Microsoft Events presents a session by Brendan Burns and Steven Bucher on Azure Arc, highlighting how Azure’s management extends to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with security and operational strategies for system administrators.

Azure Arc: Extending Azure for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management

Presented by: Brendan Burns, Steven Bucher Event: Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Session BRK183)

Overview

Azure Arc brings Azure’s powerful and unified management experience to environments beyond Azure, including on-premises datacenters and other cloud providers. This session delves into how organizations can achieve consistent governance, security, and operations across diverse platforms—bridging on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud setups.

Key Topics Covered

Unified Management: Use Azure Arc to manage resources across Azure, on-premises, and other clouds with the same tools and standards.
Governance and Security: Apply Azure policies, compliance rules, and security controls universally, regardless of resource location.
Operational Consistency: Centralize operational practices for monitoring, updates, and management of both Windows and Linux environments.
System Center Cloud-Native Journey: Learn how legacy System Center customers can transition to cloud-native management models with Azure Arc.
Modernization Strategies: Approaches for modernizing existing Windows/Linux workloads and adopting new cloud-native applications.
Management Agents and Tooling: Utilize Azure Arc’s agents and toolsets to bridge the gap between traditional datacenter operations and modern cloud management solutions.

Practical Benefits

Gain a single point of management for servers, Kubernetes clusters, and applications running anywhere.
Implement consistent security and compliance policies at scale.
Increase agility in managing multi-cloud and hybrid environments while leveraging familiar Azure tools.

Resources

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