Dell showcases agentic AI capability for sovereign, AI-native telecom cloud infrastructure, setting a new standard for AI-native network operations.   ​  ​Dell showcases agentic AI capability for sovereign, AI-native telecom cloud infrastructure, setting a new standard for AI-native network operations. Telecommunications Blog | Dell

Discover how Dell & AGNTCY, now part of the Linux Foundation, are shaping open, interoperable AI for businesses worldwide.   ​  ​Discover how Dell & AGNTCY, now part of the Linux Foundation, are shaping open, interoperable AI for businesses worldwide. AI Solutions Blog | Dell

Join Dell at NVIDIA GTC 2026 for AI Innovation.   ​  ​Join Dell at NVIDIA GTC 2026 for AI Innovation. Events Blog | Dell

At WEST 2026, trusted AI and data governance show new ways to build confidence and advance mission outcomes.   ​  ​At WEST 2026, trusted AI and data governance show new ways to build confidence and advance mission outcomes. Events Blog | Dell

AI is reshaping the endpoint, but the jargon hasn’t kept up. This guide cuts through the noise and explains how AI PCs, Copilot+ PCs and AI workstations differ so IT can plan with intent.   ​  ​AI is reshaping the endpoint, but the jargon hasn’t kept up. This guide cuts through the noise and explains how AI PCs, Copilot+ PCs and AI workstations differ so IT can plan with intent. Dell Ambassadors Blog | Dell

Virtual reality is transforming design reviews. When paired with Dell Pro Max workstations and NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs, VR becomes mission‑critical.   ​  ​Virtual reality is transforming design reviews. When paired with Dell Pro Max workstations and NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs, VR becomes mission‑critical. Dell Pro Max Blog | Dell

How Dell ObjectScale powers seamless connectivity and unmatched telecommunications performance.   ​  ​How Dell ObjectScale powers seamless connectivity and unmatched telecommunications performance. ObjectScale Blog | Dell

Dell unveils its first Cloud PC device built for Windows 365, delivering secure, high-performance computing with simplified IT management.   ​  ​Dell unveils its first Cloud PC device built for Windows 365, delivering secure, high-performance computing with simplified IT management. Launch Blog | Dell

250 documents is all it takes to compromise an LLM. Here’s how you can protect yourself and your team.   ​  ​250 documents is all it takes to compromise an LLM. Here’s how you can protect yourself and your team. LLM Blog | Dell

Cyberattacks target small businesses every 11 seconds. Learn how Dell helps implement a security strategy that scales as you grow.   ​  ​Cyberattacks target small businesses every 11 seconds. Learn how Dell helps implement a security strategy that scales as you grow. Launch Blog | Dell

AI is transforming business, but scaling it needs a fast data foundation. Dell and VAST Data take very different approaches.   ​  ​AI is transforming business, but scaling it needs a fast data foundation. Dell and VAST Data take very different approaches. AI Solutions Blog | Dell

OTEL unveils AI-Assisted Telecom Testing, automating validation with predictive insights to accelerate 5G rollout.   ​  ​OTEL unveils AI-Assisted Telecom Testing, automating validation with predictive insights to accelerate 5G rollout. Launch Blog | Dell

Transform telecom networks with Dell and Nokia’s AI-ready infrastructure, enabling faster innovation and streamlined operations.   ​  ​Transform telecom networks with Dell and Nokia’s AI-ready infrastructure, enabling faster innovation and streamlined operations. Launch Blog | Dell

From Six Siloed Tiers to One Unified Solution: PowerScale Outpaces the Competition with Unmatched Speed, Efficiency, and Scalability   ​  ​From Six Siloed Tiers to One Unified Solution: PowerScale Outpaces the Competition with Unmatched Speed, Efficiency, and Scalability AI Solutions Blog | Dell

As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk conditions. Microsoft’s approach to sovereignty is grounded in enabling enterprises, public sectors and regulated industries to participate in the digital economy securely, independently and on their own terms. The Microsoft Sovereign Cloud brings together productivity, security and cloud workloads to span both public and private environments. Customers can choose the right control posture for each workload, through a continuum of sovereign options protecting against fragmenting their architecture or increasing operational risk. Trust is built on confidence: confidence that data stays protected, controls are enforceable and operations can continue under real-world conditions.   To support these confidential environments, Microsoft offers full stack capabilities that support customers across connected, intermittently connected and fully disconnected modes. Today’s expansion of capabilities includes three major updates: Azure Local disconnected operations (now available) – Organizations can now run mission-critical infrastructure with Azure governance and policy control, with no cloud connectivity, optimizing continuity for sovereign, classified or isolated environments.  Microsoft 365 Local disconnected (now available) – Core productivity workloads, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Skype for Business Server can run fully inside the customer’s sovereign operational boundary on Azure Local, keeping teams productive even when disconnected from the cloud.  Foundry Local adds modern infrastructure capabilities and support for large AI models – Organizations can now bring large AI models into fully disconnected, sovereign environments with Foundry Local. Using modern infrastructure from partners like NVIDIA, customers with sovereign needs will now be able to run multimodal models locally on their own hardware, inside strict sovereign boundaries enabling powerful, local AI inferencing in fully disconnected environments.  Run connected or fully disconnected. Sovereign Private Cloud unifies Azure Local, Microsoft 365 Local and Foundry Local, bringing modern infrastructure, productivity and support for large AI models to any operational boundary. This delivers a truly localized full stack experience built on Azure Local infrastructure and Microsoft 365 Local workloads, designed to stay resilient across any connectivity condition, with large models being part of Foundry Local extending the stack to run advanced multimodal models locally, securely, even when fully disconnected. Customers can now help maintain uninterrupted operations, keep mission critical workloads protected and apply consistent governance and policy enforcement, while keeping data, identities and operations within their sovereign boundaries. Azure Local runs critical infrastructure locally, even when disconnected  For workloads with specialized requirements, Azure Local provides the on-premises foundation with consistent Azure governance and policy controls. With Azure Local disconnected operations, management, policy and workload execution stay within the customer-operated environments, so services continue running securely even when environments must be isolated or connectivity is not available. Using familiar Azure experiences and consistent policies, organizations can deploy and govern workloads locally without depending on continuous connection to public cloud services. Azure Local is designed to scale with mission-critical needs from smaller deployments to larger footprints that support data-intensive and AI-driven workloads. Customers can start fast, expand over time and maintain a unified operational model, all within their sovereign boundary. Operating in disconnected environments surfaces constraints that go beyond traditional cloud assumptions: External dependencies may be unacceptable, connectivity may be intentionally restricted and operational continuity is a business imperative.  “The availability of Azure Local disconnected operations represents a breakthrough for organizations that need control over their data without sacrificing the power of the Microsoft Cloud. For Luxembourg, where digital sovereignty is not just a principle but a strategic necessity, this model offers the resilience, autonomy and trust our market expects. By combining Microsoft’s technological leadership with Proximus NXT’s sovereign cloud expertise, we are enabling our customers to innovate confidently — even in fully disconnected mode,” said Gerard Hoffmann, CEO Proximus Luxembourg.  Microsoft 365 Local keeps productivity and collaboration available in fully disconnected environments  As sovereign environments move into disconnected environments, keeping people productive becomes just as critical as keeping infrastructure online. Building on more than a decade of delivering and supporting these services, Microsoft 365 Local disconnected brings that continuity to the productivity layer, delivering Microsoft’s core server workloads — Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Skype for Business Server supported through at least 2035 — directly into the customer’s sovereign private cloud.   With Microsoft 365 Local, teams can communicate, share information and collaborate securely within the same controlled boundary as their infrastructure and AI workloads. Everything runs locally, under customer-owned policies, with full control of data resiliency, access and compliance. By operating with Azure-consistent management and governance, customers get the productivity experience they rely on, designed to stay resilient and secure even when offline.  Bringing large models and modern infrastructure to Foundry Local  With the availability of larger models and modern infrastructure as part of the Foundry Local portfolio, Microsoft is enabling customers with highly secure environments the ability to run multimodal, large models directly inside their sovereign private cloud environments. This brings the richness of Microsoft’s enterprise AI capabilities to on-premises systems, complete with local inferencing and APIs that operate completely within customer-controlled data boundaries.   Expanding beyond small models, the integration of Foundry Local with Azure Local is specifically designed to support large-scale models utilizing the latest GPUs from partners such as NVIDIA. Microsoft will provide comprehensive support for deployments, updates and operational health. Even as inferencing demands increase over time, customers retain complete control over their data and hardware.   Choice and control without added complexity  Customers facing strict sovereignty and regulatory requirements are clear that a fully disconnected sovereign private cloud is a key business need. Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud is designed to meet these needs head-on, enabling secure, compliant operations even in environments with no external connectivity. At the same time, we recognize that disconnected environments are not one-size-fits-all; some customers operate across connected, hybrid and disconnected modes based on mission, risk and regulation. Our approach helps customers to meet strict sovereign requirements in fully disconnected scenarios without compromising simplicity, while retaining flexibility where connectivity is possible. Together, Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local and Foundry Local help organizations choose where workloads run and how environments are managed, while standardizing governance and operational practices across connected and disconnected deployments.  Get started  Azure Local disconnected operations and Microsoft 365 Local disconnected are now available worldwide, and large models on Foundry Local are available to qualified customers.  Explore the Microsoft Sovereign Cloud   Learn more about Azure Local disconnected operations  Douglas Phillips leads global engineering efforts for Microsoft’s specialized, sovereign, and private clouds. He is responsible for Microsoft’s global strategy, products and operations that bring Microsoft’s industry-leading solutions, including Azure, our adaptive cloud portfolio and Microsoft 365 collaboration suite, to customers with additional sovereignty, security, edge and compliance requirements.  The post Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected  appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog. ​As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk conditions. Microsoft’s approach to sovereignty is grounded in enabling enterprises, public sectors and regulated industries to participate in the digital economy securely, independently and on their own terms. The Microsoft Sovereign Cloud brings together productivity, security and cloud workloads to span both… The post Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected  appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.  Featured, The Official Microsoft Blog, Azure, Foundry, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, Sovereign Private Cloud The Official Microsoft Blog

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and members of his executive team shared the following communications with employees today. SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE Gaming has been part of Microsoft from the start. Flight Simulator shipped before Windows, and you can practically ray‑trace a line from DirectX in the ’90s to the accelerated‑compute era we’re in today. As we celebrate Xbox’s 25th year, the opportunity and innovation agenda in front of us is expansive. Today we reach over 500 million monthly active users, are a top publisher across all platforms, and continue to innovate across gaming hardware, content, and community, in service of creators and players everywhere. I am long on gaming and its role at the center of our consumer ambition, and as we look ahead, I’m excited to share that Asha Sharma will become Executive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft Gaming, reporting to me. Over the last two years at Microsoft, and previously as Chief Operating Officer at Instacart and a Vice President at Meta, Asha has helped build and scale services that reach billions of people and support thriving consumer and developer ecosystems. She brings deep experience building and growing platforms, aligning business models to long-term value, and operating at global scale, which will be critical in leading our gaming business into its next era of growth. Matt Booty will become Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer, reporting to Asha. Matt’s career reflects a lifelong commitment to games and to the people who make them. Under his leadership, Microsoft Gaming has grown to span nearly 40 studios across Xbox, Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, and King, which are home to beloved franchises including Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Candy Crush, and Fallout. Together, Asha and Matt have the right combination of consumer product leadership and gaming depth to push our platform innovation and content pipeline forward. Last year, Phil Spencer made the decision to retire from the company, and since then we’ve been talking about succession planning. I want to thank Phil for his extraordinary leadership and partnership. Over 38 years at Microsoft, including 12 years leading Gaming, Phil helped transform what we do and how we do it. He expanded our reach across PC, mobile, and cloud; nearly tripled the size of the business; helped shape our strategy through the acquisitions of Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax, and Minecraft; and strengthened our culture across our studios and platforms.  I’ve long admired Phil’s unwavering commitment to players, creators, and his team, and I am personally grateful for his leadership and counsel. He will continue working closely with Asha to ensure a smooth transition. We have extraordinary creative talent across our studios and a global platform that is second to none. I’m excited for how we will capture the opportunity ahead and define what comes next, while staying grounded in what players and creators value. Please join me in congratulating Asha and Matt on their new roles, and in thanking Phil for everything he has done for Microsoft and for our industry. PHIL SPENCER MESSAGE When I walked through Microsoft’s doors as an intern in June of 1988, I could never have imagined the products I’d help build, the players and customers we’d serve, or the extraordinary teams I’d be lucky enough to join. It’s been an epic ride and truly the privilege of a lifetime. Last fall, I shared with Satya that I was thinking about stepping back and starting the next chapter of my life. From that moment, we aligned on approaching this transition with intention, ensuring stability, and strengthening the foundation we’ve built. Xbox has always been more than a business. It’s a vibrant community of players, creators, and teams who care deeply about what we build and how we build it. And it deserves a thoughtful, deliberate plan for the road ahead. Today marks an exciting new chapter for Microsoft Gaming as Asha Sharma steps into the role of CEO, and I want to be the first to welcome her to this incredible team. Working with her over the past several months has given me tremendous confidence. She brings genuine curiosity, clarity and a deep commitment to understanding players, creators, and the decisions that shape our future. We know this is an important moment for our fans, partners, and team, and we’re committed to getting it right. I’ll remain in an advisory role through the summer to support a smooth handoff. I’m also grateful for the strength of our studios organization. Matt Booty and our studios teams continue to build an incredible portfolio, and I have full confidence in the leadership and creative momentum across our global studios.  I want to congratulate Matt on his promotion to EVP and Chief Content Officer. As part of this transition, Sarah Bond has decided to leave Microsoft to begin a new chapter. Sarah has been instrumental during a defining period for Xbox, shaping our platform strategy, expanding Game Pass and cloud gaming, supporting new hardware launches, and guiding some of the most significant moments in our history. I’m grateful for her partnership and the impact she’s had, and I wish her the very best in what comes next. Most of all, to everyone in Microsoft Gaming, I want to say “thank you.” I’ve learned so much from this team and community, grown alongside you, and been continually inspired by the creativity, courage, and care you bring to players, creators, and to one another every day. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve built together over the last 25 years, and I have complete confidence in all of you and in the opportunities ahead. I’ll be cheering you on in this next chapter as Xbox’s proudest fan and player. Phil XBL: P3 ASHA SHARMA MESSAGE Dear team, Today I begin my role as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. I feel two things at once: humility and urgency. Humility because this team has built something extraordinary over decades. Urgency because gaming is in a period of rapid change, and we

In 2020, Microsoft announced a moonshot commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 — accelerating work across our company to advance the partnerships and technologies needed to advance sustainability for our businesses, our customers and the world. A key milestone on this journey was our aim to match 100% of our annual global electricity consumption with renewable energy(1) by 2025. Today, we are pleased to share that Microsoft has achieved this milestone(2). This progress helps drive investment into the power systems where we operate, expand clean energy supply and advance broader energy innovation. Over a decade of investment: 40 gigawatts of new renewable energy contracted What began in 2013 with a single 110 megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) in Texas — a small first step to demonstrate how corporate procurement could scale clean energy(3) — has evolved into one of the largest clean energy portfolios in the world. This first deal not only supported Microsoft’s early cloud services but also set in motion a decade of commercial partnerships and learning-by-doing that served to demonstrate how corporate demand for advanced energy solutions can help to achieve a more affordable and sustainable power system, while supporting reliability for customers. Since our carbon negative announcement in 2020, we have contracted 40 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy supply across 26 countries, working with more than 95 utilities and developers across 400+ contracts and counting. To put that amount in perspective — that’s enough energy to power about 10 million US homes. Of that contracted volume, 19 GW are now online, delivering new clean energy supply to the power grid, while the remainder are slated to come online over the next five years. Our new renewable energy procurement continues to deliver significant environmental benefits, including the reduction of Microsoft’s reported Scope 2 carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 25 million tons(4) and the mobilization of billions of dollars’ worth of private investment in regions where we operate. Catalyzing market investment through bankable, repeatable models Microsoft is among the early pioneers in developing technical and commercial practices that help advance bankable, repeatable and scalable procurement tools suitable for each market. Our clean energy purchasing navigates a global patchwork of power market designs, requiring creativity in how we balance cost, time to market and project sizing in our portfolio across planning, contracting and management. Our work has benefited from a broad coalition of partners helping to build this market together. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, more than 200 global corporations collectively purchased nearly 200 GW of clean energy around the world since 2008. Working alongside other clean energy buyers — as well as hundreds of utilities, manufacturers, financiers, developers and engineers — we have helped reduce transaction costs, expand developer access to financing and streamline procurement approaches that other buyers can adopt. This global flywheel of partnership, investment, technology and policy innovation is expected to continue to facilitate billions of dollars’ worth of investment into infrastructure and jobs. And as we’ve seen repeatedly, when Microsoft sends a clear market signal for world-class, first-of-a-kind technologies and infrastructure, the power sector rises to the challenge. Our procurement over the past decade has demonstrated that partnerships, communities and innovation are essential ingredients that help to accelerate first-of-a-kind technologies and infrastructure at scale. Scaling partnerships to scale infrastructure Critical to Microsoft’s success in expanding digital infrastructure and supporting our local communities is our ability to build trusted partnerships with the over 95 global energy suppliers that support our clean energy portfolio. We have sourced clean energy through multiple requests for proposal or information, bilateral engagements and clean tariffs to evaluate over 5,000 unique carbon-free energy projects around the world. Today, Microsoft has six energy company partners with which we have over 1 GW of contracted renewable energy capacity, and more than 20 energy supplier partners where each partner has at least five separate renewable energy projects with Microsoft — evidence of the durable, repeatable relationships necessary to scale clean energy. Combining scale with speed, Microsoft’s landmark 10.5 GW framework agreement with Brookfield sends a long-term, 2030 demand signal to the market that enables developers to raise funding more efficiently, bolster supply chains, hire engineers and construct world-class energy infrastructure. Putting communities first Our renewable energy procurement has mobilized billions of dollars in private investment, supported thousands of jobs across the communities where we operate and delivered meaningful co-benefits. Through partnerships with developers and nonprofit organizations, we’ve worked to embed community-driven benefits into our energy portfolio. These benefits include robust infrastructure, economic inclusion and support for community-focused organizations. Our support for communities shows up in projects like our 500 MW PPA with Sol Systems, or our 250 MW PPA with Volt Energy Utility that provided local training and jobs, as well as grants to community nonprofit organizations and habitat restoration. We’ve also signed over 1.5 GW of distributed solar, bringing clean energy directly into hundreds of communities around the world. Landmark agreements like our 500 MW offtake with Pivot Energy, or our 270 MW offtake with PowerTrust are expected to foster employment, energy cost savings and grid resilience in communities across the United States, Mexico and Brazil. More details on the above examples and our approach to community benefits in clean energy agreements can be found in a dedicated Microsoft whitepaper. Innovation unlocks new markets and pathways Microsoft’s clean energy procurement continues to play an important role in catalyzing technical, commercial and regulatory innovation. Our commercial efforts have helped lower barriers to entry into new markets and expand access into multi-technology contracts that accelerate decarbonization. In Japan, Microsoft signed one of the first corporate PPAs in the country’s restructured power market. Our 25 MW, 20-year agreement with Shizen represents the first single-asset virtual PPA executed in the country, which helped pave the way to over 2GWs of corporate procurement since 2024, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Alongside opening new markets, we have structured several multi-technology offtakes in nascent markets for corporate procurement. In India, Microsoft purchased a combined

HPE’s Private Cloud AI day 1 speed may sound enticing but watch out for Day 2 gridlock.   ​  ​HPE’s Private Cloud AI day 1 speed may sound enticing but watch out for Day 2 gridlock. AI Solutions Blog | Dell

Why PowerScale’s Discrete Architecture Leads – and Why Others Are Only Now Trying to Catch Up.   ​  ​Why PowerScale’s Discrete Architecture Leads – and Why Others Are Only Now Trying to Catch Up. PowerScale Blog | Dell