Run your datacenter like a service provider with Microsoft Azure Stack

Back in January week we released the Technical Preview for Azure Stack, the latest phase of Microsoft’s hybrid cloud strategy that for the first time gives you Microsoft Azure services that allow you to run your datacenter like a service provider. As outlined in the webcast with Mark Russinovich and Jeffrey Snover, Azure and Azure Stack share a standardized architecture, including the same portal, a unified application model, plus common DevOps tools, which gives you the freedom to decide where applications and workloads reside without being constrained by technology. The main idea with Azure Stack is that everyone wins: Developers no longer need to go around IT to quickly get the required resources for their apps with Azure, businesses get the services they want faster, and IT spends less time cleaning things up after the fact.

If you’d like to get a taste for the specific advantages that Azure Stack can provide for your IT organization, there’s a new video from the Microsoft Mechanics show where our very own Jeffrey Snover (Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud) demonstrates how a developer can define a SharePoint app with an Azure Resource Manager Template, then consume the offer comprising the specified resources and services allocated within a plan defined by IT. You can get all the details as well as view the video here:

 

An early look at Azure Stack and what it means for IT

 

J.C. Hornbeck , Sr. Solution Asset PM
Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group