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How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success

Modernizing data center infrastructure isn’t just an IT upgrade—it’s a strategic investment in outcomes. In this episode of Data Insights, Allyson Klein speaks with Jeniece Wnorowski and Justin Baker, Systems Administrator Lead at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, about how the school is rethinking infrastructure to better support students, faculty, and a lean IT team. Rose-Hulman’s … How Rose-Hulman Modernized Its Data Center for Student Success

Transforming City Operations: How Villa Park and DataON Deliver Real-Time Decisions with Edge RAG

Moran Assaf, Senior AI Product Manager, Microsoft November 18, 2025 In today’s connected world, customers expect instant, context-rich interactions- even in environments where cloud connectivity isn’t guaranteed. That’s where  Edge Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) at the edge comes in. Edge RAG, enabled by Azure Arc, combining local data retrieval with intelligent reasoning to  empowers conversational experiences that are fast, secure, and deeply personalized. Together … Transforming City Operations: How Villa Park and DataON Deliver Real-Time Decisions with Edge RAG

What’s New in Azure Local (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Microsoft Ignite Session ID: BRK147 November 20, 2025 Meena Gowdar, Senior Director, Microsoft Mohammed Khalid, Senior Director, Solutions Architecture, GlaxoSmithKine Dean Parron, Vice President, Microsoft Organizations across industries are transforming the way they operate by bringing the power of Azure into their own environments with Azure Local. Discover what’s new with Azure Local, including the … What’s New in Azure Local (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Scaling Kubernetes securely and reliably with AKS (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Microsoft Ignite Session ID: BRK120 November 20, 2025 Brenan Burns, Microsoft Jorge Palma, Principal PM Lead, Microsoft Durga Rachapudi, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft As Kubernetes and AI adoption grow, managing your clusters at scale becomes a strategic imperative. We’ll share practical lessons from operating large clusters with AKS, including how to keep things reliable, efficient … Scaling Kubernetes securely and reliably with AKS (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Overview of Azure Migrate based VMware migration for Azure Local

Azure Migrate is a central hub for tools to discover, assess, and migrate on-premises servers, apps, and data to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure Local is a hyperconverged infrastructure system solution that hosts virtualized Windows and Linux workloads in a hybrid environment. You can use the Azure Migrate platform to move on-premises VMware VMs to … Overview of Azure Migrate based VMware migration for Azure Local

The DataON Difference: Why It Matters

Karena Li, Partner Account Manager, DataON 10/7/25 After three and half years at DataON as a partner account manager, I’ve learned that technical expertise alone doesn’t win customers—it’s how you deliver when things go wrong. And lately, I’ve been hearing the same thing from customers over and over: working with DataON is a breath of … The DataON Difference: Why It Matters

Microsoft Named a LEADER in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the Third Straight Year

With Azure Local, Microsoft continues to be a leader in Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI), offering a complete, single-stack hybrid cloud solution that brings Azure’s cloud capability into your own data center or edge locations. Azure Local integrates with Azure Arc and the Azure portal so managing Azure Local feels just like managing resources in the … Microsoft Named a LEADER in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the Third Straight Year