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 ...

Learn how Azure Local brings a secure cloud experience on-premises to help organizations satisfy strict digital sovereignty ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...