You can directly onboard Windows Server machines to Azure Arc using a built-in utility. The wizard automates onboarding, checks prerequisites, and fetches and ...

As Mary Jo Foley reported this week, hybrid cloud drew a cluster of announcements at Microsoft Ignite. Among them were announcements for general availability of Azure Arc enabled server that enables ...

Organizations today are increasingly operating in multicloud and hybrid environments, using a mix of public, private and edge clouds to manage their technology assets. That has created opportunities ...

Microsoft may have promised multiple future releases of on-premises Windows Server, but that doesn’t mean you continue to manage and use those servers the way you always have. Key to Windows Server’s ...

One of the more interesting announcements at Microsoft’s 2019 Ignite conference was Azure Arc, a new management tool for hybrid cloud application infrastructures. Building on Azure concepts, Arc is ...

‘When you think about what we’re doing versus what our competition or what other vendors are doing, we provide the most flexible solution -- bar none,’ said Arpan Shah, the general manager leading ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released more information about Azure Arc, the hybrid cloud and infrastructure toolkit it announced during the opening keynote of its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Fla. In a ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

ESUs are automatically provided to Azure Arc-enabled servers and non-Azure servers connected to Azure Arc. ESUs can be enrolled at scale using Azure Policy or the Azure portal with no upfront charge.

Paul Schnackenburg looks at the current capabilities of the public preview of Azure Arc -- extending Azure Resource Manager capabilities to Linux and Windows servers, as well as Kubernetes clusters on ...

Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses ...

With the preview of Azure Arc, Microsoft today announced a major step in the evolution of its hybrid cloud story. Azure Arc takes the work the company has done on projects like Azure Stack, throws in ...