Azure Kubernetes Service Hybrid

Scaling Kubernetes securely and reliably with AKS (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Microsoft Ignite Session ID: BRK120 November 20, 2025 Brenan Burns, Microsoft Jorge Palma, Principal PM Lead, Microsoft Durga Rachapudi, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft As Kubernetes and AI adoption grow, managing your clusters at scale becomes a strategic imperative. We’ll share practical lessons from operating large clusters with AKS, including how to keep things reliable, efficient Scaling Kubernetes securely and reliably with AKS (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Mapping the VMware Ecosystem to Azure Local

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

Microsoft Ignite: Operate infrastructure across distributed locations with Azure Local (BRK214)

Do you run mission critical applications across distributed locations? Join us to learn the best practices to deploy Azure’s distributed hybrid infrastructure solutions – from the public cloud to customer operated locations. Discover how legacy workloads and cloud-native and AI applications run on hybrid infrastructure while leveraging the advantages of Azure’s ecosystem of services like Microsoft Ignite: Operate infrastructure across distributed locations with Azure Local (BRK214)

Introducing Azure Local: Cloud Infrastructure for Distributed Locations Enabled by Azure Arc

Cosmos Darwin, Group PM Manager, Microsoft November 20, 2024 Azure’s adaptive cloud approach, powered by Azure Arc, is helping over 39,000 customers unify their hybrid, multicloud, and edge infrastructure in Azure. You can use Azure Arc to apply cloud services and tools wherever you need them, from Azure’s 60+ regions to your own distributed locations. Introducing Azure Local: Cloud Infrastructure for Distributed Locations Enabled by Azure Arc

Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local

Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Local. It’s Microsoft’s new Azure distributed infrastructure that’s enabled by Azure Arc. Azure Stack HCI is now a part of Azure Local. The same features and functionality will continue to be offered for the existing servers in the Azure Stack HCI catalog under a new form factor grouping name Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local

Press Release: New 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors in DataON Integrated Systems for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Increase Performance, Security, and Scalability for Azure Hybrid Workloads.

ANAHEIM, California – July 30, 2024 – DataON, an industry-leading provider of Microsoft hybrid cloud solutions with cloud-based Azure services, and Intel Platinum Partner, is proud to announce it is deploying 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors in its Integrated Systems and validated nodes for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors offer Press Release: New 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors in DataON Integrated Systems for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Increase Performance, Security, and Scalability for Azure Hybrid Workloads.