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R. MaxwellAzure Arc Systems Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9480-2_2

2. What Is Azure Arc?

Ramona Maxwell1  
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Redwood City, CA, USA
 

Arc – A Single Control Plane Across Multi-cloud and Hybrid Architectures

The unification of IT infrastructure management under a “single pane of glass” has been an end of the rainbow objective since the beginning of enterprise computing. The Jenga tower of interdependent resources that is created as organizations grow can be read like tree rings to examine what led to the current health of IT systems – the thin year when we didn’t have sufficient staff and nothing was documented, the fat year when many new products ...

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