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Published inJan 2016
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Amit Malik
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Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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Microsoft Azure Stack


At Ignite April 2015, Microsoft announced the future release of an on-premises cloud platform named Microsoft Azure Stack; Azure Stack isn't the next version to Azure Pack. It works on a different architecture and enables a consistent experience to the Azure preview portal of Microsoft's public cloud.

During Ignite, Brad Anderson, Microsoft's corporate vice president for cloud and enterprise said:

"You've told us you want Azure — all of Azure — in your data centers. Azure Stack … is literally us giving you all of Azure to run in your data centers."

Along with Azure consistency, Azure Stack is expected to deliver built-in hybrid capabilities with MS Azure, which aren't available in the case of WAP.

Azure Stack doesn't include System Center components as a core mandatory requirement for IaaS services. Resource providers will communicate directly with fabric components including Windows Servers and Hyper-V. Azure Stack is expected to deliver more Azure-like services including...

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Amit Malik

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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