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 Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – November 2025
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – November 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 (November 2025 – Weeks: 47 and 48)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (November 2025 – Weeks: 47 and 48)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…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: Microsoft Ignite 2025 Special Edition
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: Microsoft Ignite 2025 Special EditionThis 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…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (November 2025 – Weeks: 45 and 46)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (November 2025 – Weeks: 45 and 46)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…
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Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – October 2025
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – October 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 (November 2025 – Weeks: 43 and 44)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (November 2025 – Weeks: 43 and 44)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 RHEL Software Reservations Now Available on Azure with Updated Pricing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software reservations are available again on…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (October 2025 – Weeks: 41 and 42)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (October 2025 – Weeks: 41 and 42)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 Integrated HSM (preview) Azure is releasing Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM), a built-in HSM cache and cryptographic accelerator designed…
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Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (October 2025 – Weeks: 39 and 40)
Read article →: Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (October 2025 – Weeks: 39 and 40)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 Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028 Microsoft announces the retirement of the AV36 node type for Azure…
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Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – September 2025
Read article →: Azure Hybrid Management & Security: What’s New and Insights from the Field – September 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…