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Azure Local
Azure Local enables organisations to operate infrastructure across locations of your choice – including Six Degrees data centres.
Speak to an ExpertWhy Invest in Azure Local?
Azure Local enables organisations to operate infrastructure across locations of your choice – including Six Degrees data centres – with unified management enabled by Azure Arc. As an experienced Microsoft Partner, Six Degrees can help you deploy, host, and manage your Azure Local infrastructure.
Azure Local is full-stack infrastructure software that runs directly on bare metal hardware validated by OEM partners. With it, you can run containers, virtual machines, and some Azure services at distributed locations with central management from the cloud, enabled by Azure Arc. Microsoft provides and supports the complete software stack, so you don’t need separate tools or vendors for the underlying virtualisation or storage.
Who is Azure Local For?
Azure Local is ideal for organisations with:
Strict Data Sovereignty/Compliance
Useful for organisations needing to keep data and applications in the United Kingdom while using Azure management tools, including government, defence, and healthcare organisations or organisations handling sensitive information about UK citizens.
Latency-Sensitive Workloads
Designed for scenarios requiring near real-time processing, such as factory automation, industrial quality assurance, and local AI inferencing.
Legacy Modernisation
IT teams looking to replace aging VMware/SAN environments with a modern, software-defined, HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) solution or looking to modernise software to use containers and Kubernetes.
Disconnected/Disconnected-Ready Environments
Supports environments that are occasionally disconnected from the internet, ensuring mission-critical systems continue to function locally.
Edge and Distributed Locations
Ideal for branches, retail stores, manufacturing sites, or any location needing local compute power that syncs with Azure.
Introducing Azure Local from Six Degrees
Extend Azure to your on-premises infrastructure.
Azure Local allows you to take advantage of cloud and on-premises or partner hosted resources working together and natively monitor, secure, integrate with Azure public cloud, and back up to the cloud.
Workload Assessment
Find your best target platform for each workload.
Our Workload Assessment is a quick, effective way to begin planning your cloud migration strategy. Six Degrees can analyse your existing infrastructure, calculate the cost of running your workloads on our Private Cloud, and compare it with public cloud pricing. The Workload Assessment simplifies the process of evaluating each workload and identifying the optimal target platform, ensuring your hybrid cloud is:
- Cost optimised – minimising unnecessary spend.
- Risk mitigated – never compromising your operational resilience.
- Growth ready – able to scale with your business.
Azure Local Core Capabilities
Take advantage of cloud and on-premises or partner hosted resources working together.
Cloud-based operations
Use Azure tools and APIs for more consistent infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle operations across distributed locations.
Governance through central management and visibility
Achieve strong governance – monitor, update, and secure Azure Local infrastructure directly from the Azure portal using familiar Azure services.
Support for diverse workloads
Run containers, VMs, and select Azure services – including Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure IoT Operations – side by side.
Multiple-node clustering
Increase resilience and uptime with high availability and robust software-defined storage.
Cloud-based VM management
Expand cloud practices with VM extensions, Azure Marketplace images, templates, and role-based access control (RBAC).
Integrated Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) experience
Simplify Kubernetes management and enhance developer productivity with built-in AKS.
Cost-effective migration
Use the tried and tested Azure Migrate tool to migrate workloads from VMware environments to Azure Local.
Azure Local with disconnected operations
Azure Local and Microsoft 365 Local with disconnected operations bring cloud-consistency and data sovereignty to environments with limited or no connectivity.
Secure collaboration and control with Sovereign Private Cloud
Azure Local with Microsoft 365 Local delivers Microsoft cloud services in customer locations, enabling organisations to meet strict data residency and sovereignty requirements.
Foundry Local
An on-device AI inference solution, Foundry Local can be used to run AI models locally through a CLI, SDK, or REST API.
Six Degrees’ Azure Local Services
As an experienced Microsoft Partner with its own Tier III data centres and managed colocation services, Six Degrees is ideally placed to host and manage your Azure Local deployment:
Assessment and planning
We will guide you to establish the business case, goals, and technical requirements for Azure Local.
Design and architecture
We will translate your strategic goals into a technical blueprint.
Implementation and migration
We will migrate your workloads to Azure Local.
Testing and validation
Before going live, we will test and verify that your Azure Local environment is secure and functions correctly.
Azure Local as a Service
We will deliver full in-life managed services, including monitoring and optimisation.
Why Six Degrees?
Six Degrees is best placed to deliver Azure Local services to your organisation.
Our Microsoft credentials
We are a highly accredited UK-based Microsoft partner.
VMware Certified Cloud Provider
We are a VMware Certified Cloud Provider.
We know cloud
Having built and operated cloud platforms for over a decade, we truly are your trusted advisor on all things cloud.
Connectivity options
We offer a wide range of connectivity options between your sites, our data centres, and Azure.
Security is in our DNA
We own and operate a 24x7 UK-based Security Operations Centre (SOC), and all our products are designed around security first principles.
Azure Local Product Overview
Learn more about Azure Local services from Six Degrees.
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