Your on-premises kept, your cloud reach added.
You keep what runs perfectly well in your own racks, and move to Azure only what cannot sensibly live there. Arc puts your servers, SQL, Kubernetes and VMware under the same policy, patching and access as the cloud side. Bring us in to design it, onboard it, or hold the line once it is live.
What a hybrid engagement covers.
We bring your on-premises kit under the same governance, monitoring and access as your Azure side, and decide honestly which workloads belong in your racks and which are worth moving to the cloud.
One inventory across on-premises and cloud.
Arc brings your on-premises servers, SQL, Kubernetes and VMware up next to the Azure resources you already have, in one list with the same names and tags. You stop reconciling two inventories to answer a routine audit question.
The same rules across on-premises and cloud.
Azure Policy reaches through Arc to hold your on-premises servers to the rules your cloud already follows, and Defender for Cloud scores both against one baseline. Patch state and configuration drift report into a single place your security and operations teams can act on, rather than a manually maintained document.
One place for logs, metrics and alerts.
Logs and metrics from your own hosts, SQL and the Azure side collect in one Log Analytics workspace, with Azure Monitor raising the alerts. During an incident your team sees at once whether the problem is in the datacentre or the cloud, so they can start fixing it sooner.
What stays on-premises, and what belongs in Azure.
Arc is the management layer, not the network, and not a reason to move a workload that runs well where it is. A line-of-business app pinned to one Windows Server version, data that must stay in the country, or a latency-sensitive service: those stay in your racks and are governed there. What genuinely belongs in Azure, we connect with the right networking. Steady low-latency traffic points to ExpressRoute; management traffic alone is usually fine on a site-to-site VPN. For Hyper-V workloads that need a Microsoft-supported on-premises platform, Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) is an option.
Your on-premises Active Directory stays put and joins to Entra through Connect or Cloud Sync, so conditional access governs both sides from one set of rules.
Keep what you own. Govern it like the cloud.
You have already paid for your own equipment, so we leave it where it is unless there is a real reason to move it. The cost is not the equipment itself; it is governing it by hand while the cloud side runs to enforced policy. What an auditor flags is one side proving its rules and the other vouching for them off a spreadsheet.
Arc closes that gap without uprooting anything. Your own servers and SQL come under Azure Policy alongside your cloud resources, your Active Directory stays exactly where it is with Entra governing access across both, and patch state, drift and security posture report into one place your IT lead can present to the board.
What changes for the people running it
- One place to triage. A SQL alert in your datacentre and a VM alert in Azure both surface where your on-call already looks.
- One patching picture. Azure Update Manager holds both sides to the same compliance, with the exceptions written down where they apply.
- One answer on access. Privileged access runs through Entra, whoever is asking and wherever the box physically sits.
What this engagement gives you.
Keep your own equipment, governed like the cloud.
You move nothing to get cloud-grade control over it. The servers you own stay in place and come under the same policy as your Azure side, with no duplicate cloud copy.
One reliable answer on what you run.
Answering what you run and whether it is patched no longer means days of reconciling two inventories. Your cloud resources and your own kit sit in one inventory, queried the same way, so the answer is ready before the meeting rather than compiled afterwards.
Governance you can prove on both sides.
In the cloud, Azure Policy enforces the rule and records that it held. On your own servers the same rule too often lives only in a document. Through Arc it becomes a real assignment, so a reviewer reads both sides from evidence rather than taking the datacentre on trust.
A senior engineer reviews your environment with your team and documents it clearly.
We look at your Azure side, your own hosts and SQL, how Active Directory and Entra link up, whatever Arc already touches, and how policy holds across both. We advise which workloads belong in your racks and which belong in Azure, then provide a report with the proposed design and a plan that addresses the highest-risk changes first.
- Scope
- Set with you on the first call, and priced before any work starts.
- Deliverables
- A hybrid design and a governance baseline you can hand to whoever signs it off. We onboard Arc, manage the ongoing governance, or both, depending on the agreed scope.
- Continuity
- The engineer who runs the review continues into the delivery, so no time is lost handing over to a new team.
Hybrid cloud is one piece. We look after the whole.
Under one agreement, the estate is watched, maintained and documented as a single thing, by the team behind this page.
…and everything between.
Tell us what you run, on both sides.
A rough count of your own servers, the Azure side as you understand it, the line-of-business apps that are staying put, and whatever deadline is behind the call. The engineer who would deliver the work is involved from the first conversation.
