Azure Storage—A look back and a look forward

By Dustin Ward

Last January, we shared our reflection of 2023 and outlook for 2024—and what a year it has been! Microsoft has been at the forefront of groundbreaking AI solutions, empowering end customers, developers and IT Professionals in the cloud while accelerating enterprise migrations to Azure. Azure Storage has evolved to bolster the evolution of Microsoft AI…

Boost processing performance by combining AI models

By Dustin Ward

Leveraging the strengths of different AI models and bringing them together into a single application can be a great strategy to help you meet your performance objectives. This approach harnesses the power of multiple AI systems to improve accuracy and reliability in complex scenarios. In the Microsoft model catalog, there are more than 1,800 AI…

Explore the business case for responsible AI in new IDC whitepaper

By Dustin Ward

I am pleased to introduce Microsoft’s commissioned whitepaper with IDC: The Business Case for Responsible AI. This whitepaper, based on IDC’s Worldwide Responsible AI Survey sponsored by Microsoft, offers guidance to business and technology leaders on how to systematically build trustworthy AI. In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, AI has emerged as a transformative force,…

Achieving AI-powered success: Learnings from Cloud Cultures Season 3 

By Dustin Ward

Cloud technology plays an important role in how organizations around the world are modernizing and innovating. Equally important is the vision that business and technology leaders bring to the process. Shaped by culture, traditions, and values, it’s our lived experience that often forms the foundation for innovation. Technology helps bring the vision to life. In…

Microsoft Cost Management—2024 year in review 

By Dustin Ward

Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as…