Enterprise infrastructure decisions around hybrid, edge, and sovereign cloud are no longer modernization exercises. They are long-term architectural commitments being shaped by AI adoption, data residency requirements, and governance mandates that cloud-only strategies cannot satisfy. Meena Gowdar and Justin Slane from Microsoft join Six Five at HPE Discover 2026 to examine how the Microsoft and HPE partnership is helping enterprises extend cloud capabilities, address sovereignty requirements, and modernize mission-critical workloads on a foundation built for what comes next.