The good news is that Microsoft introduced a new hybrid cloud platform that makes it easy for government agencies to embrace the cloud at a pace and scale that match their comfort level. Microsoft Azure Stack enables governments to deliver cloud-based services from their own datacenters in a way that’s consistent with Microsoft Azure, essentially allowing organizations to take advantage of the public, private, and hosted cloud, however and whenever they choose.

By choosing Microsoft Azure, governments can deliver truly innovative digital citizen services and promote economic opportunity—at the same time they improve security. And with Azure Stack, governments can embrace a truly hybrid environment in which they decide which data to store in the public or private cloud.

For example, they can keep confidential data on-premises, while moving non-sensitive data to the cloud. Or they can keep most of their data on-premises, using the public cloud for large data computations or to scale up during busy times of the year. As circumstances change, agencies can seamlessly move workloads between their on-premises environments and the public cloud.

Azure Stack is the first truly hybrid platform, allowing governments to easily and flexibly operate their workloads wherever they see fit. They can introduce infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities into their on-premises datacenter. They can also take advantage of a “write once, deploy to Azure or Azure Stack” approach, in which applications are built and deployed in the same manner no matter where they are housed. This is possible because Azure Stack uses the same APIs as Azure.  This level of consistency also enables a single set of management and automation tools to operate across both cloud environments.

Azure Stack is a game-changer—one that enables government agencies to truly embrace the cloud on their terms.

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