As regulatory obligations, resilience requirements, and the need for greater control over data and infrastructure continue to grow, we are seeing increasing interest in Azure Local from governments, ...

Today, the Azure Arc team is pleased to announce that Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc is now generally available for Windows Server 2016. By connecting your Windows Server 2016 ...

Estimated read: ~4 minutes Confidential computing has become foundational to how regulated and sovereign organizations run their most sensitive workloads. Today, we're excited to announce that Conf...

Please find the recording for the monthly Azure Arc Server Forum on YouTube! During the June 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, we discussed: Arc Server AI Agent assists with onboarding and troublesh...

As organizations modernize datacenters and accelerate migration from legacy virtualization platforms, flexibility in storage architecture has become a key requirement. Customers increasingly want to ...

Beginning April 1 2026, Microsoft introduced a consistent pricing model for Extended Security Updates (ESU) for SQL Server and Windows products, including SQL Server 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB ...

Please find the recording for the monthly Azure Arc Server Forum on YouTube! During the May 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, we discussed: Private Preview of Windows Server 2016 Extended Security U...

Foundry Local on Azure Local lets you run open-source models directly on your own Azure Local cluster, behind an OpenAI-compatible AP. It's the same experience you've gotten used to in the cloud, but...

Not every AI workload can run in the cloud. For many of our customers, data needs to stay within defined boundaries, connectivity may be limited or absent, and latency, governance, and auditability a...

In today’s connected world, customers expect instant, context-rich interactions, even in environments where cloud connectivity isn’t guaranteed. That’s where Retrieval-Augmented Generation at the edg...