{"id":637,"date":"2020-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T01:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:45:46","slug":"azure-lighthouse-managing-cloud-hybrid-and-edge-environments-atscale-through-a-single-control-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-lighthouse-managing-cloud-hybrid-and-edge-environments-atscale-through-a-single-control-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Lighthouse\u2014managing cloud, hybrid, and edge environments at-scale through a single control plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thousands of partners and enterprises use Azure Lighthouse<\/a> to manage services across Azure tenants, representing tens of thousands of subscriptions and more than one million Azure resources from Azure Resource Manager\u2014a unified control plane. With Azure Lighthouse, service providers, as well as self-managing enterprises, can achieve higher operational efficiency using Azure\u2019s comprehensive and robust management tools. You can now view and manage resources, with higher automation, scale, and enhanced governance across hybrid estates and on-premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is common for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to service customer resources across hybrid estates and on-premises environments. Many MSP partners rely on Azure Lighthouse, and now Azure Arc, to achieve a unified management solution in these advanced scenarios. MSPs can extend their service offerings to manage their customers\u2019 on-premises environments through Azure Resource Manager, managing resources at scale and governing compliance using Azure policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ClearDATA\u2014delivering robust governance across hybrid environments for healthcare customers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Using Azure Lighthouse, Azure Policy, and Azure Arc, ClearDATA\u2014an Azure Expert MSP and ISV\u2014provides compliance insights to enterprise customers in regulated industries, such as healthcare. Azure Arc enables ClearDATA to easily perform virtual machine inventories in hybrid environments, while Azure Policy used with Azure Lighthouse helps them to achieve consistency, security, and compliance across all of their customers in all of the clouds and private datacenters or branch offices the customers use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ClearDATA provides compliance state insights across hybrid environments to enterprise customers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClearDATA\u2019s HIPAA compliant and HITRUST 9.1 certified solutions on Azure help enterprise organizations easily transition and accelerate their move to the cloud with greater confidence. A rich library of compliance reference architecture for Azure services, coupled with our unique Automated Safeguards and Remediation technology, unlocks the true potential of Azure Lighthouse and Azure cloud. Our visual and easy-to-use compliance dashboard and flexible reports provide transparency and visibility needed to demonstrate compliance.<\/i>\u201d\u2014Suhas Kelkar, Chief Product Officer, ClearDATA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yorktel\u2014monitoring customer edge devices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yorktel manages health states of Microsoft collaboration devices (Surface Hubs 1, 2, and Microsoft Teams Rooms), including displays, microphones, cameras, speakers, and Microsoft Teams\u2019 real-time features, on-behalf of its end-customers. By pivoting to Azure Monitor as their primary monitoring tool, and Azure Lighthouse as their secure access mechanism, Yorktel is shaking up edge device management. Consolidated views across all its customers provides Yorktel with comprehensive oversight, enabling timely alerts that trigger response workflows for speedy problem resolution. Azure Lighthouse has created smoother user experiences and higher customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yorktel\u2019s Azure-based monitoring workflow for edge devices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYorktel\u2019s Azure Lighthouse enabled monitoring and management solution couldn\u2019t have come at a better time. As the post-COVID-19 world prepares to return to work, this proactive problem and resolution technology presents the potential for dramatic impact, both for managed services providers and their customers. The efficiencies generated by faster, large-scale problem resolution will allow companies to focus on the strategic and transformational initiatives that will help them grow and acclimate to the post-COVID-19 world, rather than the tactical, day-to-day \u2018keeping the lights on\u2019.\u201d <\/em>\u2014Jeremy Short, SVP of Microsoft Solutions, Yorktel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vandis\u2014delivering managed network services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Azure Lighthouse has also enabled multiple service providers, such as Azure Networking MSPs<\/a>, to build and operate optimized hybrid connectivity from customer premises to customer subscriptions in Azure. Vandis, for example, uses Azure Lighthouse to plan, build, and operate a hybrid network for customers based on Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Express Route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAzure Lighthouse has enabled us to expand our Network-as-a-Service Platform to our customers as well as drive work-from-home solutions such as Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure.\u201d <\/i>\u2014<\/i>Ryan Young, CTO, Vandis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Lighthouse\u2014continuing to innovate for management-at-scale scenarios in Azure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to all our partners who continue to add value to our joint customers with enhanced services for managing Azure and hybrid estates. Our team is as motivated as ever to innovate for our partner ecosystem, and we\u2019ve been constantly adding new Azure Lighthouse capabilities as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n