Azure Local is the new name for Azure Stack HCI, introduced to create a unified brand for Microsoft's distributed infrastructure solutions. Azure Local continues to offer the same functionalities as Azure Stack HCI, allowing organizations to run Azure services on-premises.  The rebranding does not affect existing deployments, configurations, or integrations, ensuring a smooth transition for current users.  

In this blog, we'll explore the differences between Azure Stack HCI and Azure Local, both technically and non-technically, and highlight real use cases, benefits, and who needs these solutions.

Azure Local is the new name for Azure Stack HCI, introduced to create a unified brand for Microsoft's distributed infrastructure solutions. Azure Local continues to offer the same functionalities as Azure Stack HCI, allowing organizations to run Azure services on-premises.  The rebranding does not affect existing deployments, configurations, or integrations, ensuring a smooth transition for current users.  

In this blog, we'll explore the differences between Azure Stack HCI and Azure Local, both technically and non-technically, and highlight real use cases, benefits, and who needs these solutions.

Cloud Assert released a new feature 'VM Placement Recommendation' as part of VConnect Multi-stamp Management (MSM) solution for Azure Stack Hub.

Cloud Assert introduced a new feature ‘Multi-currency Exchange Rate’ on top of the Hybr billing and cost management solution that enables tailored pricing.

Leveraging Cloud Assert VConnect Resource Provider for Azure Stack Hub, you can experience a powerful way to handle and take actions across multiple stamps in a single.

Cloud Assert released a new capability in VConnect to manage multiple Azure Stack Hub stamps from a single portal with one-pane of glass experience considering typical operator and end-user scenarios.

Managing your Multiple Azure Stack Hub Stamps makes you feel exhausted. With VConnect, it is not necessary to jump between various stamp portals to check and monitor the health, version updates across the stamps, and making sure that they are all in a consistent state and kept in sync.

Hybrid IT is the governing IT strategy in the market today. We are eager about using cloud services to optimize our returns.

People who are invested in Azure Stack Hub are looking for the solution to chargeback their customers based on the usage collected in the usage collector. Azure Stack Hub comes with the default usage collector but it doesn’t comes with the billing RP as Azure public cloud.

Enterprise companies, Cloud solution providers, Managed service providers, Telecom industries, Healthcare industries, banking Industries, etc., or those who are having their asset in different service providers are looking for a solution to recover their investment by rubbing the cost to their tenants.Also, they wish to apply promotional credits to their customers as a promotional activity to grab the customers towards their business. For addressing those scenarios, Cloud Assert built Hybr which is a hybrid cloud management platform with end to end billing solution to charge-back/ show-back your customers using various pricing models

Hybr has the capability to render the virtual machine in the browser window, which uses RDP, SSH and VNC protocols. Using this capability, the virtual machines can be accessed outside the network connectivity without assigning public IP for each virtual machine