Moving Azure To Hybrid Cloud Environments

Microsoft had huge success with Azure, the company's cloud computing platform. Now, the software giant is taking steps to move Azure into hybrid cloud environments with the announcement of the general availability of Azure Stack, an extension of Azure.

Microsoft's hardware partners, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC and Lenovo, will ship Azure Stack with their hardware systems. Microsoft is pricing Azure Stack using pay-as-you-go use and capacity-based models.

Microsoft is also making available an Azure Stack Development Kit for building and deploying applications for Azure hybrid cloud environments. Microsoft is offering a free single-server deployment option of the SDK for trial purposes.