Typically it is a hype among people that if a product comes from Microsoft, it needs to be criticized and thinking Microsoft would only be promoting their products with Azure. That’s not right and I would say we are being judgmental without even looking at the capabilities on Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Azure the prime competitor to Amazon AWS offerings, has improved a lot and focus is more on providing cloud computing capabilities available for everyone.
What is Microsoft Azure Stack?
Simply it paves a way to engaging your data-center with On-premise – Private/Hybrid cloud computing capabilities.
Azure Stack is a combined solution consisting of Windows Server 2016, Azure Pack and Azure Service Fabric.
- Azure Pack is an arrangement of Azure features that Microsoft makes accessible to its facilitating hosting service providers and bigger business clients as a download that can keep running on top of Windows Server and Systems Center.
- Service Fabric is the new infrastructure management technology Microsoft is integrating in to Azure and Windows Server that will empower applications to be developer, deployed and oversaw in micro-service structure.
- Windows Server 2016 is an upcoming server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, developed concurrently with Windows 10 expected to be released in Q3, 2016 and is currently under Technical Preview.
Here’s a simplified view of the Azure Stack Architecture(Sourced from Microsoft Azure Stack Documentation):
What it takes to have Azure Stack – on your data-center?
Read through this link for hardware requirements:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/22/azure_stack_hardware_specs/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/18/azure_stack_versus_azure_pack_whats_the_difference/
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