Taste the Redmond: Dell strengthens its Azure Stackery

"We're going to talk about on-premises cloud with a straight face?"

It's more within your control than off premises cloud. Which you might not have noticed but seems to be a thing these days....

Stack appliances currently have a maximum of 12 nodes, not 14.

Stack currently has 3 configurations - 4, 8 and 12 nodes. You can't expand either, buy 4 nodes and run out of capacity - tough luck, you're buying (and supporting) a complete new instance with nothing shared between the new and old. Want to mix G13 and G14 servers? Tough, can't do that either. Want to federate multiple Stack clusters together - nope, that doesn't work either (even in the same datacenter). Want a highly available Azure Resource Manager? - nope, can't do that.

I honestly think Stack will be good - in about 2 years when Microsoft finish developing it...