Flexibility

You can standardize on a single set of technology and easily shift, distribute and migrate workloads across public and private clouds as your requirements change

Better management across OS and infrastructure

Applications and data can be moved between Azure Stack and Azure unchanged, for both Windows Server and Linux

Easier management of infrastructure

Whether running on the public cloud, with Rackspace or in your own on-premise private cloud, with Azure and Azure Stack, both options are available 

Turnkey private-cloud solution

With approved software/hardware combinations, Azure Stack removes the complexity of architecting older private cloud solutions