Alexander Ortha

📋 Biography

Alexander Ortha has been in IT for over 30 years and spent 26 of them at Microsoft, most recently as Global Black Belt for Azure Local and Azure Arc in EMEA. Hybrid cloud is his home turf: Windows Server, Hyper-V and System Center back in the day, Azure Stack later, and now Azure Local, Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop. Since late 2025 he works as an independent Cloud Solution Architect, helping customers build and run hybrid and sovereign platforms, hands-on and all the way from architecture to Infrastructure as Code and day-to-day operations. He loves sharing what he learns in the field: on his YouTube channel Azure Hybrid Insider, in his German-language Hybrid Briefing, as a speaker at ExpertsLive and CDC Germany, and in countless workshops and community sessions. If you want to talk about Azure Arc, Azure Local or how to bring the datacenter and the cloud together without losing control, just say hi.