{"id":50251,"date":"2020-07-21T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2664707"},"modified":"2020-07-21T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:25:00","slug":"microsoft-releases-the-next-generation-of-its-azure-stack-hci-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/microsoft-releases-the-next-generation-of-its-azure-stack-hci-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases the next-generation of its Azure Stack HCI service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft is rolling out a preview of Azure Stack HCI v2, which will enable users to run the service on their own servers and include built-in integration with Azure Arc, among other new features.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft users who aren’t ready or able to run Azure inside their own or partners’ datacenters have had another hybrid option to access Azure services: Azure Stack HCI. This week, during its Inspire worldwide partner conference, Microsoft is taking the wraps off its second-generation release of Azure Stack HCI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft introduced Azure Stack HCI<\/a> (hyper-converged infrastructure), a new option to run virtualized workloads on premises while connecting to Azure, in March 2019. Microsoft characterized Azure Stack HCI as an “evolution of Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) solutions previously available from its various hardware partners.<\/p>\n

The new iteration of Azure Stack HCI announced today isn’t based on Windows Server, Microsoft officials said. Instead, it’s a new host OS separated from Windows Server, which is designed specifically to run HCI and is integrated with Azure with hybrid by design.<\/p>\n

What else is new and different? Azure Stack HCI v2 includes: <\/p>\n