The significant evolution of cloud computing in the last few years has encouraged IT leaders to rethink their enterprise cloud strategy. They want to remodel their IT environment and steer their organizations along a path to digital transformation.
Public cloud was long promoted as a catalyst for IT transformation and an offering with the right capabilities—ease, agility, speed of access, scalability, and economics. But, business and technical considerations, including regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, security, cost, and latency issues, have caused many organizations to say no to public cloud.
The solution? A model that encompasses a blend (or mix) of both traditional workload deployments and hybrid cloud resources—private cloud, managed cloud, and public cloud—that meets the needs of the workload. You need to choose the right deployment model at the right time, based on the lifecycle of the workload. And as you move through the lifecycle of the workload, you need the flexibility to move each workload across your hybrid IT environment based on its specific requirements, such as agility, security, cost, control, and compliance.
To address concerns surrounding security, data privacy, and data sovereignty, Microsoft Azure Stack is a new hybrid cloud platform that enables you to deliver Azure-consistent services within your own data center. It provides the power and flexibility of public cloud services, but under your control to ensure the performance and security your business needs.