 28)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 Landing Zone becomes an official Microsoft product Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) is now an official Microsoft product, owned and driven…