Observed Signal · May 14, 2026 · Partnership · Source: https://martechseries.com/feed/ · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Netwrix Adopts Microsoft Azure for 1Secure Platform
Netwrix announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft, adopting Microsoft Azure as a core cloud platform to support growth and scaling of its 1Secure™ data and identity security platform. Netwrix said it will use Azure to improve scalability, performance, and security for platform delivery, data processing, and security services, enabling capabilities such as data discovery, identity governance, and risk visibility across hybrid and cloud environments. The announcement includes comments from Netwrix CEO Grady Summers and Alistair Speirs, General Manager of Azure Global Infrastructure at Microsoft, describing the move as aligning with customers’ cloud commitments and helping organizations manage access to sensitive data.
A vendor partnership and cloud adoption announcement between a security vendor and Microsoft is relevant to MarTech/AdTech infrastructure and identity management but is not industry-shifting.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Netwrix announced it is expanding collaboration with Microsoft and adopting Microsoft Azure as a core cloud platform.
- Azure will be used to enhance scalability, performance, and security of Netwrix's 1Secure™ data and identity security platform.
- Netwrix plans to leverage Azure to support core capabilities including data discovery, identity governance, and risk visibility across hybrid and cloud environments.
- Grady Summers (CEO, Netwrix) and Alistair Speirs (General Manager, Azure Global Infrastructure at Microsoft) were quoted about the collaboration.
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Commvault and Microsoft Announce Multi-Year Azure Partnership
Commvault announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Commvault’s AI and cyber resilience platform as a native ISV service on Microsoft Azure. The collaboration will let Azure customers discover, provision, and manage Commvault resilience capabilities directly within the Azure platform, aiming to simplify procurement, onboarding, and operations while supporting resilient AI adoption. The companies plan joint go-to-market activities including co-selling, solution development, and integrated sales motions. Customers will be able to buy Commvault Cloud through the Microsoft Marketplace and apply usage toward Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACC).
New Relic Celebrates Microsoft Partnership at Build 2026
New Relic showcased developments from its long-term strategic partnership with Microsoft at Build 2026, highlighting double-digit year-over-year growth in customer committed bookings through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace for the period ending March 31, 2026. The company presented AI- and agent-driven integrations that embed observability into Azure and GitHub workflows, including the New Relic Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Azure SRE Agents, New Relic Monitoring for Microsoft Foundry, and integrations with GitHub Copilot and GitHub Actions. New Relic also promoted New Relic Monitoring for SAP Solutions—an agentless, RISE with SAP–certified observability solution—available via the Microsoft Marketplace. Thomas Lloyd, New Relic’s Chief Business and Operations Officer, was quoted describing the collaboration as focused on helping customers adopt AI at scale while automating incident detection and remediation.
Commvault Expands Cloud Rewind for Azure Resilience
Commvault announced enhancements to its Cloud Rewind capability, expanding Microsoft Azure resource coverage to protect and orchestrate recovery of cloud-native and AI-driven applications. The update increases Azure resource coverage threefold to now cover 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types, adds Protection Groups to unify application data and cloud configuration into an air-gapped recovery experience, and introduces policy-based, tag/region/type enrollment for dynamic at-scale protection. The release highlights recovery simulations and isolated (air-gapped) testing to validate readiness before incidents occur. The announcement cites industry recovery-time data and includes customer and analyst commentary on the need for holistic cloud application recovery.
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