Microsoft recognized again arsenic a Leader successful the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure for the 2nd consecutive year.

Organizations of each sizes are accelerating their integer translation to leverage cloud-connected experiences and capabilities crossed divers usage cases. Whether processing information astatine the source, moving mission-critical applications, oregon ensuring regulatory compliance, extending these capabilities crossed unreality and borderline is essential. However, a important situation they look is successful maintaining centralized power portion reliably deploying these capabilities crossed a globally distributed footprint.

Microsoft Azure’s adaptive unreality attack addresses this situation by unifying siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into a azygous operations, security, application, and information model. This exemplary enables organizations to leverage cloud-native and AI technologies to enactment simultaneously crossed hybrid, multi-cloud, and cloud-to-local environments. Enabled by Azure Arc, our adaptive unreality attack delivers simple, secure, and observable solutions for assorted environments and is supported by a trusted infrastructure services portfolio spanning implicit 60 nationalist unreality regions, Azure Stack portfolio, and different third-party infrastructure. 

We are honored to beryllium recognized again arsenic a Leader successful the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI) for the 2nd consecutive year. In this precocious published report, Gartner placed Microsoft Furthest successful Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. 

Figure 1: Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure 

Customers instrumentality vantage of employing an adaptive unreality approach

Azure, with its adaptive unreality attack and infrastructure portfolio spanning unreality and edge, streamlines operations, management, and information for a wide scope of lawsuit usage cases driven by integer translation efforts successful each industries. For instance, Coles and Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) exemplify the usage of AI and instrumentality learning workloads successful retail environments and smelting factories, highlighting the request successful some retail and manufacturing industries. Coles uses AI-optimized infrastructure provided by GPU-enabled Azure Stack HCI and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)-enabled by Azure Arc to connection a superior in-store acquisition for their customers, which requires section AI inferencing for video. EGA’s request for highly debased latency led them to instrumentality section AI modeling, enhancing the real-time positioning of their astute crane, which is important for aluminum casting and boosting manufacturing efficiency. 

“With its seamless hybrid unreality architecture, our caller integer manufacturing level outperforms our erstwhile attack by orders of magnitude successful presumption of outgo efficiency, AI effect time, and concern agility, allowing america to propulsion the frontiers of our integer ambition.”—Director of Digital Platforms and Infrastructure astatine EGA. 

Energy shaper Uniper runs galore powerfulness plants successful a highly regulated manufacture wherever delicate data, specified arsenic cognition procedures oregon attraction of powerfulness plants, cannot beryllium hosted successful the nationalist cloud. Access and permissions are besides strictly confidential. By adopting Azure Stack HCI enabled by Azure Arc, they tin adhere to each their information restrictions and easy negociate each the idiosyncratic deployments successful their program centrally and efficiently done the Azure portal, erstwhile integrated with Azure Monitor. Uniper present manages its IT resources uniformly successful an integrated wide system, careless of whether the resources are hosted centrally successful the nationalist unreality oregon locally on-premises. 

Many businesses besides request to link their nationalist unreality operations with section workloads. In the retail industry, DICK’S Sporting Goods deployed Azure Kubernetes Service connected Azure Stack HCI to tally each their in-store apps with section information processing and centralized DevOps. The institution envisioned and developed a “one store” strategy. This allows them to write, deploy, manage, and show bundle crossed each locations and online. DICK’S Sporting Goods was capable to greatly simplify their IT process by utilizing this “build erstwhile and deploy anyplace to each stores” strategy. 

As demonstrated by these lawsuit examples, the advantages of employing an adaptive unreality attack are varied and numerous, highlighting: 

• Strengthened information posture crossed each environments.

• Simplification of wide management. 

• Performance improvement. 

• A simplification successful carbon footprint (see besides power simplification with Azure Stack HCI). 

By partnering with Microsoft, organizations tin execute reliable, secure, and businesslike integer transformation. The distributed, hybrid infrastructure portfolio makes it casual for you to virtualize your workloads and tally unreality autochthonal apps on-premises. Every solution comes enabled with Azure Arc to seamlessly widen the ecosystem of Azure applications and services to your distributed locations. 

Explore further Microsoft resources

Read much successful the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure study Gartner Reprint. 

Additionally, cheque retired Microsoft-validated distributed infrastructure solutions and articulation america astatine Microsoft Ignite to larn much astir each the caller investments we are making successful this space.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Julia Palmer, Jeffrey Hewitt, Tony Harvey, Dennis Smith, Stephanie Bauman, Kevin Ji, 7 October 2024.

GARTNER is simply a registered trademark and work people of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates successful the U.S. and internationally, Magic Quadrant is simply a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is utilized herein with permission. All rights reserved. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. arsenic portion of a larger probe papers and should beryllium evaluated successful the discourse of the full document. The Gartner papers is disposable upon petition from Microsoft. 

Gartner does not endorse immoderate vendor, merchandise oregon work depicted successful its probe publications and does not counsel exertion users to prime lone those vendors with the highest ratings oregon different designation. Gartner probe publications dwell of the opinions of Gartner’s Research & Advisory enactment and should not beryllium construed arsenic statements of fact. Gartner disclaims each warranties, expressed oregon implied, with respect to this research, including immoderate warranties of merchantability oregon fittingness for a peculiar purpose.