Microsoft’s vision for making AI an active, operational partner in cloud management moved from concept to concrete at Ignite: Azure Copilot and the broader idea of agentic cloud operations promise to fold specialized AI agents into the lifecycle of cloud workloads—migration, deployment...
Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 pushed a clear signal to partners: the era of agentic, AI-first cloud operations is here, and Azure’s newest toolset — from Azure Copilot agents to Microsoft Foundry’s Control Plane and the Microsoft Agent Factory — is being built to put partners in the center of...
Iberdrola and Microsoft’s new Spanish PPAs signal a clear acceleration of the tech‑energy marriage: two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPAs) have been signed to cover 150 MW of renewable offtake tied to Iberdrola wind projects in Spain, while the deal sits inside a broader partnership that...
Energy from Microsoft Ignite landed as more than a keynote crescendo — it was a practical roadmap for the agentic enterprise, and a call to action for cloud architects, developers, and Windows administrators to translate platform promises into governed, measurable systems that deliver real...
Microsoft has quietly moved Azure Copilot out of the sidebar and into the engine room: at Ignite 2025 Microsoft unveiled an agentic Azure Copilot — a managed orchestration layer and a family of purpose-built AI agents designed to plan, reason, and (with guardrails) act across the cloud...
Microsoft’s moves at Ignite this week — a multi‑billion dollar expansion of relationships with Anthropic and Nvidia, together with a fresh strategic pitch for agentic enterprise AI — mark a decisive moment in the company’s transition from AI experimentation to large‑scale commercial deployment...
Microsoft has started rolling out a preview of a new Deployment Agent for Azure Copilot, a conversational — yet action-oriented — assistant that turns high-level deployment goals into step-by-step, production‑ready infrastructure plans and generates Infrastructure-as-Code artifacts to accelerate...
Microsoft’s Ignite stage this week delivered a sweeping, coordinated push to make Azure the backbone of the “agentic” enterprise — a platform where models, data, and fleets of AI agents are intended to work together under enterprise-grade security, governance, and observability to generate...
Microsoft’s Ignite keynote pushed Azure from platform to operational partner, unveiling a sweeping set of AI-first infrastructure upgrades and the arrival of agentic operations through Azure Copilot—an ecosystem designed to put purpose-built AI agents at the center of migration, deployment...
Microsoft’s latest push to make Copilot an operational partner — not just an assistant — marks a clear inflection point: Azure Copilot is being extended with a family of specialized agents and an orchestration layer that together promise to automate major parts of the cloud lifecycle for DevOps...
Microsoft has repositioned Azure Copilot from a conversational helper into an agentic orchestration platform to run cloud operations at scale, unveiling a family of specialized AI agents and an orchestration engine designed to automate deployment, migration, optimization, observability...
Microsoft’s move to give Azure Copilot agentic teeth in a private preview signals a turning point: Copilot is no longer content to be a conversational aide — it’s being positioned as an automated operator inside the cloud itself, able to plan, reason and execute multi‑step cloud tasks under...
Infosys’ new AI Agent for energy operations is a purposeful step toward industrializing agentic AI across drilling, production and field operations — promising faster analysis of well logs, automated report generation, and predictive alerts while leaning on Infosys’ Topaz and Cobalt portfolios...
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Microsoft’s OpenAI tie-up is large and strategically important, but the argument that Microsoft has become irrecoverably dependent on OpenAI is overstated — and Google and Amazon catching up quickly enough to displace Microsoft’s AI advantage is more complicated than headlines suggest...
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Microsoft has opened public preview of Azure Storage Discovery, a fully managed service that gives organizations a centralized, tenant‑wide view of their Azure Blob Storage estate and pairs that visibility with AI‑driven, natural‑language interrogation via Azure Copilot to speed cost, security...
NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear and ambitious step to turn enterprise AI promise into large-scale production deployments, pairing NTT DATA’s consulting heft with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Agent Service and Copilot capabilities to deliver Agentic...
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Microsoft’s latest unveiling of Azure Storage Discovery in public preview has captured the attention of IT professionals and cloud architects alike. Promising an unprecedented approach to visibility over sprawling Blob Storage deployments, this tool, now available to all Azure users, marks a...
Microsoft’s unveiling of Azure Storage Discovery—with deep integration of Copilot’s natural language capabilities—marks a pivotal advancement in the management of cloud data estates. Announced on August 6, the new fully managed service enters public preview with a strategic mission: to create a...
The recent merger between Henson Group and myCloudDoor to form ALIANDO marks a significant consolidation in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, positioning the new entity as a formidable global Microsoft partner. This strategic alliance aims to enhance cloud solutions and cybersecurity services...
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When Visa and Microsoft convened in Lagos for the Microsoft AI Skills Week Hackathon, it marked more than just another tech event. It was a strategic declaration: harnessing generative AI and agentic technologies will define the future of Nigeria’s booming fintech sector. As global leaders in...
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