This solution was important for integration, on-premises and cloud environments. When you run these services on-premises, everything stays on-premises, and the customer has complete visibility into those services. This is because everything runs in VMs within a Hyper-V cluster registered with Azure using Azure Arc. That's what we call Azure Stack HCI in a nutshell. Now, the integration part allows us to leverage many Azure filters and manage services. For example, if we enable monitoring with the Azure monitoring agent, Log Analytics agent, etc., we can send all the data to Azure and use Azure Defender or Sentinel to analyze the data and get threat intelligence. This intelligence can be used to provide security measures through the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) center. It allows for instant creation, auto-response, and other functionalities. That's one area of integration. Another way is through managed services. Imagine your applications running in the Stack HCI cluster and the database running in Azure, perhaps as a managed service like Cosmos DB or even a simple SQL database in an Azure VM. This is another way to achieve integration. So, monitoring and security are some of the best use cases for integration. We can have multi-layered applications that include both Azure services and on-premises resources like the Hyper-V cluster.
