Cloud, today, has become all pervasive and enabled organizations to enhance their business agility and efficiency. However, there are still concerns around moving completely to public cloud owing to data sovereignty or regulatory considerations. To manage this complexity, Microsoft believes enterprises have to approach cloud as a model – not a place. Aligned to the same, Microsoft has recently announced first Technical Preview of Microsoft Azure Stack – the only hybrid cloud platform that is consistent with a leading public cloud. Born from Azure, Azure Stack helps organizations deliver Azure services from their own datacenter. This model cuts across infrastructure, applications and people, and requires a hybrid cloud approach that provides consistency across private, hosted, and public clouds.
Azure Stack brings innovation – including IaaS and higher level PaaS services – from hyper-scale datacenters to on-premises, enterprise-scale environments to meet customers’ business requirements. A hybrid cloud platform provides customers access to the rich Azure ecosystem, empowering developers, IT and organizations to do more, like:
- Application developers can maximize their productivity using a ‘write once, deploy to Azure or Azure Stack’ approach.
- IT professionals can transform on-premises datacenter resources into Azure IaaS/PaaS services while maintaining oversight using the same management and automation tools that Microsoft uses to operate Azure.
- Organizations can embrace hybrid cloud computing on their terms by helping them address business and technical considerations like regulation, data sovereignty, customization and latency.
Through a series of Technical Previews, Microsoft will add services and content such as OS images and Azure Resource Manager templates to help customers start taking advantage of Azure Stack. Microsoft delivers the best in class hybrid cloud platform with a deep understanding of enterprise requirements for both developers and IT professionals acquired through many years of delivering transformational datacenter technologies.
