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Real World IT: Azure Local and Windows Server 2025 News and More from Microsoft ignite

Ernie is joined by fellow MVP Ben Thomas to talk about the news of Azure Local subsuming Azure Stack HCI, Windows Server 2025 now GA with a ton of awesome features, and new management capabilities by Arc-enabling your infrastructure. Time Stamps: 0:00 – Intro 1:30 – Ben’s experience with SCVMM, WSSD, S2D, Azure Stack Hub, Real World IT: Azure Local and Windows Server 2025 News and More from Microsoft ignite

Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local

Today 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 Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local

Replace VMware Horizon and Citrix DaaS with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI)

With corporate uncertainty, declining customer support, and enormous price increases for VMware Horizon and Citrix DaaS, many organizations are looking for an alternative on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution and evaluating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI). Customers looking to leave VMware Horizon will also need to seek another hybrid Replace VMware Horizon and Citrix DaaS with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI)

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.

The Need for Low Latency, High Performance Ethernet Networks

Ethernet, the Modern Data Center, and Applications Evolve Nearly fifty years ago in 1973, Bob Metcalfe, working in Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was tasked in creating a high-speed local area network (LAN) technology for computer workstations to the world’s first laser printers. Since then, the networking technology known as Ethernet has become the The Need for Low Latency, High Performance Ethernet Networks