CLOUDY MUSINGS

I have been attending Microsoft events in one form or another for a long time, and I have learned that the first wave of conference reactions is usually not where the real story lives. The first wave is always loud. It's the keynote clips, the social posts, the product names, the demos, and the inevitable rush to figure out which announcement is the announcement everyone should be talking about. That's useful to a point, but I usually find the more interesting story a little

One of the more interesting things about enterprise AI adoption is how quickly people become comfortable with these tools. We spent years teaching users to be skeptical of links, cautious with downloads, thoughtful about where sensitive data goes, and generally a little suspicious of shiny new software. Then AI assistants showed up, proved useful in about thirty seconds, and a lot of that caution went straight out the window. Suddenly people are pasting customer contracts in

a.k.a. Here's Your Full Guide to Understanding Azure Cloud Governance Without Losing Your Mind or Sanity Cloud governance is one of those topics that sounds straightforward until you start hearing people use the same five words to describe completely different things. You walk into a meeting and someone says, “We should solve this with Azure Policy,” and someone else responds, “We need a Blueprint,” and a third person chimes in with, “This belongs in our Service Group model.”

Like a lot of my posts lately, this one kicked off with a customer question. An innocent question at that, but the kind that makes you...

Azure Policy allows you to create, assign, and manage policies in Azure (that definition feels a little like one of those awful...