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Thought leadership October 6 5 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms.

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Thought leadership September 10 9 min read

The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI

This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry.

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Thought leadership September 10 5 min read

The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization

Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations.

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Thought leadership September 9 7 min read

Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads

Zone resiliency isn’t a single number you apply to a whole workload.

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News September 8 3 min read

Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer.

Thought leadership September 3 5 min read

Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment

The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production.

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Announcements September 3 4 min read

GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days.

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Thought leadership September 2 7 min read

The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents

AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge retrieval, tool selection, memory, and agent performance at scale.

Best practices August 27 6 min read

Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs

Compare managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL across cost, control, security, resilience, scalability, and operational effort.

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Thought leadership August 26 8 min read

The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost

Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers that act on every request, before a single line of agent logic changes.

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Thought leadership August 12 7 min read

The Economics of Agent Optimization: From pilots to measurable returns

Learn how AI cost management helps organizations move from AI pilots to measurable ROI through greater visibility, governance, and optimization.

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Thought leadership July 15 5 min read

Azure Databricks delivers proven business value

Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value.

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