Azure is advancing its cloud strategy with Azure Arc, aiming to facilitate the adoption of cloud innovation across entire IT estates. This approach integrates Azure Arc with AI to create a collaborative innovation and operations platform across hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT environments. Customers can leverage AI for central management and security, rapid application development and scaling, and cultivating insights across physical operations.
Azure recognizes the challenges faced by customers, such as legacy applications, heterogeneous environments, and fragmented data, in adopting cloud-native practices. To address these challenges, Azure is developing a single AI-enhanced platform for developing highly distributed applications that reveal insights and accelerate transformation.
Key components of Azure’s approach include:
- AI-enhanced central management and security: Azure Arc enables customers to operate with enhanced central management and security.
- Rapid application development and scaling: Azure Arc allows for rapidly developing and scaling applications across boundaries.
- Cultivating data and insights across physical operations: Azure Arc helps customers cultivate data and insights across physical operations, enabling them to harness the benefits of cloud-native architecture and engineering in physical operations.
Azure’s adaptive cloud approach aims to empower organizations to build applications designed to be distributed across public cloud and operational environments, with consistent AI-enhanced services running anywhere. This approach is expected to transform operations across various industries, from brick-and-mortar facilities to supply chains, by integrating cloud-native technology and practices into physical operations.
