As IT departments continue to put more and more focus into combining the best features of public and private clouds, hybrid cloud has become a key investment for many businesses.
Scale Computing Platform delivers cloud-like simplicity, high availability, and scalability built into a self-healing platform for autonomously running applications in remote data centers or at the edge of your network closest to where data is created and utilized. SC//Platform consists of SC//HyperCore which is the complete software stack that provides on-premises autonomous IT infrastructure management and SC//Fleet Manager for centralized monitoring, management and orchestration of that distributed IT infrastructure fleet.
Integrating SC//Platform with various Azure cloud-based services enables an approach to hybrid cloud that allows your IT departments to provide the optimal infrastructure solution for each new or existing application based on the unique requirements of those applications. Requirements such as resiliency to network outages, latency/response, data governance, compliance, and overall cost can be managed on an application-by-application basis.
SC//Platform can run all your on-premises workloads and integration with Azure (and other public cloud providers) lets IT teams provide application developers the ability to continue using the tools and processes they are most productive with for public cloud deployment while providing a true hybrid cloud experience even for widely distributed compute resources.
IT teams can monitor and manage on-premises resources running on SC//HyperCore as if they were Azure-hosted resources and easily support a wide range of modern cloud-native and virtualized workloads. The Autonomous Infrastructure Management Engine (AIME) within SC//HyperCore makes the on-premises hardware and software infrastructure stack nearly invisible, as it is in public cloud deployments.
Connecting SC//Platform to Azure Hybrid Services
You can extend your Azure Cloud to allow management of on-premises deployments of Windows Server (as well as Windows IoT and desktop), most popular Linux OS’s as well as containers and Kubernetes by using Azure hybrid services. This includes virtual machine and container-based workloads running on SC//Platform across one or thousands of locations.
Further, SC//Platform automation and orchestration tools can easily automate the deployment and lifecycle management of those workloads as well as register those workloads securely into your Azure Cloud tenant for ongoing monitoring and management utilizing Azure hybrid services.