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Refoundry Earns the Microsoft Solution Partner Designation for Azure Data & AI
Refoundry is proud to announce that we have earned the Microsoft Solution Partner designation for Azure Data & AI, recognizing our proven ability to help organizations harness the power of their data, modernize analytics, and deploy AI solutions that drive real business outcomes, using Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning,…
You Already Have the Tools to Govern AI. You’re Just Not Using Them That Way.
Most organizations treating AI governance as a future investment are missing something important: the infrastructure is likely already paid for. If your organization runs Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 licensing with Entra, Purview, and Defender, you have the foundational building blocks for enterprise AI governance sitting in your environment right now. Agent 365 doesn’t replace…
TL;DR: Trustworthy Agents Need Governance, and That’s Where the Real Work Starts
The short version: AI agents don’t just answer questions anymore. They plan, act, use your tools, and run in a self-directed loop with a lot less human oversight than a chatbot. That autonomy is what makes them valuable. It’s also what makes them risky. Anthropic’s latest piece, Trustworthy agents in practice, does a good job…
Refoundry Named to MSP Summit’s 2026 MSPs to Watch List, Recognizing 130 Exceptional Managed Service Providers Representing the Future of the Industry
Prestigious Designation Celebrates Refoundry’s Operational Excellence and Strategic Vision in the era of AI. Chicago, IL – June 2026– Refoundry today announced that it has been named to MSP Summit’s 2026 MSPs to Watch list, an elevated list recognizing 130 exceptional managed service providers that demonstrate not only world-class operational performance but also strategic vision in the era of AI. This prestigious designation celebrates organizations that have mastered the…
What Agent 365 Actually Unlocks and Why Timing Matters
Most organizations think Agent 365 is for later. After pilots. After use cases. After value is proven. That instinct is understandable and often wrong. Agent 365 matters most at the point where things start working, not before. Agent 365 Is Not an Agent Builder It is a control plane. A registry for every agent, including…
Agent 365 and The Microsoft Frontier Suite: The Missing Piece in Your Agentic Strategy
Frequently when I’m with clients, we’ll talk about the reasons why most of their AI projects are floundering — and 9 times out of 10 it’s not because of the technology, but because of their inability to manage that technology. So today I want to dig into something specific: why the Microsoft Frontier Suite (E5…
SIEM is Not Dead — But It’s No Longer the Center of Gravity
For years, the playbook was simple: Centralize everything into a SIEM. Security logs. Application logs. Performance telemetry. Network noise. If it could produce a log… it got shipped. Platforms like Splunk and QRadar became the catch-all data sinks for the enterprise. And for a while, that made sense. But that model doesn’t hold up anymore.…
Governing AI Requires More Than Controls — It Requires Visibility
Last week, I wrote about why blocking AI is easy—but governing it is where most organizations fail. That post focused on permissioning: what really happens the moment a user flips an AI connector from Needs approval to Always allow. This article is about what comes next. Because once you allow it… you need to see…
Refoundry Earns the Microsoft Threat Protection Specialization
The Refoundry team has earned the Microsoft Threat Protection Specialization, a designation that verifies proven, hands-on expertise in deploying Microsoft Threat Protection and Microsoft Cloud App Security workloads. What the specialization actually means To earn a Threat Protection Specialization, Microsoft requires partners to demonstrate real-world deployment experience (verified by customers who can speak to…
