Whitepaper: Microsoft Azure Stack - provides more info on key Azure Stack concepts and capabilities

Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview is now available for download

The first Technical Preview of Azure Stack is now available for download!

This Technical Preview includes these fundamental capabilities to help you deliver Azure services in your datacenter:

• Developer and IT professional experiences: Azure portal experiences for application developers and service administrators

• Unified application model: Azure Resource Manager

• Foundational services: Compute (Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Extensions), Networking (Virtual Network, Software Load Balancer, Distributed Firewall) and Storage (Blobs and Tables)

• Core services: Subscription management (identity and quotas), role-based access control, metering and audit

• Application components: Curated Azure Resource Manager templates and Azure-consistent VM extensions (such as Desired State Configuration and Docker/Linux integration) to help you jumpstart your Azure Stack efforts