Get a hands-on immersive experience in learning how to extend Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted on-premises, at the edge, or in multicloud environments. Reduce implementation time with dedicated support.

Complimentary personalized development sprints for your IT team, and ready demo and proof of concept environments, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

For any customers or partners looking to gain the consistent security, observability, and governance of the Azure platform whether or not you’re running in Azure.

What does the Arc Boost Innovation Lab offer?

Implementing Arc-enabled SQL Server is a requirement.

...

Azure Arc centered PoC

Fully funded projects with direct lab environment as well as virtual / in-person engineering support with 1:1 personalized development sprints.


Nominate a project

Not ready for a full PoC project?

The Arc Boost Innovation Lab also offers ready environments to run quick demos or self-guided proof of concepts, all running on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.


Get started
Lab

Apply and join the Lab in 4 steps:

...

1. Fill out an application

...

2. Go through a comprehensive onboarding process (2-3 weeks) ?

...

3. Schedule and design the sprint

...

4. Go through the sprint with your team (1 week)

Learn more about Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server

Learn just how easy it is to implement Arc and extend Azure services to your existing SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure: in your datacenter, on the edge, or in a multicloud environment.

Take advantage of everything Arc-enabled SQL Server has to offer – like SQL Best Practice Assessment and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.


Watch video
...

Azure Arc FAQ

Azure Arc is a bridge that extends the Azure platform to help ou build applications and services with the flexibility to run across datacenters, at the edge, and in multicloud environments. Azure Arc gives you a centralized, scalable, and consistent governance and management platform that extends Azure services across on-premises and multicloud environments. 

Extend Azure capabilities to any infrastructure across multicloud, on-premises, and edge environments with Azure Arc-enabled data services.

  • Develop cloud native, operate anywhere
  • Harness data insights from cloud to edge
  • Secure and govern across environments
  • Flexibility to meet regulatory and connectivity needs

Our lab environment focuses on Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server, which extends Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure: in your datacenter, on the edge, or in a multicloud environment. It provides the ability to:

  • Manage all of your SQL estate in a single view with a fully automated technical assessment and enhanced business continuity.
  • Control and govern your entire data estate with central insights and governance with Microsoft Purview.
  • Secure all your data using Azure security, including Microsoft Defender and Azure Active Directory.

Lab Locations

Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs are located in Redmond, USA, at the heart of Microsoft’s product group expertise; San Francisco, the world's important high-tech research and development base; Munich, Germany, a hub for European partners; Shanghai, China, one of the international hubs that drives innovation and empowers the ecosystem; Kobe, Japan, the important international trade port and industrial city, and Montevideo, Uruguay, a hub for Latin American partners. Meanwhile, the online technology support of labs is available for anyone in anywhere on this planet.

Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs offer you access and facilities to build, develop, prototype, and test your solutions for your market.

...
Virtual Labs: Available anywhere in the world.
Contact Us

Our Microsoft technology experts are here to help

...

Program Managers

...

AI Engineers

...

Cloud Engineers

...

Software Engineers

...

Electrical Engineers