{"id":103108,"date":"2019-11-04T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=435073"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:31:56","slug":"microsofts-new-approach-to-hybrid-azure-services-when-and-where-customers-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/04\/microsofts-new-approach-to-hybrid-azure-services-when-and-where-customers-need-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s new approach to hybrid: Azure services when and where customers need them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As <\/span>business computing needs have grown <\/span>more <\/span>complex and sophisticated<\/span>, <\/span>many enterprises <\/span>have discovered they need multiple <\/span>systems <\/span>to <\/span>meet<\/span> various<\/span> requirement<\/span>s \u2013 <\/span>a mix of technology environments in multiple <\/span>locations<\/span>,<\/span> known as hybrid IT or hybrid cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Technology vendors have responded with an array of services and platforms<\/span> \u2013 public clouds, private clouds and the <\/span>growing<\/span> \u201c<\/span>edge<\/span>\u201d<\/span> computing model \u2013 <\/span>but <\/span>there hasn\u2019t necessarily been <\/span>a cohesive strategy to get them to work together. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We got here in an ad hoc fashion<\/span>,\u201d said Erik Vogel, global vice president for customer experience <\/span>for HPE <\/span>GreenLake<\/span> at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.<\/span> \u201c<\/span>C<\/span>ustomers didn\u2019t have a strategic model to work from.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, he said, various business owners in the same company may have bought different software as a service<\/span> (SaaS)<\/span> applications, or developers may have independently started leveraging<\/span> Amazon Web Service<\/span>s<\/span>,<\/span> Azure<\/span> or Google Cloud <\/span>Platform <\/span>to develop a set of applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>t its Ignite conference this week in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft announced<\/span> it<\/span>s solution to<\/span> such<\/span> cloud sprawl. <\/span>The company<\/span> has launched a preview<\/span> of Azure Arc<\/a>, which offers <\/span>Azure <\/span>s<\/span>ervices<\/span> and management <\/span>to customers on <\/span>other<\/span> cloud<\/span>s<\/span> or infrastructure, including <\/span>those off<\/span>ered by<\/span> Amazon and Google.<\/span><\/p>\n

John<\/span> \u201c<\/span>JG<\/span>\u201d<\/span> Chirapurath, general manager for Azure data, blockchain and artificial intelligence at Microsoft, said the <\/span>new service <\/span>is both an acknowledgement<\/span> of,<\/span> and a response to<\/span>,<\/span> the reality <\/span>that <\/span>many companies <\/span>fac<\/span>e<\/span> today. <\/span>They <\/span>are<\/span> runni<\/span>ng various parts of their businesses on different cloud platforms, and they <\/span>also have a lot o<\/span>f data stored on <\/span>their own new or legacy systems. <\/span><\/p>\n

In all those cases, he said, <\/span>these customers are telling Microsoft they<\/span> could use the benefits of Azure cloud innovation<\/span> whether or not their data is stored in the cloud<\/span>, and they could benefit from having the same Azure <\/span>capabilities \u2013 including <\/span>security safeguards <\/span>\u2013 available <\/span>to them across their entire portfolio.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We are offering our customers the ability<\/span> to<\/span> take <\/span>their <\/span>services, untethered from Azure, and run them inside their own datacenter<\/span> or in another cloud<\/span>,\u201d <\/span>Chirapurath <\/span>said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft says Azure <\/span>Arc builds on years of work the company has done to serve hybrid cloud needs. For example, <\/span>Azure Resource Manager<\/span>, released <\/span>in 201<\/span>4<\/span>, <\/span>was created with<\/span> the vision that it would manage resources outside of Azure,<\/span> including in <\/span>companies\u2019 <\/span>internal servers and on other clouds<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

That flexibility<\/span> can<\/span> help customers operate<\/span> their services<\/span> on<\/span> a mix of clouds<\/span> more efficiently, without purchasing new hardware or switching <\/span>among <\/span>cloud providers. Companies can use a<\/span> public cloud<\/span> to obtain<\/span> computing power and data storage <\/span>from <\/span>an outside vendor<\/span>, <\/span>but<\/span> they<\/span> can <\/span>also house <\/span>critical applications and sensitive data <\/span>on the<\/span>ir<\/span> own premises<\/span> in a private cloud<\/span> or server<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s e<\/span>dge computing, which stores data<\/span> where the user is,<\/span> in between the company and the public cloud<\/span> \u2013 <\/span>for example, on <\/span>their customers\u2019 <\/span>mobile devices<\/span> or on sensors in smart buildings like hospitals and factories<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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