Ayberk Ozturk
Ayberk Ozturk is Senior Director of Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering at Microsoft, working on Azure Failure Prediction and Detection for mission-critical workloads.
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Aug 21, 2026
Goran CondricHOST
So what is an Azure failure prediction and detection, you know? What it can do for customer.
Ayberk OzturkGUEST
Um, Goran, as you mentioned and introduced, uh, in the past, uh, customers reported failures which let, let the diagnose hardware issues in offline, and we quickly recovered these nodes.
Ayberk OzturkGUEST
And as also you call out, this is, uh, reactive, and often it put us in a firefighting situation.
Ayberk OzturkGUEST
The challenges we faced, first, we had mission-critical customer escalations triggered by unexpected hardware failures.
Ayberk OzturkGUEST
Second, and this is also the ongoing problem as well, global supply chain shortages, it meant replacement parts weren't always available quickly.
Goran CondricHOST
So I mean, I know for the SAP system that they wouldn't even noticed when something like this happened, as an example, right?