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Design, Operate, Secure, and Evolve
Organizations have different requirements for different workloads. Some applications need to run close to production systems, manufacturing equipment, cameras, sensors, or local users to minimize latency and ensure consistent performance. Others may be subject to regulatory, data residency, or security requirements that influence where data is processed and stored.
Azure Local extends the Azure experience beyond the public cloud, enabling organizations to run applications, data platforms, and AI workloads where it makes the most sense while maintaining a consistent cloud operating model.
With Azure Local, you can modernize at your own pace, leverage familiar Azure services and management capabilities, and support both existing and modern applications across a hybrid environment. This makes it well suited for scenarios such as real-time manufacturing systems, local AI inferencing at the edge, retail environments requiring immediate decision-making, and organizations operating under strict compliance or data sovereignty requirements.
By bringing Azure capabilities closer to where data is created and consumed, Azure Local helps organizations unlock the value of AI while meeting performance, operational, and regulatory requirements.
Offer Detail
Solution
From strategy to Hybrid Cloud operations
With Orange Business, you gain a trusted end-to-end partner for Azure Local and Azure, providing expertise in solution design, operations, security, cost optimization, and application modernization to help you build a future-ready hybrid cloud.
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We help you design and build the right hybrid cloud foundation for your business. From workload placement and infrastructure planning to operating models and governance, our experts can advise, architect, and implement a solution that aligns with your business, technical, and regulatory requirements.
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Optimize performance, capacity, and cloud spending through continuous assessment and right sizing. Our specialists help ensure workloads run in the most appropriate location while providing visibility, recommendations, and ongoing optimization of your hybrid cloud estate.
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Strengthen security across your hybrid environment with consistent policies, monitoring, identity management, and governance. Orange Business can assist with the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of security controls that support your compliance and cybersecurity objectives.
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Operate Azure Local and Azure as a unified platform. Orange Business can provide day-to-day management, monitoring, incident handling, governance, and operational support through a consistent operating model that spans both local and cloud environments.
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Accelerate application modernization with guidance and expertise across containers, Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and AI-ready architectures. Whether you're modernizing existing applications or building new digital services, we can support the journey from strategy to implementation and operations.
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Access a dedicated team of Azure and hybrid cloud specialists who can support every stage of your Azure Local journey. From initial deployment and operational management to modernization initiatives and continuous optimization, we work alongside your team to help maximize the value of your investment.
Tailor-made services
Challenges we help you solve
Azure Local is ideal for organizations that need to address challenges such as:
Extend Azure capabilities to environments where performance, data residency, operational, or regulatory requirements must be met locally.
Provide development teams with a consistent and governed application platform, allowing developers to focus on delivering business value rather than managing underlying cloud and platform services.
Support AI and data-driven initiatives closer to factories, branches, stores, or other operational environments where real-time insights matter most.
Maintain control over sensitive data and comply with industry regulations without limiting access to Azure innovation and services.
Simplify operations, governance, security, and monitoring across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments through a unified platform.
Adopt modern cloud technologies and operating models while continuing to support existing business-critical applications.
Ensure infrastructure resources remain aligned with business needs through continuous monitoring, right-sizing, and platform optimization.
The right platform for your business requirements
Orange Business helps Microsoft customers extend the Azure platform to on-premises and edge environments through Azure Local, providing a consistent foundation for applications, data, AI, security, and operations across the hybrid cloud.
We understand that every organization has unique requirements for operations, security, availability, and innovation. That's why we start with your business objectives and technical needs. Our specialists help youdesign a solution that combines the control and performance of local infrastructure with the scalability, management capabilities, and innovation of Azure.
Whether supporting manufacturing facilities, data centers, regional offices, AI inferencing at the edge, or other mission-critical environments, we help you build a platform that is secure, consistent, and easy to manage as your business evolves.
Benefits of Azure Local
- Choose the right location for each workload based on latency, resilience, security, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements.
- Maintain local control of business-critical applications, data, and AI workloads while using consistent Azure management, governance, and operational capabilities.
- Simplify governance, security, monitoring, and operations across Azure, on-premises, edge, and distributed locations through a unified platform.
- Support existing applications, cloud-native services, data platforms, and AI inferencing on a common foundation that enables modernization without disrupting critical operations.
- Meet security, availability, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements while retaining access to Azure services and innovation.
- Continuously optimize capacity, performance, cost, and platform capabilities as business priorities, workloads, and technology requirements evolve.
- Extend the life of legacy Windows and SQL Server workloads with included security updates, giving you more time to modernize while reducing risk and cost.
Contact us
Contact us to learn how Azure Local can support your business and accelerate your hybrid cloud and AI journey.
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