As digital transformation accelerates, many organisations find themselves with a mix of on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Managing this hybrid landscape can be difficult, as it necessitates juggling different tools and consoles, limiting agility and efficiency.
Azure Arc is a game changer for hybrid IT. It takes Azure’s power, management capabilities, and services beyond the cloud and directly into your traditional infrastructure. Consider extending Azure’s power and simplicity to your on-premises servers, Kubernetes clusters, and even data services, resulting in a unified administration experience across your whole environment.
Prior to Azure Arc, hybrid IT management frequently meant:
- Fragmented Tools: A collection of diverse tools for servers, virtual machines, Kubernetes, and databases that leads to complexity and inefficiency.
- Visibility is limited: Data silos and dashboard silos impede complete monitoring and analytics across your entire hybrid ecosystem.
- Disparity in security rules and techniques for cloud and on-premises environments, resulting in possible vulnerabilities.
- Scalability Bottlenecks: The inability to scale existing infrastructure as business needs expand.
The Azure Arc comes to the rescue!
Azure Arc gives you the ability to:
- Extend Azure Management: Manage your on-premises servers, Kubernetes clusters, and data services easily from the Azure portal or command line interface, providing a consistent and familiar experience.
- Gain Centralised Visibility: Monitor and manage your whole hybrid environment from a single pane of glass, with holistic dashboards and real-time information.
- Increase Security: Use unified security rules and technologies across cloud and on-premises environments to improve your overall security posture.
- Embrace Seamless Scalability: Use Azure’s global reach and capabilities to efficiently scale your existing infrastructure to meet peak demands or future expansion.
But how exactly does it work?
- Install the Azure Arc controller: A lightweight service that runs on-premises or in the cloud that connects your infrastructure to Azure.
- Install the following Azure Arc extensions: These extensions enable specialised Azure services, such as VM management, Kubernetes management, or data services, for your chosen resources.
- From the Azure interface, you can manage: When your on-premises resources are connected, they show in the Azure interface, where you can manage them alongside your cloud resources using common Azure tools and rules.
The advantages of Azure Arc go beyond ease and efficiency:
- Cost savings: Reduce tool sprawl and streamline management, saving time and resources.
- Improved Innovation: Use Azure services such as AI and analytics on your existing infrastructure to uncover new possibilities.
- Improved Developer Experience: When management tools and services are consistent across the hybrid environment, development workflows run more smoothly.
- Future-Proof Architecture: Azure Arc’s flexible and scalable approach prepares your hybrid infrastructure for the future.
Don’t let your legacy infrastructure stymie you. Use Azure Arc to transform your hybrid IT into a cohesive, agile, and cost-effective platform that powers your digital transformation journey.
