Built alongside a Microsoft-partnered Dell team to bring Azure's cloud model on site, keeping financial-sector data inside the country rather than in a public Azure region.
Delivered by ThirtyZero's founder in senior technical and compliance roles prior to founding the company. Client names and identifying details are withheld under confidentiality.
A financial-sector client needed cloud infrastructure with the consistency and services model of Microsoft Azure, but data residency requirements meant the environment had to stay physically local rather than run in a public Azure region.
Microsoft's Azure Stack product line answers exactly this need: the same Azure control plane and services, running on hardware inside the client's own environment. Deploying it required close coordination with a Microsoft-partnered team to get the platform installed and integrated correctly.
Worked alongside a Dell team, partnered with Microsoft on the Azure Stack rollout, while based at the employer's site. Dell handled elements of the hardware and Microsoft partnership requirements; the local team handled on-site deployment and integration.
Installed and configured the locally hosted Azure Stack environment so it could deliver Azure-consistent services on infrastructure that stayed inside the country.
Brought the environment into production use for local financial-sector users, giving them an Azure-style cloud experience without moving regulated data into a public cloud region.
Financial-sector data residency requirements meant the client needed data to stay on infrastructure physically inside the country. Azure Stack delivers the same Azure services and management model as public Azure, but runs on hardware the client controls locally, which satisfied that requirement.
Dell's team, partnered with Microsoft on the Azure Stack program, handled elements of the hardware and partnership side of the deployment. The on-site deployment and integration work for the client's environment was handled from the employer's side, working alongside Dell's team rather than in place of it.
Microsoft has evolved the product line since this engagement, most recently under the Azure Local name, but the underlying need it answers has not changed. Regulated organizations that cannot put data in a public cloud region still need a way to get Azure's services on infrastructure they control, which is the same problem this deployment solved.
Yes. Data residency requirements show up across financial services, healthcare, government, and other regulated sectors. The deployment pattern, an Azure-consistent environment on locally controlled infrastructure, applies wherever public cloud residency is not an option.
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