Optimizing Hybrid Infrastructure with Microsoft

Gartner unveiled their Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI) Magic Quadrant this year

Microsoft are happy to announce that Microsoft has been ranked as a Leader in this new area by Gartner

Azure Arc, Microsoft Azure offers a portfolio of services, tools, and infrastructure that enables you to access cloud capabilities and agility wherever you need them

Azure Arc-enabled and hybrid by design, Azure Stack HCI offers a comprehensive curated infrastructure stack for customers seeking an end-to-end Azure experience at the edge

A carefully chosen selection of Azure technologies, including as Azure Kubernetes Service, SQL managed instance, PostgreSQL, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Stack HCI, all enabled by Azure Arc, helps many of our customers

Microsoft firmly believe that Azure Stack HCI, with IoT and IoT Edge, which Microsoft using on ships to transmit data in real time from shipside cloud to the Azure cloud platform, can support that with digital agility, which now affects safety

Compared to the C7000 blades Microsoft were using, their Azure Stack HCI deployment has generated savings of around £400,000 a year on power and cooling alone

Compared to Microsoft  old Hyper-V based workloads, they have gained about a 30 percent performance improvement with Azure Stack HCI so far

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Tony Harvey, Julia Palmer, David Wright, and Jeffrey Hewitt, September 27, 2023