#DellTechnologies Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. ( #HPE ) yesterday unveiled a bunch of new integrated systems and services for #Microsoft ’s upcoming #Azure Stack software, in moves aimed at boosting each company’ hybrid cloud efforts. Azure Stack is a piece of software that will, when it’s finally released, allow organizations to replicate Microsoft’s Azure cloud in their own on-premises data centers. It’s believed to be a central part of Microsoft’s hybrid cloud strategy going forwards, which envisions a future wherein most enterprises will choose to host some of their applications and workloads in public clouds, while keeping more sensitive ones secured in their own data centers, or “private clouds.” The idea behind Dell’s and HPE’s new systems is that they’ll help businesses that wish to follow the hybrid cloud approach build on-premises infrastructure that has the same agility and flexibility as public cloud platforms like Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. “Many enterprises would like to host Azure within their data centers for performance, security or compliance reasons, and many service providers would like to offer Azure-compatible services for data sovereignty or other targeted services,” Paul Miller, HPE’s vice president of marketing for converged data center infrastructure, said in a statement. “HPE is teaming up with Microsoft to deliver the right mix of on- and off-premises Azure services with built-in security, operations management, pay-as-you-go pricing and the expertise that provides unmatched flexibility and cost savings for enterprise workloads.” Microsoft’s General Manager of Product Marketing Mike Schutz agreed, saying that his company and HPE share the view that “hybrid cloud capabilities and consistency across public and private cloud environments help customers accelerate their cloud strategy.” Just this week, Microsoft announced the release of Azure Stack Technical Preview 2. However, the official release of Azure Stack won’t come until summer of next year, when it will be bundled with pre-validated integrated solutions, with Dell, HPE and #Lenovo Group Ltd. all named as official partners. Dell and HPE both already sell systems capable of running Microsoft’s Azure software, but today’s announcement is a significant expansion of both company’s portfolios.
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