Azure Local and disaggregated infrastructure are rewriting private cloud economics
As enterprises confront rising memory and storage costs alongside mounting pressure to run AI workloads on-premises, the fundamental architecture of the private cloud data center is changing beneath their feet — and Azure Local is emerging as a key part of that new foundation.
Digital sovereignty is accelerating the transformation. Regulated industries — from government agencies to healthcare networks to transportation operators — are no longer treating data residency and operational control as optional considerations. They are legal mandates, forcing organizations to rethink how sovereign private cloud infrastructure fits into a world that also demands AI at scale, according to Kenny Lowe (pictured, right), technical staff, cloud platforms evangelism and enablement lead at Dell Technologies Inc.
“What has worked in the past won’t necessarily work moving forward. We need to be able to right size workloads in the right way on the right platform so you’re not overpaying for the infrastructure that you’re running on,” Lowe said. “The core foundational model of the data center is shifting — shifting away a bit from hyperconverged to a more disaggregated model.”
