Microsoft Cloud
Enable ground-breaking IT innovation to increase business value utilizing cloud services to build next generation applications with the flexibility for how you consume and deliver IT services to increase user productivity. You have the power to steer your company in new directions, unencumbered by old constraints. With cloud computing, a new world of computing power is within your reach.
Develop and run applications on a platform that quickly scales up or down with business demands. And do it all with the skill sets and tools that your developers and IT staff already know and use every day.
Cloud Platform
Windows Azure is the cloud platform that empowers you to develop and run applications with unbounded scalability and ease-of-use. With this flexible platform you can easily scale up or down to meet the demands of your business. With the pay-for-use business model, you don’t waste money on services you won’t use. And Windows Azure allows your developers to develop and run applications quickly, while leveraging current skills to develop applications with .NET, PHP, or Java.
A Familiar Platform
Your developers don’t need to learn new tools or a new platform to harness the benefits of cloud power. With Windows Azure, you can easily move existing applications to the cloud and create new web applications and services using familiar tools.
Scalability
You are the living definition of a multi-tasker. Windows Azure gives you the agility to take advantage of multiple development tools, programming languages, automate service management, and global datacenter presence to deliver applications and services that can respond faster to customer needs. You now have the power to gain a competitive advantage and help your business reach new customers and enter new markets.
Flexibility
Your IT department is the decision maker now. Windows Azure offers the flexibility to choose where and how you manage, deploy, and store data, while you focus on business challenges and customer needs.
Private Cloud
Microsoft solutions for private cloud give you the flexibility and control to harness the power of the cloud on your terms. A private cloud from Microsoft provides end to end service management giving you deep insight about your applications and workloads so you focus more attention on delivering business value. And with your choice of a custom, pre-configured, or hosted offering, you have the power to find the private cloud solution that fits your unique business needs.
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
Microsoft Cloud Advantage
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.
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