Microsoft Azure is the powerful public cloud from Microsoft with data centers in Switzerland, Europe and worldwide. However, many companies are reluctant to move certain workloads completely to the cloud - usually due to strict data protection requirements, compliance requirements or the need for low latency times.
Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) makes it possible to operate cloud-based services and virtualization workloads directly on-premises, i.e. locally in your own data center or at edge locations. Azure Local acts as a secure hybrid cloud infrastructure within your existing IT environment. If required, applications, containers or resources can be seamlessly connected to the Azure Public Cloud and managed centrally via Azure Arc.
Azure Local is operated on validated, specially adapted hardware (Validated Nodes) from leading partners such as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. This ensures maximum performance, security and stability for your local systems. The infrastructure is controlled as a service (hyperconverged infrastructure, HCI) directly via the Azure portal or the Windows Admin Center.
You retain full data sovereignty at all times and can flexibly deploy and manage virtual machines and modern container workloads. Microsoft does not have access to your local data, but provides continuous security and function updates from the cloud.
Azure Local is therefore the ideal solution for companies pursuing a hybrid cloud strategy that also need to meet the highest standards for data protection, compliance, and performance. With Azure Local, you benefit from a scalable, secure, and flexible infrastructure that combines on-premises IT resources with the advantages of the Microsoft Azure cloud—perfect for edge computing, AI applications, and containerized workloads.
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