How Microsoft resolved the continuity challenge in their Cloud implementation

1. The Windows Azure Platform: Cloud Computing with choice and low risks Riccardo Sponza Technical Evangelism Manager Microsoft Italia riccardo.sponza@microsoft.com

2. How We View Cloud Fundamentals Scale Out Automated Service Management High Availability Multi-Tenancy Considerations Off Premises On Premises Location Homogeneous Heterogeneous Infrastructure CapEx OpEx Business model Own Lease/Rent Ownership Self Third Party Management

3. The Windows Azure Platform Developer Experience Web and clouds Third party cloud Web applications Use existing skills and tools. Compute Storage Management Management Relational data Connectivity Access control On-premises LOB Applications Composite applications

4. Solving Complexities Development needs What we offer How this is unique Security and control Available Efficient Interoperable On-demand Ubiquitous Compute APP Services Management Virtualized computation Network Storage Storage services State-of-the-art data centers

5. TCO Analysis of LOB & Consumer App Consumer e-commerce application Small LOB application Seasonal peak and “spiky” capacity demand Over 100 on premises physical servers High transactions, 24-hour data synchronization Persistent up time and high availability 20% 68% $14K $17K $4M $12M Windows Azure Platform On Premises Windows Azure Platform On Premises Lower TCO realized by automatedservice management Lower TCO realized with dynamic scaling

6. Windows Azure Platform Value Efficiency Simplicity Use existing skills Simple model Lower costs Deployment flexibility Focus Agility Applicationdevelopment Revenue opportunities Respond quickly Grow customer base

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10. Unified purchasing through EA

11. Introduction to volumediscount

12. Low barrier to entry and flexibility

14. Windows Azure Platform Roadmap Rich Service Templates Multiple Geo Locations Multiple Languages Full Trust Active Directory and Web ID Relational & Virtualized Database Auto DB Management Simple Service Templates One Geo ASP.NET Medium Trust Automated Service Management Service Bus, Access Control Admin Mode/VM Deployment Geo Replication & On Premises Systems Center Integration Enterprise ID Federation Distributed Queries & CLR Analytics & reporting Data Synch (DataHub) Commercial release CTP Future Web 2.0 Partners Enterprise