(Stephen Parker, Senior Cloud Evangelist, 1visionOT)

I have recently talked up the importance of Azure stack to the service provider community, however I am getting a bit of a deja vue with recent news about further delays (from Q3 2016 to mid 2017) and a change of heart from “any hardware as long as it is Windows Server 2012 R2 certified to only pre-configured “in-a-box” offerings from Dell, HP and Lenovo.

There is a good article about this (http://www.crn.com.au/news/your-existing-hardware-cant-run-microsoft-azure-stack-430576)