Accomplish More with Less with Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud

Azure Virtual Desktop
for Azure Local

Bring AVD to on-premises and reduce overall costs and meet security and data locality requirements. Create a full Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows Server desktop virtualization environment accessible from any device.

Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc

Deploy AKS on-premises to automate running containerized applications at scale while allowing users to operate consistent cloud applications anywhere. This makes it quicker to get started hosing Linux and Windows containers.

Azure Arc-enabled Data Services

Lift and shift applications to Azure Arc data services with minimal application and database changes. Also includes built-in management capabilities that drastically reduces management overhead.

Software

Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI) is a world-class, integrated virtualization stack built on proven technologies that have already been deployed at scale, including Hyper-V, Storage Spaces Direct, and Azure-inspired SDN. It’s part of the Azure Stack family, using the same software-defined compute, storage, and networking software as Azure Stack Hub.

Hardware

DataON Integrated Systems provide a premium, complete, and turnkey experience. Powered by 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, they include software, hardware, monitoring & management, cluster aware updating, Azure services, and service & support from DataON and Microsoft.

Workloads

Azure Local is hybrid by design with support for Azure hybrid workloads such as Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) hybrid, Azure Arc-enabled Data Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the edge.

Reliability & Ease of Use

VMware is complex and painful to manage. Users report spending upwards of 16 hours a week on average managing and patching VMware solutions. That’s in addition to an average of 28 hours of downtime annually. Azure Local is familiar for Hyper-V and server admins, allowing them to leverage existing virtualization and storage concepts and skills. It works with existing data center processes and tools such as Microsoft System Center, Active Directory, Group Policy and PowerShell scripting. Most companies already use Windows Server so less training is needed.

Azure Site Recovery, Backup, File Sync, on Azure Local

VMware is expensive, with extremely complicated pricing. Customers are reporting that VMware is currently raising pricing up to 600%. In addition, VMware HCI functionality is covered by many different products and extremely complicated pricing: nine pricing tiers for vSAN, three for NSX, three for vCenter Server, and five for vSphere. Additionally, many VMware customers say they are overpaying for many features they don’t actually need. Azure Local’s pricing is simply $10/physical core/month. And if you already have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement with Software Assurance, Azure Local is included at no extra cost!

Built-in Security
and Compliance

VMware doesn’t have native cloud integration. 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Azure, which natively integrates with Azure Local. VMware relies on Azure, Google, and AWS for cloud services which adds complexity and may require additional technical training. Microsoft owns the whole software stack from the kernel to the hypervisor to the operating system. VMware doesn’t have native cloud integration.

Azure Local allows you to take advantage of cloud and on-premises resources working together and natively monitor, secure, and back up to the cloud.