Intel & Microsoft have joined hands to scale up of servers using Xeon 6 CPUs.
Press Release: Azure Local is the foundation for Microsoft’s Sovereign Private Cloud, allowing organizations to run cloud-consistent infrastructure on hardware they own and operate within their sovereign boundary. It supports deployments across connected, intermittently connected, or fully disconnected environments. With Azure Local disconnected operations, customers retain the ability to apply policy enforcement, role-based access control, auditing, and compliance configuration locally, allowing them control over how infrastructure is configured, secured, and updated regardless of public cloud connectivity.
Azure Local is available today with validated compute and enterprise storage platforms from partners, including DataON, Dell Technologies, Everpure, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Lenovo, and NetApp, allowing organizations to integrate existing Storage Area Networks (SAN) and preserve prior investments while allowing compute and storage resources to scale independently within their sovereign environment.
At the silicon level, Intel Xeon 6 processors provide the compute foundation for the platform. Built for the density and performance demands of modern enterprise workloads, Xeon 6 also brings built-in AI acceleration with Intel AMX, meaning organizations running inference or generative AI workloads within their sovereign environment do not need to introduce separate, specialized infrastructure to do so.
Together, Azure Local, validated compute and enterprise storage platforms, accelerated computing platforms, and underlying silicon can provide a datacenter-scale stack that supports sovereign infrastructure deployments while helping ensure data, models, and execution remain within customer-controlled environments.
Azure Local was built to meet customers where their requirements are, whether that means strict data residency, disconnected operations, regulated workloads, or AI running close to where data is generated. As these requirements evolve across regulated industries and governments worldwide, Sovereign Private Cloud deployments can expand from a single node at the edge to large enterprise-scale datacenter environments, running on hardware that organizations own and operate, with consistent lifecycle management through Azure.
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