First look: Microsoft Azure Stack hits the ground running

Microsoft's latest attempt to square the circle of on-premises IT and cloud services, Azure Stack brings what Microsoft describes as a "cloud consistent" platform into the data center. Cloud consistent means that Azure Stack offers the same portal, management, and devops tooling as the Azure cloud service -- although it's not built on the same underlying software, but instead extends Windows Server 2016.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)