Does your IT infrastructure consist of various cloud platforms? Or do you still have some on-prem servers running? Then Azure Arc is the perfect tool for you! Because with it, you can manage your entire hybrid or multi-cloud environment in a snap, from one central location. Curious about how exactly that works? Thijs Hereygers, our Azure Arc specialist, outlines all the benefits for your business.
Mon, 28 October 2024
Azure Arc is a tool from Microsoft that allows you to easily manage all servers across your entire IT environment, regardless of whether they are on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, a private cloud, or on-premises. This means that you no longer need to switch between different platforms to update, manage, or monitor your servers. And that you have control over all your resources at any time, wherever they are in your environment.
And the best part of all? All our Azure and cloud services can also be seamlessly applied to the rest of your hybrid environment.
Azure Arc is the bridge (hence the name) between your Azure environment and everything outside of it. But what does that actually mean? When you enable Azure Arc on your environment, you get a helpful overview of the virtual machines (VMs) of your on-prem, public and private cloud environment in the
You can easily add your on-prem data centers, virtual servers at other cloud providers, or edge locations to Azure Arc. And manage them all from a single dashboard, just as if they were Azure resources. This way, you not only get a better view of your entire cloud environment, but you can also update and monitor it in a uniform manner.
With Azure Arc, you can easily implement your security solutions across your entire IT environment. And in a snap, push updates to all your virtual machines, regardless of whether they are on-prem, in a private cloud, or another public cloud. With Azure Arc, you thus get a unified solution to handle auditing, compliance, and role-based access management in your hybrid environment.
Moreover, you can also make smooth use of the security tools in Azure. And deploy them seamlessly across your entire environment.
Azure Arc is not just a convenient tool for managing your hybrid environment from a central dashboard. It also offers a lot of additional possibilities in terms of scalability. Whether it's on-prem datacenters, virtual machines in the public cloud or containerized applications, with Azure Arc you can scale them up and down seamlessly according to your needs.
This way you enjoy a lot more flexibility and your environment also becomes much more cost-effective.
Because Azure Arc completely standardizes your security infrastructure, you have better control over your entire hybrid cloud environment. This way, for example, you can take advantage of Azure's built-in monitoring and compliance features. And you can extend the
In addition, you also have access to the detailed reports in Azure. This allows you to always keep an eye on the performance and status of your resources.
Our experts are more than happy to thoroughly examine your cloud infrastructure. And together with you, they will consider whether Azure Arc could be a suitable solution for your organization.
Managing your IT environment? That takes quite a bit of work. Especially if you're running virtual machines both in the cloud and on-premises, like the National Lottery. Luckily, Azure Arc offers a much simpler solution. With it, businesses can now easily manage all of their virtual machines in their entire infrastructure. Wondering how that works? We're more than happy to tell you all about it!
Xerius is a group of organizations that provides administrative and social services to self-employed professionals, businesses, and families. In order to improve the functionality of their applications, the internal IT team seized the moment to thoroughly rethink the current IT environment. not by simply replacing the existing infrastructure, but by embracing a flexible, hybrid cloud setup with a clear Azure-first strategy at its core.
Migrating to the cloud is a big step. Choosing the right platform? That's a whole different issue. For us, it's simple: we are completely convinced by Microsoft Azure. Why? Because it offers a tremendous amount of impressive benefits for your business. Let's go over them together.
