Microsoft is trying to make good on its commitment to managing not only assets in Azure cloud but on customer premises and in other providers' clouds. Azure Arc for servers, a centralized management ...

Azure Arc does not replace Azure Stack, which is a much more mature platform that provides a wider range of Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions. At this juncture, Azure Arc only offers two ...

But for many organizations, public cloud deployment is not practical. Constraints could include data residency laws, lack of public cloud presence in certain geographies, and/or highly stringent near ...

Arguably one of Microsoft's biggest announcements this year was the introduction of Azure Arc at Ignite. But is this really a game-changer or is Microsoft just falling for the multicloud buzz? One of ...

Microsoft continues to bring Azure-based managed services to Azure Arc, the hybrid and multi-cloud platform. At BUILD 2021, held last week, the company announced the availability of Platform as a ...

When I first heard Microsoft talk about Azure Arc, the vision for hybrid IT sounded interesting, but technical details were thin on the ground. Fast forward to now and there are so many different ...

As a growing number of companies embrace cloud technology and turn to smart IoT devices, their computing needs have grown far more complicated. In the past, businesses ran workloads and apps ...

Ignite 2020 saw the public preview of Azure Arc enabled data services, the latest step in Microsoft's bid to demystify multicloud. Principal program manager Travis Wright explains how it works.

The yearly Ignite conference is much like Christmas morning for Microsoft cloud enthusiasts. Microsoft parades out a bunch of shiny new services just begging to be played with. The 2019 installment ...

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.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Azure Arc, its service for managing cloud resources anywhere, including competing clouds like AWS and GCP and platforms like Red Hat’s ...

Azure Arc, the hybrid and multi-cloud platform was originally announced at the Ignite conference last year. I spent the weekend exploring the architecture of Azure Arc along with the key scenarios it ...