Azure Stack HCI Alternatives (September 2025)

Learn how Azure Stack brings the agility of cloud computing to your on-premises environment.

Use Azure Arc solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud management to run Azure services anywhere. Accelerate innovation with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

Simplify and accelerate your IT with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged, an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution for edge, VDI, and general virtualization workloads.

Create a multicloud strategy across any cloud for your workloads, applications, and data using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) services.

Run application containers in the cloud with a single command. Get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs with per-second billing.

What is HCI Appliance? StarWind offers a hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) solution for SMB & ROBO - HyperConverged Appliance, a turnkey IT infrastructure building block.

Explore Harvester, SUSE's hyperconverged infrastructure solution, to streamline your virtual machine and Kubernetes workloads. Discover cost-effective HCI systems for a modern cloud-native environment.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

Connect cloud intelligence to your edge devices with Azure IoT Edge, a comprehensive service that deploys artificial intelligence and custom logic to IoT devices.

Documentation and resources for NetApp HCI. Learn how how to install, deploy and maintain NetApp HCI.

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server.

Simplify and extend your VMware environment with Dell VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances. Streamline your IT operations and lower costs.

Protect your data with Azure Sphere, a turnkey IoT device security and IoT platform solution for intelligent edge devices and microcontrollers.

Huawei FusionCube HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution that integrates computing, storage, network, and management. Discover it now!

Scale Computing's highly-automated edge infrastructure, virtualization platform, & hyperconverged solutions can handle all of your IT infrastructure needs.

Learn about Azure Virtual Network. Create your own private network in the cloud. View features and build a hybrid IT infrastructure you can control.

VMware Hyper-Converged Software: Powering the industry's largest hyper-converged infrastructure ecosystem

Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

Use Azure FXT Edge Filer as a caching layer for read-intensive high-performance computing (HPC) tasks.

Simplify hybrid cloud management with HPE Synergy platform, a composable infrastructure solution for managing compute, storage and networking

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

Learn about how Azure confidential computing protects data in use and learn ways to build confidential workloads in the cloud.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Manage billions of IoT devices with Azure IoT Hub, a cloud platform that lets you easily connect, monitor, provision, and configure IoT devices.

Bring your own containers and deploy to App Service as a web app running on Linux in seconds using Web App for Containers feature of Azure App Service.

Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

Run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications in the cloud—without any code change.

Make autoscaling your VMs easier with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Run thousands of virtual machines in minutes based on customizable metrics.

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

Build, manage, and monitor all your apps in Microsoft Azure Portal. A single, unified hub built for you, your team, and your projects.

Experience high-performance software-defined block storage with DataCore SANsymphony. Software-defined storage for SAN and HCI environments.

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.

Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell.

Discover Azure Data Factory, the easiest cloud-based hybrid data integration service and solution at an enterprise scale. Build data factories without the need to code.

Azure Lab Services provides secure, sharable virtual labs in the cloud with on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines.

Learn how to use Azure StorSimple, an integrated storage solution that manages storage tasks between on-premises devices and Azure cloud storage.

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

Azure Virtual Desktop combines the scale, security, and cost benefits of Azure and Microsoft 365 for a secure remote desktop from virtually anywhere.

Simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime. We help organizations store, protect, and use their data at and from the edge.

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

Build apps faster and scale automatically on Azure SQL Database, the intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database.

Built on the proven analytical engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade data modeling in the cloud.

Reach wider audiences on the devices they use with cloud video streaming, encoding, and indexing services from Azure Media Services.

Azure Blob storage provides scalable, cost-efficient object storage in the cloud. Store and access unstructured data for your most demanding workloads.

Learn about Azure Content Delivery Network, a secure and reliable global content delivery and acceleration solution.

Lower TCO. Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the HA/DR and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure.

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

Keep connected with Azure Service Bus, a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds.

Use the Azure Migrate hub of cloud migration tools and services to assess your current workloads and plan and implement your migration to Azure.

The right hybrid cloud strategy is powered by server solutions that enable workload mobility across your infrastructure

Protect against ransomware with a centralized cloud backup service and solution.

Learn about Azure Cloud Services, which helps you deploy and scale powerful cloud applications and APIs. Supports Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and more.

Azure Archive Storage provides a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage and data management for rarely accessed data.

Learn how Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery integrate to provide an end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solution with unlimited scale.

Manage, deploy, and patch your domain controllers in the cloud with Microsoft Entra Domain Services (formerly Azure Active Directory Domain Services).

Get HDInsight, an open-source analytics service that runs Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and more. Integrate HDInsight with big data processing by Azure for even more insights.

Combine compute, block storage, and file storage in a single comprehensive and adaptable software-defined infrastructure.

Protect, monitor, and report on your Azure Virtual Network resources using Azure Firewall, a cloud-native network security and analytics solution.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

Build, manage, and deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or Service Catalog with Azure Managed Applications.

Learn about Azure Web Application Firewall, a firewall service that helps improve web app security.

Enjoy fast, private cloud connections—including MPLS VPN connections—between Azure and on-premises datacenters with Azure ExpressRoute.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development. Start building applications with a free trial.

Learn about Azure Event Hubs, a managed service that can ingest and process massive data streams from websites, apps, or devices.

An open, massively scalable, software-defined storage system that efficiently manages petabytes of data.

Platform teams use Rafay’s PaaS to help developers and data scientists deploy CPU-based and GPU-based workloads in data centers, public clouds, or at the edge.

Azure Quantum is a Microsoft Azure service that you can use to run quantum computing programs problems in the cloud.

Low-touch virtual infrastructure with LXD at any scale. Built on top of Linux containers, LXD offers a unified user experience in managing system containers, virtual machines and clusters. Easily configurable, flexible and secure way to run your workloads.

Create event-driven, scalable serverless applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, or PowerShell with the Azure Functions app— a serverless computing service.

Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud.

Store data of any size, shape, and speed with Azure Data Lake. Power your big data analytics, develop massively parallel programs, and scale with future growth.

Learn about Azure Batch, a Microsoft cloud computing service for running large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs.

FlexPod is a secure, smart, sustainable, hybrid platform engineered to transform infrastructure and operations. FlexPod unites innovative compute, storage, networking, and management to help customers accelerate the delivery of modern workloads and future-proof their environments.

Azure Policy is a service in Azure, that you use to create, assign and, manage policy definitions in your Azure environment.

Try Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build reliable and intelligent applications for your organization. Explore open-source PostgreSQL database.

Learn how to get started with the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) to create and manage Azure resources — explore guides, tutorials, samples, articles, and more.

With Azure SignalR Service, adding real-time communications to your web application is as simple as provisioning a service.

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks delivers secure persistent storage resources for your Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift container environments.

Learn about the many Hybrid Cloud benefits and Advantages that make a Hybrid Solution so Compelling to so many Businesses | Learn More with Rackspace

Merge new levels of simplicity and flexibility with NetApp® ONTAP® unified storage operating system. Eliminate data silos, power your data and simplify your hybrid multicloud. Test-drive ONTAP Unified Storage OS today.

A browser-based shell experience in the cloud that’s maintained by Microsoft to manage Azure resources with popular command-line tools and programming languages

Sell high growth, high margin IaaS, PaaS and XaaS. Build, manage & scale your successful cloud services business. Get started today.

Azure Advisor is a recommendation service that analyzes your configurations and usage, then helps you follow Azure best practices to optimize your deployments.

Modernize your data center while reducing energy consumption with FlashStack—simple, sustainable, hybrid-cloud infrastructure from Cisco and Pure Storage.

Identify, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on-prem, in your cloud or containerized infrastructure in a unified view

Arcserve UDP enables unified data protection by delivering robust backup options, advanced data restoration capabilities, and disaster recovery (DR) features.

Simplify your datacenter and IT management for increased agility and performance with Microsoft System Center 2022.

Connect business offices, retail locations, and sites securely with Virtual WAN, a unified wide-area network portal powered by Azure and the Microsoft global network.

Manage virtual machines and Kubernetes – on-premises, at the edge, or air-gapped – with our flexible platform that reduces ops cost and accelerates delivery of revenue-generating apps.

Simplify your infrastructure with cloud computing solutions from Akamai (formerly Linode). Develop, deploy, and scale faster and easier.

The XtremeLabs Marketplace is now open! Purchase labs for Microsoft and other technology partners, instructor-led training courses, and integrated course materials. XtremeLabs builds award-winning products for popular technologies including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, CompTIA, VMware, cybersecurity, and many others.

Fully-managed enterprise edge cloud services - compute, networking, storage and more - designed for service providers and the modern enterprise.

Learn about 3PAR StoreServ, AI-powered to deliver enterprise class, Tier-1 all-flash array data storage solutions that provide unmatched agility and efficiency.

InfoScale 8.0.2   Veritas InfoScale is a software-defined infrastructure solution that is integrated directly with applications to provide high availability and disaster recovery for critical business services, including databases, customer applications and multitiered business services. It delivers a common availability platform that supports physical, virtual, and all major public cloud environments, providing the flexibility to optimize availability for any platform based on business requirements.   To learn more about InfoScale and what it can do for you, please visit our InfoScale product page: https://www.veritas.com/availability/infoscale   What’s new in InfoScale 8.0.2   With this release, InfoScale expands on Veritas’ decades-long position as the leader in this space. InfoScale 8.0.2 introduces significant security and usability improvements while simultaneously expanding our platform support to include the latest and most widely adopted hyper-converged and multi-cloud environments.    Expanded cloud support – Oracle Cloud, AWS VMC, Google Cloud GCVE, AWS MultAttach, Azure Shared Disk, Azure Managed Identity, better support for VVR stretch clusters Enhanced security – Secure Boot support (Linux), Windows Volume Encryption, SecureFS ransomware protection, support for the latest updates to OS, database and virtualization platforms Improved ease of use – simplified deployment using Ansible templates and native CPI installers, VIOM improvements for ransomware protection and VVR, Windows wizards for shared-storage configuration in cloud Core functionality enhancements – Support S3 target, OpenStack Manila and Cinder support, improved DMP performance (FPIN), NVMe fencing (AFA), FSS resync improvements   See Release Notes for details

This article provides an introduction to Spark in HDInsight and the different scenarios in which you can use Spark cluster in HDInsight.

Power branch, WAN and security with a secure SD-WAN as the foundational component for architecting a secure access service edge (SASE).

Optimize your hybrid cloud strategy with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). Span on-premises and cloud storage for intelligent data management, unlocking insights across environments.

Try Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure now and get a native, cost-effective, secure and enterprise-ready Azure backup solution.