Cloud native is now AI-native: Engineering production-ready AI

CNCF brought together a roundtable with experts in the cloud native ecosystem. This roundtable discussion explores the role of platform maturity, security by design, interoperability, and evolving cloud-native capabilities in production-ready AI. Connect with RIPEVA LLC to discuss how these trends may influence your organization's technology strategy.

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Your AI Strategy Is Leaving Billions on the Table

Explore why AI is speeding up individuals but not teams, and how to cut your AI Fragmentation Tax with better context, workflows, and culture. Share this with your network and contact RIPEVA LLC to discuss how you can help customers turn AI into a true team catalyst.

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Guide for Securing the AI Powered Enterprise. Issue 2: Strategies for Governing AI

Effective AI governance is the foundation for secure, responsible AI adoption. Microsoft's "Strategies for Governing AI" eBook provides practical guidance for creating a unified governance framework that balances innovation, security, compliance, and trust. Discover proven strategies for governing data, AI, and regulatory requirements while preparing your organization to scale AI with confidence. 📘 Complete the short form to download your complimentary copy of the eBook today.

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Microsoft Agent 365 - The control plane for AI agents

See every AI agent in your organization from one place. This video shows how Microsoft Agent 365 works as a unified enterprise control plane, giving you observability into what your agents are doing along with the governance and security controls to keep them in bounds as their numbers grow. Watch the video to see how Microsoft Agent 365 brings your agent workforce under consistent enterprise oversight.

Copilot Cowork: Sales and Finance Workflows

See what Copilot Cowork does when nobody's watching. In this video, Microsoft's Nicole Herskowitz demonstrates how Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork automates multistep, recurring sales and finance workflows, handling data analysis, content creation, and file organization in the background. Watch the video to see Copilot Cowork run a full process from start to finish.

Top 3 Challenges in Securing and Governing Data for the Era of AI

Find out why adding more data security tools raises risk instead of lowering it. This whitepaper draws on Microsoft research with data security, governance, compliance, and privacy leaders to show how fragmented platforms, evolving AI regulations, and limited data visibility create exposure-and how a unified approach with Microsoft Purview addresses all three. To get the research and recommendations, download the whitepaper by completing the form.

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Cloud security teams are in turmoil as attack surfaces expand at an alarming rate

This ITPro article examines how expanding cloud attack surfaces are creating operational strain for security teams. It highlights the need for stronger governance and visibility. Reach out to RIPEVA LLC to explore approaches to managing cloud security at scale.

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Introducing Microsoft Agent 365 - The control plane for agents

Give your AI agents the same oversight you give your people. This video introduces Microsoft Agent 365, a control plane that extends your existing identity, security, and compliance infrastructure to the agents working across your organization. Watch how one place to deploy, manage, and govern agents keeps a growing agent workforce accountable and secure.

Everything you need to know about Copilot Cowork

Get more from Copilot Cowork while managing costs. How can you take advantage of Copilot Cowork while keeping your budget in focus? Watch this quick video to understand how Cowork pricing works, estimate spend based on expected usage, and explore controls designed to help you manage costs as adoption scales.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment

This IDC MarketScape excerpt names Microsoft a Leader in unified AI governance for its responsible AI-by-design, automated compliance across 100+ frameworks, and security integration across Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Defender. Download the report for details on evaluation criteria and expert buying guidance.

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Enabling the next generation of AI data centers

Exploring the infrastructure trade-offs behind AI data center growth

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mobilezone switches on an agentic transformation with Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Customer Stories

How does a retailer cut IT resolution time in half? This customer story shows how Mobilezone replaced a legacy chatbot and rigid IT forms with customer and IT agents built on Microsoft Copilot Studio with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The agents deliver multilingual, context-aware support, handle more than 1,600 chats monthly, and establish a scalable foundation for agentic AI. Read the story to learn from Mobilezone's experience.

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Enterprise Storage Is Rebuilding Itself Around AI-Ready Data

As AI initiatives expand, organizations are rethinking how enterprise data is stored, managed, and accessed. This Forbes article explores why AI-ready storage is becoming an important foundation for future innovation and operational success. Connect with RIPEVA LLC to discuss how these trends may influence your organization's technology strategy.

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Copilot Studio Agent Builder

What does it take to build an agent that knows your processes? This video walks through Microsoft Copilot Studio agent builder, showing how you use natural language to define an agent's role, connect it to data sources such as SharePoint, and refine its tasks for specific processes. Watch the video to see how quickly a custom, intelligent agent comes together in Copilot Studio.

Organize your week with Copilot Cowork

Organize your week around what matters. This video introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork and how it uses Work IQ to analyze meeting priorities, resolve scheduling conflicts, automate follow-up tasks, and book focus time. Watch the video to see how Copilot Cowork turns a busy schedule into a workable one.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

See what security looks like when it fits the way small businesses work. This video follows a small business owner using Microsoft 365 Business Premium to keep collaboration productive while protecting company data from phishing, ransomware, and other threats. Watch the video to see comprehensive security and productivity working together.

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender

What a unified security platform returns in dollars and hours. The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study of Microsoft Defender, commissioned by Microsoft, models a composite organization that reaches 242% ROI and a net present value of $12.6 million over three years, with payback in under six months. Read the study for a framework you can use to estimate the returns you can drive in your environment with Microsoft Defender.

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Cloud FinOps Market Projected to Reach $50.18 Billion by 2035 as AI Workloads and Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization Drive Enterprise Adoption

As organizations expand AI initiatives and embrace multi-cloud environments, managing cloud spend has become a strategic business priority. This article explores how FinOps is helping organizations improve financial accountability, optimize cloud investments, and maximize the value of AI-driven infrastructure. Connect with RIPEVA LLC to discuss how these trends may influence your organization's technology strategy.

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HSBC drives innovation in Power Platform security | Microsoft Customer Stories

How does a global bank move fast on new applications without putting sensitive financial data at risk? This customer story shows how HSBC uses Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Dataverse security features, including virtual network support and customer-managed keys, to strengthen data protection and improve control and transparency. Read the story to learn from HSBC's experience enabling teams to innovate while meeting strict regulatory requirements.

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Enterprise AI's ROI reckoning: budget discipline, open-weight models, and industrial acquisitions are reshaping how operators deploy

Your AI budget is about to face the same questions as headcount. This MarketScale article, "Enterprise AI's ROI reckoning," examines three forces changing how operators deploy AI: tighter budget governance, open-weight models that shift inference economics, and industrial acquisitions that alter vendor roadmaps. It also shows why deployment architecture now matters more than benchmark scores. Read the article to see where your next AI decision deserves a closer look.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot: Skills in Copilot Cowork

This video walks through Skills in Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, the reusable custom capabilities you create to handle role-specific tasks and workflows. Instead of prompting from scratch each time, you define how the work should be done once, then reuse it. Watch the video to see how Skills make Copilot Cowork more useful the more it learns about your role.

Icertis cuts SOC incidents by 50% with Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Customer Stories

Icertis supports customers in regulated industries and needed to scale security without adding headcount. This customer story shows how the contract intelligence company deployed Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Entra to protect generative AI applications and enforce compliance, cutting alert triage time by 80%. Read the story to learn from Icertis's experience.

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What every company can learn from Frontier firms leading the AI revolution

What separates the organizations winning with AI from everyone else? The IDC InfoBrief, "What every company can learn from Frontier firms leading the AI revolution," draws on a global survey of over 4,000 leaders to show how Frontier Firms scale generative and agentic AI, invest in customized solutions, and strengthen governance to drive growth and differentiation. For the data behind superior AI returns, download the InfoBrief by completing the form.

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What is Microsoft Defender XDR? - Microsoft Defender XDR

Disconnected security signals can make threats harder to understand and slower to contain. This Microsoft Learn tutorial explores how Microsoft Defender XDR coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications--helping security teams connect signals, investigate attacks, and respond more effectively. Read the tutorial to learn how Microsoft Defender XDR can help you build more coordinated, efficient security operations.

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Lessons from the cloud era: Why agentic AI demands a new security approach

As AI becomes part of enterprise cloud environments, organizations are applying lessons learned from cloud adoption to build more secure and resilient AI architectures. This SDxCentral article explores why cloud-era thinking remains highly relevant in the age of agentic AI. Reach out to RIPEVA LLC to discuss how your cloud strategy can evolve alongside AI innovation.

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