What are we going to do today? The same thing we do every day. Trying to take over all our servers. Just that today, we’ll succeed I promise. How? With Azure Arc.

In this episode, I show you some basic server management features available in public preview with Azure Arc. You’ll also learn how easy it is to onboard machines; in the example shown a VM from AWS.

I can only answer this question for about 2-3 online services I use. The rest is just based on hopeful assumptions, and I’m not happy about that. Are you? Finding out that information can be a very lengthy process and often you won’t find any good data from the companies in question. This needs to be much easier so that everyone of all ages and backgrounds can decide if they want to entrust their data to a company or not. I firmly believe that we need an internationally recognized symbol that can easily show us if a company is trustworthy or not.

But why would anyone want to do that? Watch the video and find out. The ability to deploy an Azure data service on any hardware has tremendous value as it can address data residency requirements, disconnected scenarios as well as bringing the goodness of the services you receive in Azure to other cloud providers.

Some customers want to keep their data on-premises for a variety of reasons. When buying hardware, most companies invest to cover the maximum capacity requirement. But besides a few bursts during the year, their infrastructure is running below >20% of the paid capacity. This is inefficient and too costly.

Data Protection laws are on the rise, especially the requirement to store data within the national borders of a country. These restrictions have become a real challenge for Global businesses around the world to uphold them while competing in a world where user experience and time to market are critical to their success.