News Summary

• Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there.
• Cisco will not offer a direct replacement for the product, but “does encourage customers to evaluate alternative HCI solutions with Cisco Compute” A Cisco spokesperson referred The Register to a June 16 Microsoft blog post as the reason for its decision to quit Azure Local.
• In that post, Microsoft explains that it has removed the option to run Azure Local on “Validated Nodes”