Reaching for the Cloud

Honest Microsoft cloud insight, without the marketing noise.

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Reaching for the Cloud is a fortnightly newsletter for architects, technical leads, and IT decision-makers working in the Microsoft cloud. Each issue takes one topic, develops an argument, and gives you an honest view of where things actually stand, without the marketing gloss. The Microsoft cloud moves fast. Not everything that gets announced matters. Not everything that matters gets announced. This newsletter tries to tell the difference. Written by Richard Hogan, Global Chief Architect in IBM's Microsoft Practice, with over two decades of enterprise technology experience across Financial Services, public sector, and beyond. Published every two weeks. No spam. No sponsored content.

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What Your Agent Remembers, and Who Controls It

As AI agents move from experimental to operational, the question of what they remember, how accurately they remember it, and who controls that memory is becoming one of the more important architectural decisions organisations will make. It is also one of the least examined. This piece maps the territory, from the trade-offs between different memory architectures to the compliance, governance, and security implications that follow.

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