Greg brings with him over two decades of engineering, product and GTM experience. He has held leadership positions at premier tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Adobe, as well as earlier growth-stage companies such as Twilio and Confluent.
At Microsoft he was involved in the initial creation and launch of Visual Studio as well as the .NET Framework.
At Google he led the product management team for the creation of Google Cloud Platform, growing annual revenue from a few tens of millions of dollars to over 10 billion dollars. He also helped create Google’s Office of the CTO, where he served as a strategic advisor to C-level executives at The Walt Disney Company, Spotify, and more.
Latest Content by Greg DeMichillie
Analyst Report
January 24, 2026 · by Greg DeMichillie
Microsoft IQ: Look at the Details, Not the Branding
Microsoft IQ is a marketing label for unrelated AI initiatives that solve different problems and sometimes overlap with existing products.
Analyst Report
January 12, 2026 · by Greg DeMichillie
Foundry Gets New Name, Anthropic Models
Azure AI Foundry is getting a new name (Microsoft Foundry) along with support for large language models (LLMs) from companies...
Analyst Report
December 5, 2025 · by Greg DeMichillie
Azure Local: Vision Still Ahead of the Product
Upcoming releases address some long-standing adoption blockers. However, Azure Local is still more complex to deploy than Windows Server, and...
Roadmap
Updated: November 10, 2025 · by Greg DeMichillie
Azure Local Roadmap
Roadmap for Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft's host OS based on Windows Server for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), licensed via subscription as...
Analyst Report
November 10, 2025 · by Greg DeMichillie
Image Analysis Service Retiring
The Image Analysis service within Azure AI Vision will be retired on Sept. 25, 2028.
Analyst Report
November 10, 2025 · by Greg DeMichillie
Azure Local to Gain Air-Gap Support
A preview of support for air-grapped deployments indicates Microsoft is serious about Azure Local becoming it's primary way of managing...
Roadmap
November 1, 2025 · by Multiple Authors
Database, Analytics, and AI/ML Roadmap
Describes the near-term and long-term roadmaps for Microsoft database (proprietary and open-source), analytics, AI, and machine learning products. This roadmap...
Roadmap
Updated: September 3, 2025 · by Multiple Authors
Compute, Networking, and Infrastructure Roadmap
Describes the components and services of Azure and on-premises datacenter components, including virtual machines, networking, and storage. It discusses the...
Roadmap
Updated: August 19, 2025 · by Greg DeMichillie
Network Security Roadmap
Azure provides services to filter and monitor network traffic, including firewalls, protection against denial-of-service attacks, and management tools to centralize...
Roadmap
Updated: August 19, 2025 · by Greg DeMichillie
Batch Roadmap
Azure Batch allows customers to distribute workloads over groups of VMs to leverage Azure's scalability and utility computing model to...