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Building Confidence in Azure Workload Continuity: Strategic Approaches to Reliability, Resiliency, and Recoverability

Building Confidence in Azure Workload Continuity: Strategic Approaches to Reliability, Resiliency, and Recoverability

Reference: How to design reliable, resilient, and recoverable workloads on Azure Meeting the expectations of today’s digital business landscape requires more than promises of uptime. Over the years, I’ve seen organisations struggle with the nuances of reliability, often conflating it with high availability or disaster recovery. The distinction is not academic—it shapes the fabric of… Continue Reading →

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Claude Sonnet 4.6: Delivering Frontier AI Performance for Scalable Enterprise Workflows

Claude Sonnet 4.6: Delivering Frontier AI Performance for Scalable Enterprise Workflows

Read the original article: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale The arrival of Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry marks a pivotal moment for organisations seeking to operationalise advanced AI at enterprise scale. As I examine this release, I see clear signals that we are moving beyond experimental deployments towards AI as… Continue Reading →

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The Rise of Digital Impersonation: Strategic Lessons from Microsoft’s Incident Response

The Rise of Digital Impersonation: Strategic Lessons from Microsoft’s Incident Response

Unpacking the Threat of Synthetic Identities The evolving landscape of cyber threats continues to challenge technology leaders in fundamental ways. Microsoft’s recent incident response analysis, detailed in their blog post, brings attention to a sophisticated and troubling vector: attackers using fake identities to gain privileged access within enterprise environments. This tactic, while not new in… Continue Reading →

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New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure

New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure

The cloud landscape is shifting. As I see it, the demands facing organisations with mission-critical workloads—whether in manufacturing, healthcare, or government—have grown well beyond simple scalability. The latest updates from Microsoft Azure underscore a strategic pivot towards adaptive infrastructure, offering new pathways to balance innovation, resilience, and operational autonomy. In this analysis, I’ll break down… Continue Reading →

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Watching Two Keynotes, Seeing Two Visions: AWS re:Invent vs Microsoft Ignite 2025

Watching Two Keynotes, Seeing Two Visions: AWS re:Invent vs Microsoft Ignite 2025

There’s something oddly fascinating about watching two tech keynotes a fortnight apart. AWS and Microsoft both had their big moments this year, and the contrast couldn’t be sharper. AWS opened with an engineering-heavy monologue about silicon, sovereignty, and scale—teraflops and nanometers galore—while Microsoft leaned into business transformation, sprinkling buzzwords like confetti but backing them up… Continue Reading →

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Agentic AI: A Quiet Revolution in Cloud Migration

Agentic AI: A Quiet Revolution in Cloud Migration

Let’s face it, cloud migration and app modernisation aren’t exactly the most glamorous parts of digital transformation. They’re necessary, often complex, and usually come with more spreadsheets than anyone would like to admit. But every so often, something genuinely useful comes along that’s worth paying attention to. Microsoft’s latest update to Azure brings agentic AI into the… Continue Reading →

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This week in Microsoft Azure: 6th May 2022

Virtual Network NAT health checks generally available via Resource Health Support for Resource Health checks with VNet Network Address Translation (NAT) helps organisations monitor the health of their NAT gateways as well as diagnose or troubleshoot outbound connectivity.  With Azure Resource Health, you can:  View a personalized dashboard of the health of your NAT gateway  Set… Continue Reading →

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This week in Azure

This week in Azure Microsoft rolls back change to Azure AD Graph API Microsoft announced in March and again this week that due to user feedback the planned decommissioning of the Azure AD Graph API, originally scheduled for the 30th of June 2022 will be delayed until the end of the year

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