ORLANDO, Florida – Microsoft tightened its embrace of the hybrid cloud world with its new Azure Arc platform that extends its Azure control plane across rival cloud provider and on-premises locations.

Microsoft equips Azure with functions for local operation and data sovereignty. However, the sovereignty promises raise questions.

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Microsoft has been steadily enabling more of its Azure services to run on other clouds, on-premises, and now, on Kubernetes clusters. On day one of its virtual Build 2021 developers conference, ...