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Hybrid Cloud: Cloud Rolls Out To Data Centers in Different Hues

The term "hybrid cloud" in popular vocabulary represents a topology in which an organization's IT infrastructure is spread over public cloud(s) and on-premise data centers. An on-premise datacenter can include the enterprise's own data center or any colocation facility used by the enterprise. Hybrid has also lately been extended to include edge locations whether in a device or in a telecom provider's location. These variants are sometimes also referred to as "private cloud."

Although in a utopian world, the complete data center can be placed in the cloud, in reality, there are invariably some use cases that require workloads to be running on-premise. This is especially true of large enterprises that have considerable IT assets many of which need to continue to reside in the private cloud for various reasons. 

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Thoughts About Azure Arc

What does Azure Arc mean for cloud computing with Microsoft Azure?

Azure made its announcement at the beginning of the month around Azure Arc, promising great advances on the Hybrid cloud. So what are we supposed to think about it?

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Azure Arc: One Cloud to Rule Them All

One of the major announcements around the release of Azure Arc is the ability to control assets on other cloud providers. Whether you want to control a VM or a Kubernetes cluster, or an Azure or PostgreSQL Hyperscale SQL database, and whether it is on Amazon, GCP, or VMware vSphere, it will no longer be a issue for Azure. Of course, that's not all, but it's a hell of a place to start. Google was very proud to present Google Anthos, which allows it to manage a Kubernetes cluster regardless of the cloud provider. But here it is very clear Microsoft that has taken the lead. Of course, Azure Arc is still in Preview status, and Azure Arc doesn't handle everything — far from it. I would be quite pessimistic about Azure's support for the serverless components of all providers, but clearly if it's a question of choosing a cloud provider for a company wanting to go into the hybrid cloud, that's very clearly a good reason to choose Azure.