Thursday, January 15, 2025 2pm EST / 11am PST Azure Local was one of the most popular topics at Microsoft Ignite 2025. It’s Microsoft’s answer to the hybrid cloud challenge: how to deliver cloud innovation while still being on-premises. And it’s becoming clear that Azure Local is now a strategic pillar for industries like healthcare, … DataON Webinar: What’s New in Azure Local from Microsoft Ignite
Moran Assaf, Senior AI Product Manager, Microsoft November 18, 2025 In today’s connected world, customers expect instant, context-rich interactions- even in environments where cloud connectivity isn’t guaranteed. That’s where Edge Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) at the edge comes in. Edge RAG, enabled by Azure Arc, combining local data retrieval with intelligent reasoning to empowers conversational experiences that are fast, secure, and deeply personalized. Together … Transforming City Operations: How Villa Park and DataON Deliver Real-Time Decisions with Edge RAG
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
In February 2024, Broadcom finally arrived and completed its acquisition of VMware. We blogged (Broadcom Is Here: Is It Time to Finally Leave VMware Behind?) about expected price hikes and disruptions for sales & support. We thought there would be gloom and doom, but the reality now is that it’s downright apocalyptic for its customer … VMbeware: Make Sure You Have A VMware Exit Strategy
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
Mindy Diep, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is now part of Azure Local. Learn more. Today we’re sharing an overview on how to upgrade from Azure Stack HCI, version 22H2 to our latest release Azure Local, version 23H2. We introduced Azure Local, version 23H2 earlier this year with an exciting lineup of new capabilities. The … Upgrade from Azure Stack HCI, version 22H2 to Azure Local
Tuesday, December 10 2pm EST / 11am PST Azure Local was the big news at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago! Azure Local is a new product that’s a cloud-connected infrastructure enabled by Azure Arc. Azure Stack HCI is now part of Azure local. All Azure Stack HCI customers will now run their workloads on Azure Local; … DataON Webinar: Azure Local and Other News from Microsoft Ignite