All the Benefits of Azure While Staying On-Prem

About this event

This webinar explores how organisations can get all the benefits of Azure while keeping workloads on-premises.

Attendees will discover how Azure Arc enables unified management, monitoring, security, and governance across hybrid environments, improving agility, efficiency, and cost control without needing full cloud migration.

Agenda

1. Welcome & Introduction

• Introduce speakers and webinar objectives
• Set the context: challenges of managing hybrid environments
• Why hybrid management is critical for modern IT

2. The Power of Hybrid Cloud Management

• Benefits of hybrid cloud strategy
• Common pain points with on-prem + cloud management
• How hybrid operations drive agility and efficiency

3. Introducing Azure Arc

• Overview of Azure Arc capabilities
• Connecting servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases to Azure
• Centralized management and governance across hybrid environments

4. Unified Management & Monitoring

• Using Azure Arc to monitor servers, clusters, and apps
• Insights via Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and dashboards
• Simplifying operational visibility and troubleshooting

5. Security & Governance

• Applying Azure Policies and RBAC to on-prem resources via Arc
• Ensuring compliance across hybrid environments
• Automating security and governance without moving workloads

6. Extending Azure Services On-Prem

• Deploying Azure services like Azure SQL Managed Instance or PostgreSQL Hyperscale on-prem
• Benefits of cloud consistency for apps and data
• Use cases: Dev/Test, high-availability, and modernization

7. Cost Optimization & Efficiency

• Tracking resource usage across on-prem and cloud
• Optimizing workloads for performance and cost
• How hybrid management reduces complexity and overhead