Azure Stack: Microsoft’s private-cloud platform
Microsoft’s release of Azure Stack, an on-premises version of its public cloud, could be important for networking and data centres for one obvious reason, it gives customers a way to use a favourite and well known cloud platform without moving their sensitive data into a multi-tenant environment.
Azure Stack is software from Microsoft that’s been certified to run on a select group of partners’ hardware and is intended to look and feel just like the Azure public cloud.
Microsoft is the first of the three major IaaS vendors – Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform to offer a hybrid cloud that consists of an on-premises hardware and software bundles that runs the same software management tooling as the public cloud.
After first announcing plans for Azure Stack in 2015, Microsoft this week announced that the offering is finally available for customers to order, with shipping expected by this Spring.
