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Microsoft moves toward autonomous, self-repairing data center platforms.
Foundry enables long-running AI agents with persistent memory.
Control Plane provides guardrails, IDs, and threat-aware oversight.
Microsoft unveiled a new series of services to address some longstanding problems with managing data centers at its annual Ignite conference, Tuesday. The company, which well understands these problems because it runs some of the world's largest data centers, has a new multi-tiered solution that may give all of us IT folks a little peace.
Enterprise data centers are huge, complex operations. Enterprise networks alone consist of a bouillabaisse of distributed services, third-party APIs, proprietary and open source cloud services, and local services. All of these face constant large and small updates, along with constant integrations with new capabilities (or re-integrations because someone changed their API). It never stops.
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Exacerbating the situation is a sense of alert fatigue, maintenance debt, observability gaps, and talent shortages, not to mention the constant threat of external attack.
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