In effect to customers’ requests for unreality capabilities and agility successful borderline environments, Microsoft has delivered innovations crossed assorted cloud-to-edge products similar Azure Arc, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure Stack HCI. This year, Gartner introduced a Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI). Gartner defines DHI arsenic “offerings that present cloud-native infrastructure attributes, which tin beryllium deployed and operated wherever the lawsuit prefers. Offerings are bundle and oregon integrated hardware with a unified power plane. Distributed hybrid infrastructure provides the instauration for the deployment of applications successful a distributed mode that retains a cloud-defined oregon cloud-inspired approach”. We are thrilled to stock that Gartner has positioned Microsoft arsenic a Leader successful this caller category.

Figure 1: Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

Organizations, careless of size, proceed to thrust their integer translation travel to reap the benefits coming from the transportation of cloud-connected experiences crossed divers deployment scenarios. One of the challenges we perceive organizations facing successful their integer translation journeys contiguous is however to present cloud-connected experiences reliably crossed a globally distributed footprint that extends to wherever they live, work, and marque decisions. Adopted solutions request to beryllium simple, secure, and observable—in retail stores with nary method unit oregon factories dispersed crossed aggregate continents—so you tin marque local, real-time decisions and gully insights from aggregated data.

Microsoft Azure brings unreality capabilities and agility wherever you request them done a portfolio of services, tools, and infrastructure with Azure Arc. To deploy applications successful a information halfway oregon astatine the edge, you tin instrumentality vantage of Azure services similar Azure Machine Learning, Azure Kubernetes Services, and App services—all with a acceptable of broad hybrid and multicloud solutions wrong a azygous power plane. For customers looking for an end-to-end Azure acquisition astatine the edge, Azure Stack HCI provides a broad curated infrastructure stack that is Azure Arc-enabled and hybrid by design. As a Leader successful this caller category, Microsoft is committed to helping each organizations centralize power crossed divers deployment scenarios and sites and accelerate their integer transformation.

Simplify operations and innovate anywhere

Many of our customers including Carnival, COOP, and SKF streamline their planetary operations by utilizing a curated prime of Azure technologies, specified arsenic Azure Kubernetes Service, SQL managed instance, PostgreSQL, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Stack HCI, each enabled by Azure Arc. These technologies facilitate the hold of unreality computing beyond the 4 walls of the information halfway retired to the edge, bringing cloud-native capabilities to retail stores, ships, mill floors, organisation centers, and more. This gives you a accordant operations and absorption level that tin afloat tally services not lone from a cardinal determination but besides on-premises successful distant locations. This acceptable of technologies provides customers with a holistic, seamless, and much unafraid attack to innovate anywhere. 

The benefits of utilizing these innovative Azure technologies are multi-faceted, showing:

• Reduction successful carbon footprint
• Strengthened security posture crossed each environments
• Simplification of wide management
• Performance improvement

Real beingness benefits tin beryllium seen done these customers’ quotes.

“With the aforesaid effort to negociate the compute level astatine 1 site, we tin present negociate the compute level astatine 100 sites. It would not beryllium imaginable without the Azure Arc technologies and the GitOps workflow.”—Mats Iremark: Lead Solution Architect for Hybrid Cloud, SKF Group

“Digital agility affects information now, and we truly judge that Azure Stack HCI tin enactment that with IoT and IoT Edge, which we’re utilizing connected ships to transmit information successful existent clip from shipside unreality to the Azure unreality platform.” —Franco Caraffi: IT Operation Director – Global Maritime and Environmental Compliance, Carnival Corporation

“Our Azure Stack HCI deployment has delivered a savings of astir £400,000 a twelvemonth connected powerfulness and cooling unsocial compared with the C7000 blades we were running.”—Scott Robertson: Principal Enterprise Architect for Foundation Technology, Co-op Group

“So far, we’ve gained astir a 30 percent show betterment with Azure Stack HCI compared with our erstwhile Hyper-V based workloads.”—Scott Robertson: Principal Enterprise Architect for Foundation Technology, Co-op Group

See how you tin reap the benefits of hybrid and multicloud strategy and work much astir Microsoft strengths in this space. Also, tune into Microsoft Ignite to find retired much astir the investments we are making successful Azure Arc, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure Stack HCI to marque it adjacent easier for you to negociate your Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.

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

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