Software King of the World Microsoft has expanded its Azure Stack family with new HCI offerings, designed for customers looking to run virtualised applications on modern hyperconverged infrastructure.
The new product will be offered through 15 of its hardware channel partners and is geared towards lowering costs and improving performance.
Vole’s new Azure Stack HCI solutions deliver the same software-defined compute, storage and networking software as Azure Stack.
Organisations can run application workloads across both their servers and the cloud, with Azure integration allowing for hybrid capabilities such as cloud-based backup, site recovery and monitoring, Microsoft said.
Arpan Shah, general manager at Microsoft Azure, said while customers love the fact that they can run cloud applications on-premises with Azure Stack, Microsoft thinks they also run important parts of their organisation on traditional virtualised applications.
“Now we have a new option to deliver cloud efficiency and innovation for these workloads too”, he said.
Launched in 2017, Azure Stack remains the only solution on the market for customers wanting to run cloud applications using consistent IaaS and PaaS services via the public cloud, on-premises, as well as disconnected environments.
Now, businesses that opt for Azure Stack HCI solutions will also benefit from its high performance, Microsoft said, with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces Direct running on the most current industry- standard x86 hardware.
There’s support for the latest hardware technologies such as NVMe drives, persistent memory, and remote-direct memory access (RDMA) networking, while IT admins can leverage Windows Admin Center for simplified integration with Azure hybrid services.
