MONITORING & MANAGEMENT

Azure Arc: Extending Azure for hybrid and multi-cloud management (Microsoft Ignite 2025)

Microsoft Ignite Session ID: BRK183 November 20, 2025 Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President, Azure, Microsoft Steven Bucher, Product Manager, Azure Arc, Microsoft Azure brings unified management to on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Learn how Azure Arc delivers consistent governance, security, and operations across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments—while enabling System Center customers to adopt a cloud-native Azure Arc: Extending Azure for hybrid and multi-cloud management (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

Azure Arc, Arc Servers, and Azure Local

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 Local FAQs

What is Azure Local? What is Azure Local? Azure Local is a cloud-connected infrastructure enabled by Azure Arc to run VMs, containers and selected Azure services in distributed environment. Azure Local runs on customer owned hardware and managed by the customer using cloud connected tools. For more details, please refer to the Azure Stack Tech Azure Local FAQs

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