Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic’s powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry

By Dustin Ward

At Microsoft we believe that intelligence and trust are the core requirements of agentic AI at scale. Built on Azure, Microsoft Foundry brings these capabilities together on a secure, scalable cloud foundation for enterprise AI. Today, with the launch of Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry, we bring even more capability to agents that increasingly learn…

Enhanced storage resiliency with Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone-redundant service 

By Dustin Ward

In today’s globally connected environment, even minutes of downtime can disrupt supply chains, hinder customer experiences, and affect regulatory commitments costing organizations thousands of dollars per minute and risking lasting reputational harm. Data resiliency is no longer optional—it is the foundation that keeps mission‑critical applications running, teams productive, and compliance intact. Organizations must ensure continuous…

PostgreSQL on Azure supercharged for AI

By Dustin Ward

We are almost a century removed from when a group of computer scientists at Dartmouth College coined the term “Artificial Intelligence.” In the 75-year span, AI has become common vernacular, making inroads from imagined to mainstream. Today, we see entire industries being disrupted and entire ecosystems revolutionized by AI. To keep up, the way developers…

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region support to enable AWS account access and managed application use in additional AWS Regions. With this feature, you can replicate your workforce identities, permission sets, and other metadata in your organization instance of IAM Identity Center connected to an external identity provider (IdP),…