Azure Stack
Build and run hybrid apps across datacenters, edge locations, remote offices and the cloud
Extend Azure services and capabilities to your environment of choice—from the datacenter to edge locations and remote offices—with Azure Stack. Build, deploy and run hybrid and edge computing apps consistently across your IT ecosystem, with flexibility for diverse workloads.
Explore Azure Stack scenarios
Cloud-managed appliance
Azure Stack Edge
Run edge-computing workloads
Get rapid insights with an Azure managed appliance using compute and hardware-accelerated machine learning at edge locations for your Internet of Things (IoT) and AI workloads.
Use Azure Stack Edge for:
- Machine learning at the edge
- Edge and IoT solutions
- Network data transfer from edge to cloud
Hyperconverged infrastructure
Azure Stack HCI PREVIEW
Modernise your datacentre
Refresh your virtualisation host using a hybrid and hyperconverged solution integrated with Azure.
Use Azure Stack HCI for:
- Scalable virtualisation and storage
- Modernising on-premises architecture
- Remote branch offices
- High-performance workloads
Cloud-native integrated system
Azure Stack Hub
Use cloud services on-premises
Run your own private, autonomous cloud—connected or disconnected with cloud-native apps using consistent Azure services on-premises.
Use Azure Stack Hub for:
- Connected and disconnected scenarios
- Data sovereignty
- App modernisation
Experience the Azure Stack devices in our new augmented reality app in 3D
See what ‘the art of the possible’ means to your business
Azure Stack is a portfolio of products that extend Azure services and capabilities to your environment of choice—from the datacentre to edge locations and remote offices. Build and deploy hybrid and edge computing applications and run them consistently across location boundaries. See how Azure Stack gives you the flexibility to address your diverse workloads.
Azure Stack industries
Meet regulatory requirements
Streamline compliance with industry, government and company regulations by running cloud apps on-premises—and help keep your data, apps and identities secure.
Modernize financial apps
Increase the efficiency of your mission-critical apps with Azure services, containers, serverless and microservices architecture.
Get real-time intelligence
Help mitigate risks, make more informed business decisions and personalise the customer experience with machine learning models that yield real-time data and analysis.
Speed up cloud migration
Simplify your transition to the cloud and run cloud apps in an on-premises environment.
Use predictive vehicle maintenance
Reduce maintenance costs and overhead by anticipating vehicle issues and fixing them quickly with machine learning and IoT solutions at the edge.
Improve citizen services
Provide practical, predictive and efficient services for citizens by enhancing your on-premises app and database performance.
Meet compliance regulations
Adhere to specific data compliance, regulatory and policy requirements by using a common set of tools for building and managing data and apps.
Update and extend legacy apps
Take advantage of enhanced security, scalability and flexibility by extending legacy apps to the cloud—and improve the performance of on-premises apps that are not yet ready for the cloud.
Bring the cloud to your factory floor
Streamline your operations and increase your efficiency with a hybrid cloud environment that runs Azure services without needing to connect to the internet.
Get immediate intelligence
Help ensure quality control and prevent damage on the production line by using cameras to monitor your goods for product defects in real time.
Avoid unscheduled downtime
Shift your operations from reactive to proactive by using predictive maintenance. Automate the detection of potential equipment failures by running intelligent hybrid apps where your data lives.
Improve employee safety
Identify hazardous situations before they happen by providing alerts to equipment operators.
Deliver unforgettable customer experiences
Increase customer satisfaction by using intelligent data to run your business more efficiently. Get deeper insights into footfall, dwell time and promotional placements at your physical stores.
Maximise on-shelf availability
Alert store managers to rapidly dwindling items before they run out of stock by monitoring inventory with cameras and other in-store equipment.
Reduce shrinkage
Decrease inventory losses and other shrinkage by providing intelligence and insights into theft, ticket switching, return frauds and voids.
Enable pick-and-go shopping
Provide product SKUs, prices and other necessary data for pick-and-go retail checkout scenarios.
Run cloud services offline
Deliver critical cloud services to areas that are disconnected from the internet, like the upstream operations of oil and gas companies and the grid operations of power utilities.
Store, aggregate, model and analyse data
Process large volumes of data locally and get insights immediately, whether you are doing seismic data modeling, wind power projection or grid consumption.
Reduce costly equipment failures
Monitor equipment, detect anomalies and send alerts about potential failures in wind farms, well sites, refineries and grid infrastructures using IoT devices and IoT Edge.
Identify and resolve onsite issues faster
Analyse video streams from hazardous and hard-to-reach areas like rigs, oil tanks, pipelines and high voltage lines—and alert equipment operators and vendors to potential issues.
Optimise legacy apps and workloads
Smoothly transition your legacy apps and workloads to a cloud environment—and digitally transform your field operations.
Improve data analytics and records management
Locally aggregate, process and store medical records. Take advantage of intelligent, real-time analytics using AI in specialties like digital pathology, medical imaging and research and genomics.
Modernise legacy systems
Connect medical devices and apps to healthcare IT networks. Aggregate essential data within each device and help safeguard patients from equipment malfunctions by minimising data delays.
Update IT infrastructures and clinical environments
Improve emergency department wait times, operating room performance, bed utilisation and patient-flow bottlenecks by transitioning legacy infrastructures and IT environments to the cloud.
See how customers are using Azure Stack
Dr. Peter Weckesser, Digital Transformation Officer, Airbus Defence and Space"I really want my engineers to focus on the value that differentiates us and build this on a platform stack, which is always up to date and leading edge."
Dag Jørgensen, Chief Information Officer, KPMG Norway"With Azure Stack and Azure, we have the flexibility to adapt to change, no matter where change comes from."
Jonathan Cassar, Chief Technology Officer, Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA)"Now, there's really no limit to the kind of information systems we can deliver to our citizens."
Haakon Agerup Jacobsen, Senior Project Manager, Tieto"With Azure Stack Hub, we are able to provide cloud systems and cloud services with all the benefits of automation and still be compliant within Norwegian legislation."
Christopher Rivers, Director, Information Technology, Canadian Museum for Human Rights"We clearly needed a hybrid solution, but we wanted to use the same tool set, administration, and training for both platforms. Only Microsoft checked all the boxes. That's why we chose Azure Stack HCI solutions."
T. Michael Thornton, Vice President R&D, Customer Solutions Business, Olympus"The on-premises nature of Azure Stack Edge and the Intel-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) make it really seamless for us to be able to integrate that device into part of our natural application."
Azure Stack resources and documentation
Azure Stack portfolio webinar
Watch this webinar to learn how the Azure Stack portfolio helps you build, deploy and run hybrid and edge computing applications consistently across location boundaries to address your diverse workloads.
Azure Stack portfolio datasheet
Download the datasheet to learn more about Azure Stack scenarios and solution details.
Cloud Anywhere e-book
Read this e-book to learn about specific opportunities for implementing hybrid cloud infrastructure in your organisation.
Azure hybrid graphic
See how Azure gives you flexibility across on-premises, multicloud and the edge.