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Takeaway: Brain is Azure’s AI-powered cloud reliability intelligence system: an AIOps system that sits as an intelligent layer on top of Azure Resource Graph and fuses platform telemetry, AI/ML models, service dependencies, and customer impact into a single, continuously updated view of how every service, region, and workload is performing.

Poor database performance is never just a database problem. In enterprise teams, it shows up as missed service-level agreements (SLAs), delayed releases, frustrated development teams, and rising operational risk. The performance problem compounds further in business impact, often resulting in frustrated customers, retention and conversion risk, and lost revenue.

Enterprise storage migrations are rarely just about copying data. They are about protecting business continuity, maintaining performance, managing cost, and giving teams confidence when terabytes or petabytes of data sit at the heart of critical applications. That confidence is difficult to build when migration planning is fragmented.

We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads. As organizations increasingly embrace the agentic era for AI, customer demands for compute are reshaping the architecture of cloud infrastructure as we know it.

Together, Microsoft and SAP are helping enterprises transform operations, decision-making, and innovation at scale on Azure. Together, Microsoft and SAP are helping enterprises transform operations, decision-making, and innovation at scale on Azure. At SAP Sapphire 2026, Microsoft and SAP continue to build on a deep, decades-long partnership—one that is increasingly centered on a shared vision for how enterprises innovate in the age of AI.

Microsoft and Red Hat show how Azure Red Hat OpenShift powers modernization and production AI with secure, scalable enterprise governance. At Red Hat Summit 2026, Microsoft and Red Hat highlight how Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift supports modernization and production AI workloads—helping organizations move from AI pilots to production systems with consistent governance, security, and scale.

Security for cloud infrastructure is no longer defined by a single control, product, or boundary. Modern threats target identity, software supply chains, control planes, networks, and data simultaneously. This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency.

Published Mar 18, 2026 11 min read By , Corporate Vice President, Azure Data We're bring attendees together to share real experiences and solve challenges side-by-side. Only together can we move into meaningful results. Welcome to the third annual FabCon and our first ever SQLCon here in Atlanta, Georgia. With nearly 300 workshops and sessions, this joint event will highlight how they are bringing the power of Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Fabric together to create a single, unified platform.

Our mission is to make PostgreSQL the most performant, scalable, and enterprise-ready open database platform available. With Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the newly introduced Azure HorizonDB, we’re delivering on that vision. In today’s digital economy, business leaders face a relentless challenge: how to deliver innovation, scale, and resilience without spiraling costs or compromising performance.

We’re announcing the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, bringing high‑performance open model inference into Azure. This integration reflects Microsoft Foundry’s broader direction: providing a single place where developers can not only run open models efficiently but also customize and operationalize them as part of a complete enterprise‑ready AI lifecycle.