Cloud Solutions

IT Agility

Private cloud technology accelerates your time-to-market and empowers your team to respond quickly to changing business needs. With a private cloud from Microsoft, you’ll also be able to harness the full power of the Windows Azure public cloud platform, for additional scale and efficiency whenever you need it.

Elasticity

Increase and decrease resource use with a wave of your hand through self-service, automation, and private cloud infrastructure. Who’s in charge? You are.

End-to-End Management

Put IT in the command center. Cloud power means management across physical and virtual, on premises and off premises cloud environments and deep into the applications themselves – all from a single pane of glass. Watch Garth Fort General Manager, Management and Security, Microsoft Server and Tools Division, talk about management with cloud power.

IT Datacenter Efficiency

Cloud power means driving down operation costs by automating the management of datacenter resources and knowing exactly which resources were used where.

Implementation Costs

With so many people talking about the benefits of private cloud, one of the questions on your mind must be – what’s it all going to cost? With Private cloud, Microsoft has put a lot of thought into helping you reduce both your opex and your capex!

Microsoft provides a familiar and consistent platform across traditional, private and public cloud environments, so that you can leverage the investments and skill sets you already have, while Microsoft’s identity (Active Directory), management (System Center) and developer (.Net and Visual Studio) technologies span across traditional, private and public cloud environments, future proofing your current investments as cloud computing evolves.

Built on Windows Server, Hyper-V and System Center, Microsoft’s private cloud architecture is up to one-third* the cost of a comparable offering from other vendors.

*Based on web store list prices. See comparison at www.microsoft.com/VMwarecompare

There are lots of cloud solutions providers out there, but only Microsoft is providing a full, comprehensive, end-to-end cloud computing solution. Here’s where the competition stands:

There are multiple cloud solution providers out there, but only Microsoft is providing a full, comprehensive, end-to-end cloud computing solution so that you can harness the full power of the cloud on your terms.

Here’s how Microsoft Private Cloud solutions are different.

Microsoft provides a familiar and consistent platform across traditional, private and public cloud environments, so that you can leverage investments and skill sets you already have, while taking advantage of the new value the cloud provides.

Microsoft solutions for private cloud manage across heterogeneous physical and virtual environments, standardize datacenter processes and provide deep insight into key business applications, so that you can manage services from End to End. With Microsoft solutions for private cloud, you’ll also have the flexibility and control to harness the full power of the Windows Azure public cloud platform, through powerful identity, developer and management tools that span across private and public cloud environments for additional scale and efficiency whenever you need it.

Microsoft is also bringing the power of Windows Azure to the private cloud with the Windows Azure Platform Appliance, a turnkey cloud platform that service providers, large enterprises and governments can deploy in their own datacenter, across hundreds to thousands of servers. WAPA will deliver the power of the Windows Azure Platform to your datacenter.

Learn more at Microsoft Cloud Advantage