#enterprise-strategy

#enterprise-strategy

The genAI revolution is not just an upgrade to your existing tech; it's a fundamental paradigm shift. Unlike a search engine that finds existing information, genAI creates new content-text, images, code, you name it. For students, it's a brainstorming partner. For faculty, it's a teaching assistant. For administrators, it's a tool to automate countless tasks. But the scattered, unguided use of free AI tools creates a chaotic environment filled with risks around academic integrity, data privacy, and equity.

"That's like, one of the dumbest things I've ever heard," he said. "They're probably the least expensive employees you have, they're the most leaned into your AI tools." "How's that going to work when ten years in the future you have no one that has learned anything," he added. "My view is that you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it, just as much as you ever have."

On July 29, 2025, enterprises relying on Microsoft Azure's East US region experienced an unexpected disruption that reverberated across numerous organizations. The root cause wasn't a network breach, misconfiguration, or other complex technical mishap. It was something shockingly basic: a lack of capacity.