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 (March 2026 – Weeks: 09 and 10)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (March 2026 – Weeks: 09 and 10)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 Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity, and support for large AI models in fully disconnected environments Microsoft has expanded Microsoft Sovereign…
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Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – February 2026
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – February 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 (February 2026 – Weeks: 07 and 08)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (February 2026 – Weeks: 07 and 08)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 Encryption at host and disk encryption sets now supported in node auto-provisioning Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters now support both Encryption at…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (February 2026 – Weeks: 05 and 06)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (February 2026 – Weeks: 05 and 06)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…
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Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – January 2025
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – January 2025Once 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 (January 2026 – Weeks: 03 and 04)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (January 2026 – Weeks: 03 and 04)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…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (January 2026 – Weeks: 01 and 02)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (January 2026 – Weeks: 01 and 02)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…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (December 2025 – Weeks: 51 and 52)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (December 2025 – Weeks: 51 and 52)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…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (December 2025 – Weeks: 49 and 50)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (December 2025 – Weeks: 49 and 50)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…