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If any of you are like me, you will have heard Microsoft making a lot of noise around something they are calling a frontier firm, and how they are transforming themselves into one. If you cut through the marketing noise, you find a clear spine running through it. AI becomes abundant and accessible, what Jared… Continue Reading →
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Probably because I have been spending a lot of time in various hospitals over the last month or so, this article from the ever-reliable Microsoft Research team, really caught my attention. In collaboration with Drexel University and the Broad Institute, they’ve developed an AI assistant aimed at helping genetic professionals diagnose rare diseases. It’s not… Continue Reading →
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This week’s updates across Microsoft Cloud reflect a clear direction: deeper AI integration, stronger security, and scalable innovation. From Copilot’s expanding agent capabilities to Azure’s Agent Factory and Microsoft Research’s Dion optimizer, the pace of transformation is accelerating. I’ve curated the most impactful updates from Microsoft’s own blogs and documentation—and taken a deeper dive into… Continue Reading →
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I’ve just finished reading the latest IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2025, and I’ll be honest—it’s one of the most eye-opening editions I’ve seen in years. Not just because the global average cost of a breach has finally dipped (down to $4.44M), but because of what’s driving that change—and what’s threatening to… Continue Reading →
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Introduction: From AI Hype to Practical Enablement Over the past year, I’ve had countless conversations with clients and colleagues about the promise of Microsoft 365 Copilot. The excitement is real—but so are the challenges. How do we scale Copilot across departments with different needs? How do we manage costs without slowing innovation? And how do… Continue Reading →
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In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of threats requires constant innovation and adaptation. Microsoft has once again demonstrated its commitment to empowering security operations teams with the introduction of a groundbreaking update to its cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform, Microsoft Sentinel. Announced in July 2025, the new Microsoft Sentinel data… Continue Reading →
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Brad Smith from Microsoft recently shared a blog post titled ‘Microsoft’s New European Digital Commitments (https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/european-digital-commitments/). This broad whitepaper covered a range of topics, including data centre expansion to provide scale for AI services and announcements around digital resiliency, security, encryption, and data and privacy commitments. However, two key points caught my attention: First, Microsoft… Continue Reading →
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IBM produces two reports every year focused on cybersecurity: the X-Force Threat Intelligence Index and the Cost of a Data Breach Report. Both are invaluable sources of data for anyone interested in cybersecurity. The first of these reports, the Threat Intelligence Index, was released on April 17th. While I have not digested everything it contains,… Continue Reading →
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Are the data security challenges of today different to those of the past? Introduction One of the areas impacting the adoption of Generative AI (substitute Generative for Agentic if you prefer) is that organisations are concerned about the status of data security across their estate, especially in the unstructured areas where AI can arguably provide… Continue Reading →
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As regular readers will know, I have posted on several elements of this topic previously, but I decided to wrap this up with a more holistic (I do dislike that word) view, based on my experience of working in this area for the past 15 years or so. What is Failure, or to put it… Continue Reading →
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One of the benefits of being on the autistic spectrum is that ideas tend to linger in my mind far longer than they probably should. As a result, I am still quite obsessed with The Stack article (https://www.thestack.technology/warren-buffetts-geico-repatriates-work-from-the-cloud-continues-ambitious-infrastructure-overhaul/) I read about a month ago, which discussed cloud repatriation. It provided an example from Geico, where… Continue Reading →
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I had the good fortune to have lunch at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport earlier in the week, which got me thinking about what happened to TWA and why there was still a branded hotel. I didn’t get an answer to the latter, and several reasons were provided for TWA’s eventual demise. Still, one… Continue Reading →
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