Azure Stack is the first product in a new category – the hybrid cloud platform. It is a radical new product that you can think of as delivering the cloud equivalent of a SAN. Delivering a set of IaaS/PaaS Services, APIs, PowerShell and tooling experiences that are consistent with Azure allows it to run solutions from the Azure Marketplace. This allows companies to focus their dev and ops teams on the things that move their business forward, building applications which drive customer value. This session focuses on what Azure Stack is and is not. It articulates the key values it delivers and use cases it enables.

3. WinOps 2016

4. DevOps is about culture
and processes

5. DevOps is NOT
about tools and technology

6. But…..

7. This is wrong

8. Tools and
technology
play a critical
role

9. Tools and technology can
make DevOps
easy or hard

10. Windows Server 2016
was architected
to make DevOps easy=ier

12. • Uptime, break fix
• Focus on reliability,
compliance and financial
management
Development
Develop Test Maintain
Operations
Build Stabilize Deploy Support
• Translate business
requirements to code
• Focus on completing
feature work on time with
quality
Chasm
of
Despair

13. DevOps
Develop Test MaintainBuild Stabilize DeploySupportInsights & & & &
Learning Loops*
* See Sam Guckenheimer’s talk on Maximizing Validated Learning

18. You’ve heard of “Moore’s Law”

19. $$$
*Geoffrey Moore http://ecorner.stanford.edu/videos/1327/Core-and-Context

21. Build what differentiates you Differentiated applications
Buy what doesn’t
Commodity workloads &
Infrastructure
Solve the mission critical/context
dilemma by using the Cloud
Reduce risk by reducing complexity
Standardize, Automate, Outsource

23. Physical
Servers
and
Virtual
Machines
On-
premises,
non-cloud
Old IT

24. Physical
Servers
and
Virtual
Machines
On-
premises,
non-cloud
Old IT New IT reality
Hybrid cloud

25. Physical
Servers
and
Virtual
Machines
On-
premises,
non-cloud
Old IT New IT reality
Hybrid cloud
Implementation
Public cloud
off-premises
Cloud
on-premises

26. Physical
Servers
and
Virtual
Machines
On-
premises,
non-cloud
Old IT New IT reality
Hybrid cloud
TacticImplementation
Public cloud
off-premises
Cloud
on-premises
Solution

35. Azure Stack is new
Don’t project the past onto it

36. Made worse by “cloud washing”

37. First Hybrid Cloud Platform Virtualization-replacement
What it is What it is not
Integrated system with self-service IaaS,
PaaS, & cloud solutions
DIY infrastructure
Regularly updated for Azure-consistency Static system you deploy & forget
Azure Stack

40. Why?

43. Azure Stack integrated system lifecycle
Architecture,
hardware, and
topology
Security and
privacy
Deployment,
configuration,
provisioning
Validation Monitoring,
diagnostics
Business
continuity
Patching and
updates
Field
replacement
of parts
Continuous flow
of innovation from
Azure to Azure Stack

45. First Hybrid Cloud Platform Virtualization-replacement
What it is What it is not
Integrated system with self-service IaaS,
PaaS, & cloud solutions
DIY infrastructure
Regularly updated for Azure-consistency Static system you deploy & forget
Azure Stack

46. Digital Transformation Strategy
Build what differentiates you Differentiated applications
Buy what doesn’t
Commodity workloads &
Infrastructure
Solve the mission critical/context
dilemma by using the Cloud
Reduce risk by reducing complexity
Standardize, Automate, Outsource

49. For Ignite – what is/is not hybrid
(AWS/VMWare)