Zachary Hester

As cloud adoption continues to grow, data sovereignty has become one of the most important priorities for organizations across industries—especially in the public sector and highly regulated environments. Microsoft’s latest update to its Sovereign Cloud portfolio reflects this shift, introducing new capabilities that give customers more control over their data, compliance, and AI workloads than […]

Artificial intelligence has become the headline topic in nearly every leadership meeting. But as the excitement settles, one question remains:“What measurable business value are we getting from AI?” That’s exactly what Microsoft’s new whitepaper — Unlocking AI’s Impact: Measuring Adoption and Business Value with Copilot Analytics — aims to answer. It introduces Copilot Analytics, part

Microsoft just announced the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery, a new managed service that brings visibility, intelligence, and natural language insights to enterprise data stored in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. For organizations with sprawling data estates spread across regions, accounts, and subscriptions, this is big news—and for small and mid-sized

Effective July and August 2025, Microsoft is implementing major licensing and pricing updates across its on-premises server portfolio, impacting both renewals and new deployments. These updates affect SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, and the Client Access License (CAL) Suites. What’s Changing Beginning mid-2025, the following adjustments take effect: 10% price increase for

In July, GitHub Copilot introduced a powerful new capability: App Modernization for .NET, now available in public preview. This feature brings AI-driven modernization tooling directly into Visual Studio, enabling enterprises to accelerate and automate the migration of legacy .NET applications to Microsoft Azure. What It Does The new Copilot capability analyzes existing application codebases to

Microsoft has announced the public preview of secure tunneling for private Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters via Azure Bastion, introducing a more streamlined and secure way to connect to Kubernetes APIs. This new capability allows developers and administrators to establish direct tunnels from their local machines to private AKS clusters without relying on VPNs, public

Microsoft is making one of the largest infrastructure investments in its history—an $80 billion commitment through 2028—to expand AI-optimized data centers and Azure cloud regions worldwide. This initiative reinforces Microsoft’s position as a global leader in AI, cloud computing, and sustainable infrastructure. The roadmap includes: New hyperscale data centers powered by custom Microsoft silicon. Sovereign

Microsoft has announced the public preview of the Deep Research Agent within the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, marking a major step forward in enterprise AI research automation. Powered by OpenAI’s o3-deep-research model and tightly integrated with Bing, the Deep Research Agent enables organizations to build intelligent agents that autonomously plan, research, analyze, and generate