As organizations modernize their IT infrastructures, they seek a hybrid cloud environment that combines the benefits of public and private cloud and on-premises infrastructures. This approach provides the flexibility and versatility needed to leverage cloud scalability and a wide variety of cloud-enabled services while meeting data locality and security requirements.
DataON is helping organizations meet these challenges with DataON Integrated Solutions for Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud workloads.
What are DataON Integrated Solutions for Azure Hybrid Workloads?
DataON now extends its Azure Arc-enabled Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI to add Azure hybrid cloud workloads, creating a complete and integrated hardware, software, and workload solution. It provides an appliance-like experience with turnkey design, deployment, and integration elevated with white glove service and support.
- Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for Azure Stack HCI (preview)
DataON Integrated Solutions for Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI (in preview) bring Azure Virtual Desktop to on-premises Azure Stack HCI deployments. This enables organizations to reduce overall costs and meet security and data locality requirements. Administrators can create a full Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows Server desktop-virtualization environment accessible from any device. This solution offers a streamlined, efficient, and low-latency approach to enabling remote work.Through a strategic partnership with Nerdio, DataON offers customers a seamless integration with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise. It is a powerful management platform that adds hundreds of features on top of Azure Virtual Desktop that simplify management, ensure efficient operations, and lower Azure compute and storage costs by up to 75% via automation. The platform also fully supports Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI in addition to native Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Intune and Windows 365 Cloud PCs. - Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Hybrid
Many data centers are embracing containerized applications for improved resource efficiency, security, scalability, and rapid deployment. DataON Integrated Solutions for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) hybrid offer an on-premises implementation of the popular Azure Kubernetes Service orchestrator. It automates running containerized applications at scale, while enabling users to operate consistent cloud-native applications anywhere. This solution makes it quicker to get started hosting Linux and Windows containers in your data center. - Azure Arc-enabled Data Services (SQL Managed Instance and PostgreSQL)
DataON Integrated Solutions for Arc-Managed SQL feature Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance, an Azure SQL data service that can be created on the infrastructure of your choice. It enables existing SQL Server customers to lift and shift their applications to Azure Arc data services with minimal application and database changes while maintaining data sovereignty. At the same time, SQL Managed Instance includes built-in management capabilities that drastically reduce management overhead. - AI at the Edge
DataON is partnering with Strategic Online Systems, Inc. (SOS), a risk mitigation company, and managed service provider, to deliver DataON Integrated Solutions for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Edge. Utilizing the SOS StrategicVision Solution software suite, DataON Integrated Solutions for AI at the Edge are deployed privately on-premises and can utilize existing assets like video feeds, badge scanners, environmental sensors, proximity sensors, operator input, and disparate systems to better security, provide real-time tracking, detect anomalies, monitor performance, improve operations efficiency, and more. By being on-premises, all your data stays with you, response time is fast, and your local servers are secure by design.
What are Azure Arc-enabled Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI?
DataON has the largest selection of Azure Arc-enabled Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI, tailored to fit your organization’s needs. Powered by the new 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, DataON Azure Arc-enabled Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI are designed to deliver a complete customer experience, from procurement to deployment. These systems include pre-installed software, hardware, monitoring & management, cluster-aware updating, and Azure Arc-enabled services. All components are continuously tested by Microsoft and DataON for the highest reliability, with world-class 24×7 joint support from DataON and Microsoft. DataON Integrated Systems also feature Solidigm D7 Series SSDs, its highest performance family of TLC 3D NAND SSDs engineered for the most demanding workloads.
Select models also include NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) for an optimal experience with graphic-rich virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML) applications.
If you’re not already familiar with Azure Stack HCI, in concise terms, it’s a hybrid cloud solution that combines the power of the Azure control plane with hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), enabling organizations to advance their digital modernization goals with cost-effective technology. HCI infrastructure offers various benefits over traditional deployments, including robust scalability, reliability, improved performance, simplified deployment and management, software-defined infrastructure, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
Why Azure Arc-enabled?
Azure Arc is a set of technologies that help customers manage and govern increasingly complex environments that span across public & private clouds. Azure Arc brings consistent experience of using Azure services across the cloud of your choice.
It also streamlines and enhances various aspects of IT infrastructure management. It simplifies tasks like provisioning, policy enforcement, and app deployment, including SQL server instances and Kubernetes, across distributed environments on-premises, at the edge, or in multi-cloud setups.
Arc also extends Azure and Azure Stack HCI-based security to hybrid and multi-cloud environments and integrates 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor built-in security and extensions and Microsoft Secured Core, providing complete protection from silicon to cloud.
The DataON Difference
DataON offers a wide variety of innovative solutions with Azure Arc-enabled Integrated Systems for Azure Stack HCI to fit any size hybrid cloud deployment. Customers who’ve chosen DataON to be their solution provider consistently praise our extensive expertise in Microsoft technologies, solution quality and reliability, and the complete customer experience. DataON prides itself in helping customers find a tailor-made solution, all the while providing unparalleled kid glove service from procurement and delivery to deployment and product life-cycle support. Unlike OEMs, customers don’t have to wade through levels of tiered support. DataON specializes solely in Azure Stack HCI solutions with cloud-based Azure and Azure Arc-enabled services. That’s what we do. When customers call our support team, they get the personalized attention and level of expertise they deserve.