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.

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