Azure Migrate is a central hub for tools to discover, assess, and migrate on-premises servers, apps, and data to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure Local is a hyperconverged infrastructure system solution that hosts virtualized Windows and Linux workloads in a hybrid environment. You can use the Azure Migrate platform to move on-premises VMware VMs to … Overview of Azure Migrate based VMware migration for Azure Local
Thursday, October 16, 2025 2pm EST / 11am PST It’s been almost a year since Microsoft announced the change from Azure Stack HCI to Azure Local. Microsoft’s Alan Kerr takes a look back at what has changed in the last year, and what to expect for Azure Local at Microsoft Ignite TL/DR Summary 1. Azure … DataON Webinar: Azure Local One Year Later and What To Expect at Microsoft Ignite
Karena Li, Partner Account Manager, DataON 10/7/25 After three and half years at DataON as a partner account manager, I’ve learned that technical expertise alone doesn’t win customers—it’s how you deliver when things go wrong. And lately, I’ve been hearing the same thing from customers over and over: working with DataON is a breath of … The DataON Difference: Why It Matters
With Azure Local, Microsoft continues to be a leader in Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI), offering a complete, single-stack hybrid cloud solution that brings Azure’s cloud capability into your own data center or edge locations. Azure Local integrates with Azure Arc and the Azure portal so managing Azure Local feels just like managing resources in the … Microsoft Named a LEADER in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the Third Straight Year
For many long-standing VMware customers, Azure Local represents a promising yet unfamiliar frontier. Navigating the Azure ecosystem for the first time can pose research and comparison challenges, especially when evaluating Azure Local as a strategic replacement. The table below bridges that gap by mapping VMware components to their Azure Local counterparts. If you have questions … Mapping the VMware Ecosystem to Azure Local
With the release of Azure Local 12.2506 Microsoft has opened the public preview of Network Security Groups (NSGs). This long awaited feature provides micro-segmentation support for Azure Local VMs using simple ACLs. NSGs can be applied to vNics or Logical Networks, and can be applied during the creation of the VM before it ever gets … Azure Local Micro-segmentation with Network Security Groups (NSGs): Overview & Demo
Considerations in migrating to a new hypervisor is top of mind today. This webinar brings Rick Vanover from Veeam, Benjamin Clements from Strategic Online Systems and Howard Lo from DataON together to talk about their experience about what to consider and lessons learned about migrating customers from one hypervisor to another. Recorded 7/30/24.
DataON’s Jacob Thomas provides a quick explanation of what Azure Arc is and its benefits and capabilities. He also talks about the differences between Arc-enabled servers and Azure Local VMs enabled by Azure Arc.
Azure Migrate (preview) is a new tool to migrate VMs from VMware to Azure Local. It provides agent-less replication & workload configuration, with no workload impact during replication & minimal cutover time, while all data stays on-premises. DataON’s Jake Thomas takes us on a step-by-step demo on how to move VMware VMs to Azure Local … Azure Migrate Step-by-Step Demo: Migrating your VMs from VMware to Azure Local