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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

Real World IT: Azure Local and Windows Server 2025 News and More from Microsoft ignite

Ernie is joined by fellow MVP Ben Thomas to talk about the news of Azure Local subsuming Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server 2025 now GA with a ton of awesome features, and new management capabilities by Arc-enabling your infrastructure. Time Stamps: 0:00 – Intro 1:30 – Ben’s experience with SCVMM, WSSD, S2D, Azure Stack Hub, Real World IT: Azure Local and Windows Server 2025 News and More from Microsoft ignite

Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local

Today Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Local. It’s Microsoft’s new Azure distributed infrastructure that’s enabled by Azure Arc. Azure Stack HCI is now a part of Azure Local. The same features and functionality will continue to be offered for the existing servers in the Azure Stack HCI catalog under a new form factor grouping Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local