Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
We’re proud that Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
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The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents
Autonomous workflows, powered by real-time feedback and continuous learning, are becoming essential for productivity and decision-making.
Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale
Microsoft is contributing new standards across power, cooling, sustainability, security, networking, and fleet resiliency to advance innovation.
Agent Factory: Designing the open agentic web stack
Unlock enterprise value with an open, secure, and interoperable AI agent ecosystem.
How Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are powering real-world solutions, delivering performance and efficiency results
Cobalt 100 systems are designed to deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness for a wide range of workloads.
Agent Factory: Creating a blueprint for safe and secure AI agents
Azure AI Foundry brings together security, safety, and governance in a layered process enterprises can follow to build trust in their agents.
Agent Factory: Connecting agents, apps, and data with new open standards like MCP and A2A
The real power of agents comes from their ability to connect to each other, to enterprise data, and to the systems where work gets done.
Agent Factory: From prototype to production—developer tools and rapid agent development
It’s no longer whether you can build an agent—it’s how fast and seamlessly you can go from idea to enterprise-ready deployment.
Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI
Ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of AI agents is critical. That’s where agent observability comes in.
Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes
Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools.
Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization
Frontier Firms are moving beyond experimentation and into scaled transformation—powered by human-agent teams—by having agents as members of their team, reinventing processes, providing employees with new skills to scale their impact, and using a modern cloud foundation.
Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns
Instead of simply delivering information, agents reason, act, and collaborate—bridging the gap between knowledge and outcomes. Read more about agentic AI in Azure AI Foundry.