Inside Track

cloud networking

January 30, 2025

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David Hirning

Keeping our network infrastructure healthy at Microsoft with an employee-built AI agent

Like many global companies, our network engineering environment here at Microsoft is gigantic. It spans 88 countries, more than 700 buildings, 64,000 devices, 7,500 Microsoft Azure Virtual Networks, and nearly 150 lab sites. It’s a system that serves more than…
January 5, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Moving Microsoft’s global network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has been part of the enterprise solution architecture at Microsoft for more than eight years. One thing has remained constant throughout our journey—from early lift-and-shift migrations to recent transformations to cloud-first solutions—the network. “In the early stages, migrating…
December 5, 2023

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Preet Kaur

Deploying global remote VWAN connectivity with Azure VWAN and Azure VPN

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Tap here to read the full series. In the modern workplace, Microsoft employees access their work from diverse locations. To…