Cloud Solutions

End-to-End Management

Only Microsoft’s private cloud uses in-depth knowledge to manage applications, employing orchestration and automation to enable the complete end-to-end service management your business depends on. With Microsoft, your applications that deliver the business value drive the resources - including virtual machines - not the other way around. Watch Garth Fort General Manager, Management and Security, Microsoft Server and Tools Division, talk about management with cloud power.

Comprehensive Approach

Microsoft takes a comprehensive approach that puts our customers’ needs ahead of any particular technology. A Microsoft private cloud uniquely helps bring IT together and works well with other pieces of your infrastructure, including:

• Multiple vendor hypervisors
• Cross Platforms and Frameworks
• 3rd party tools and Infrastructure

Flexibility and Control

Microsoft provides common management, identity, and development tools that work across the “hybrid cloud” – the combination of private and public cloud environments. This gives you the control and empowerment to build and run an application on whatever cloud will deliver your business the greatest value.

Comprehensive Approach

Microsoft takes a comprehensive approach that puts our customers’ needs ahead of any particular technology. Here’s where we stand:

• Operating system: MS approach enables customers to run Windows and multiple other operating systems.
• Hypervisor: In addition to Hyper-V, the MS approach provides mutli-vendor hypervisor support.
• Platforms and frameworks: Microsoft supports multiple frameworks including .NET, Java, PHP, and others

There are lots of cloud solution providers out there, but Microsoft provides the most comprehensive cloud solutions, on Earth! Here’s where the competition stands:

Microsoft provides the most comprehensive approach to cloud computing, so that you can harness the full power of the cloud on your terms. Whether in your datacenter, with a service provider, or from Microsoft’s datacenters – and whether in a private cloud, public cloud, or software as a service environment – Microsoft provides the flexibility and control to consume IT as a Service whichever way best meets your unique business needs.

Here’s how we’re different. Microsoft helps ensure your path to the future by providing familiar and consistent technologies for cloud computing. Only Microsoft delivers cloud computing across public and private cloud environments with shared components – identity, management, and development tools – to ensure that the investments you make today move you ahead in the future.

Learn more at Microsoft Cloud Advantage