We talk Hybrid Cloud Management via Azure Arc with Thomas Maurer from the Azure Advocacy team at Microsoft! This episode features a lot of discussion around Microsoft’s hybrid cloud strategy, planning, and management with Azure Arc. Azure Arc brings together management of different clouds into the same UI. You can even setup your on-prem Azure Stack HCI deployments as “Custom Locations” inside of Arc so they appear as sites within the Azure control plane.

This management story is becoming critically important. Many IT Pros see Hybrid Cloud as a destination and not a temporary state. The need for these kinds of management tools is only going to grow. With that said, Andy and Thomas spend a good chunk of the episode talking about Hybrid cloud deployments, technologies, and where Azure Arc fits into it all!

We hope you enjoy!

In this episode

• What is Azure Cloud Advocate? - 2:12
• The Focus on Hybrid Cloud at Microsoft - 10:40
• Examples of Hybrid Cloud Deployments - 12:50
• What are the different options for Hybrid Cloud in the Microsoft Stack? - 16:14
• How does Azure Arc Fit into Microsoft’s Hybrid Cloud Story? - 24:51
• What Azure Stack option fits best where? - 32:34
• For someone new to Microsoft Hybrid technologies, what are some resources to get started? - 36:26

Resources for Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc

• Learn more about Azure Arc on the DOJO
• Webinar on Azure Stack HCI
• IT Pro Resources at the DOJO
• Azure Stack Products on Microsoft Docs
• Microsoft Learn
• Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
• Thomas’s Blog