Azure Stack HCI is Microsoft’s Azure cloud delivered in on-premises hyperconverged software-defined hardware, software, networking, and APIs delivered in Microsoft-certified Windows Server boxes from Microsoft partners.

Just ahead of Discover 2021, HPE announced the availability of both Azure Stack HCI and Microsoft SQL Server for HPE GreenLake.

HPE GreenLake, as we all should know by now, is a subscription service that delivers infrastructure as-a-service for your workloads - on premises, fully managed in a pay-per-use model at the edge, in colocations, and in your data center. <- HPE

This is huge, allowing for the creation of cloud-native solutions within a customer’s premises. Customers can run Windows workloads with the confidence that their environments can be hybridized on their whim and expertise, with coexistence with Linux and other virtualization schemes.

HPE says that GreenLake Azure Stack HCI and SQL Server will be a user-operated point-and-click service utilizing a per-core, pay-per-use model for pricing. It also aims to eliminate the costs associated with overprovisioning.

Sources

HPE: HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform

Block & Files: Azure Stack HCI and SQL Server set sail on HPE’s GreenLake

Search Cloud Computing: HPE bolsters GreenLake with support for Microsoft Azure Stack

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This article originally appeared in the July 2021 issue of The Interlocutor.