How to run Azure services on your own servers
At first look, the big hyperscale public clouds are much the same; they offer similar services and charge similar prices. But each has its own specialty as a result of its parent company’s history. For Microsoft, it’s a strong focus on hybrid cloud, understanding that there will always be reasons why workloads don’t leave on-premises data centers, due to either data sensitivity or government regulations.It’s a commitment that goes both ways, providing tools for quick migration of data and services, using cloud resources for non-sensitive, unregulated data when what’s on-premises is insufficient, and bringing its Azure management tools to your data center, with either Microsoft’s own hardware in Azure Stack, approved third-party hardware with Azure Stack HCI, or its Azure Arc application management tool.To read this article in full, please click here
At first look, the big hyperscale public clouds are much the same; they offer similar services and charge similar prices. But each has its own specialty as a result of its parent company’s history. For Microsoft, it’s a strong focus on hybrid cloud, understanding that there will always be reasons why workloads don’t leave on-premises data centers, due to either data sensitivity or government regulations.
It’s a commitment that goes both ways, providing tools for quick migration of data and services, using cloud resources for non-sensitive, unregulated data when what’s on-premises is insufficient, and bringing its Azure management tools to your data center, with either Microsoft’s own hardware in Azure Stack, approved third-party hardware with Azure Stack HCI, or its Azure Arc application management tool.
