Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
All-In-One Servers for Virtualized Computing, Networking, and Storage
Able to run a virtual machine on premises then connect to cloud for recovery or management.
Small footprint server starting at 2 nodes, and a system costing less than $10k/node.
Windows Admin Center can manage the hybrid nature, while handling normal daily operations and issues.
Support the latest NVMe drives, persistent memory, and remote-direct memory access (RDMA) networking.
Azure HCI is a cluster that runs on validated hardware for performance and resiliency.
Allow users, apps, and VMs in a two-node HCI cluster to run through hardware failures without disruption, and without the added expense of a hardware RAID.
Program & web developers can use virtual machines on servers that allocate the resources accordingly while allowing them to work remotely.
Documents and workload can be shared on systems that are at different locations, reducing need for multiple servers. Servers can essentially be a cluster that shares resources.
Student data, payroll, etc. is safely shared and stored in software-defined storage. Furthermore, consolidation and efficient resource management reduces costs.