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“The cloud and IT as a Service … enables customers to focus on the things that are
really important and transformational to their business.”
— Bob Muglia,
President, Microsoft Server and Tools Business
TRANSFORM THE ROLE OF IT TODAY WITH CLOUD COMPUTING
Focus More on Adding Real Value to Your Business
Cloud computing enables businesses of all sizes to deliver IT as a Service, offering
new possibilities to focus more on business success and less on operational costs
and maintenance.
15
About every 15 years we see a major transformation in the industry. First there
was the advent of the PC, then the Internet, and now the cloud.
“We’re moving in a world where we have enough computing and we have enough data
and that’s really where the cloud aspect comes into play ... where we can build
an intelligent assistant that will anticipate the things you want to do.”
— Dan Reed,
Corporate Vice President,
Technology Policy and Strategy and the eXtreme Computing Group
GET READY FOR THE NEW WORLD OF SMART CLIENTS AND CLOUD COMPUTING
The New World of Interconnected Devices and Cloud Services
Learn how the upcoming generation of ubiquitous smart devices combined with the
vast computing power of the cloud will open new doors of business opportunity and
innovation.
$500,000,000
Each of our big data centers costs about half a billion dollars and is 10–20 times
the size of a football field.
“I think 20, 30 years from now … we're going to look back on this and realize that
we were at the cusp of defining the next generation of computing.”
— Chris Capossela,
Senior Vice President,
Microsoft Office Division
CUSTOMIZE HOW MUCH CLOUD YOU USE AND WHAT YOU DO WITH IT
Cloud Productivity on Your Terms
Build your next generation of productivity solutions to meet the needs of your business
and end users, not your data center.
“Everyone can participate, independent of their device. The tools are accessible
to people with Windows computers … Macintosh users … and people with Linux machines.”
— Stefan Jensen,
Head of Group, Information Services,
European Environment Agency
ENABLE A MASSIVELY SCALABLE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
The EEA Brings Revolutionary Data to Citizens
The European Environment Agency (EEA) collects and distributes environmental information
across 32 countries.
600
Gathering data from a network of 600 partner organizations, the EEA informs almost
600 million citizens and encourages them to share their own observations.
I AM NOT CONSTRAINED BY BARRIERS, BORDERS, OR GRAVITY
Open the door to new IT capabilities and lower costs. Whether you build your own private cloud or opt for a hosted solution, the private cloud lets you harness the power of cloud computing. Pool computing resources, automate management, and improve scalability, provisioning, and agility.
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE
SOLUTIONS FOR THE CLOUD.
ON EARTH.
The reality of the cloud platform is that it really enables us to take the resources
that we have and apply them to some of the next set of very critical applications
and opportunities that all of our businesses have.
Tony Scott, Chief Information Officer, Microsoft
