#AzureStack is nearly ready for public release, with at least one remaining question: Will Azure stack scale to accommodate enterprises with larger-scale requirements?
#Microsoft #AzureStack is designed to run workloads within an enterprise data center in the same way they would run in Azure public cloud, orchestrated through Azure Resource Manager. The technology has been in the works since 2015 with three different technical previews during the past 18 months. It will finally be released as an appliance via hardware partners #DellEMC, #HewlettPackardEnterprise and #Lenovo in September, with appliances from other vendors coming later.
But this early version of Azure Stack will be as one-rack deployments -- companies cannot build a single Azure Stack environment across multiple locations because the code is not ready yet for projects that size, said Jeff DeVerter, CTO of Microsoft technologies at Rackspace.
"The first workloads will stay in the science project category, although I would like to be proven wrong," he said.
DeVerter said he does not know of any current multi-node installations. He does expect multi-rack deployments to be possible in early 2018, which should pave the way for its usage in larger companies.
Appriss Retail In. in Louisville, Ky, provides predictive analytics to large retail companies, many of whom prefer to keep sales transaction data out of the public cloud due to privacy concerns, said David West, the firm's senior vice president for hosting services.
While Appriss is largely virtualized, Azure Stack could reduce the need to buy and provision servers that retail customers don't see. That would allow West and his team to make more strategic use of their time.
"We can see the benefits of Azure Stack by being able to divorce ourselves from the hardware and focus on the applications," he said. "Plus, we could get a lot of the benefits of the public cloud and still maintain the ability to say to our customers the data is not going into the public cloud."
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