Microsoft brought a slew of networking updates to its Azure Local hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, including SDN features and network adapter additions. The biggest networking update ...

To date, Azure Local has typically been marketed as an on-prem or Edge offering, in which customers put Microsoft hardware in their own data centers, thus creating a sovereign and private cloud ...

Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger ...

‘Both on the private MEC and the public MEC, there is definitely a need for the partner ecosystem beyond the ISVs,’ Yousef Khalidi tells CRN. ‘Some of these solutions require a certain amount of ...

Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses ...

One of the interesting aspects of moving to a top-down, application-centric way of working is rethinking how we do networking. Much as the application model first abstracted away physical ...

In May 2026, Microsoft Azure unveiled major advancements—including Azure Boost, confidential computing for Service Bus Premium, and enhanced AI agent capabilities—that reinforced its role in the $129 ...

Microsoft 365 customers are having trouble connecting to the service and seeing degraded performance due to networking infrastructure issues across Microsoft’s Azure cloud regions globally. “We’re ...