Microsoft has added Azure management capabilities to Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), per a Friday announcement. Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM is currently at the preview ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Initially announced in 2019, Azure Arc is a strategic technology for Microsoft to expand its footprint to the enterprise data center and other public cloud platforms. Azure Arc is the only offering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover emerging technologies with a focus on infrastructure and AI With Arc, customers can bring existing infrastructure running ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

‘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 ...

Azure Arc does not replace Azure Stack, which is a much more mature platform that provides a wider range of Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions. At this juncture, Azure Arc only offers two ...