Hybrid Cloud – Live Demo

Editor's Notes

• #3: DEPENDING ON CUSTOMER, USE THIS SLIDE TO LEVEL SET OR EDUCATETiming: 2 minutes (or 5 minutes, if educating) Key Points:Microsoft defines the cloud in three ways: Private cloud—You or a partner controls your own separate infrastructure using cloud-enabled products (on-premises or hosted by a third party).Public cloud—We manage the platform for you in our data centers.Hybrid cloud—You have a mix of the two.Microsoft’s private cloud is not the same as another vendor’s approach.Microsoft is betting on businesses’ need for hybrid cloud solutions to allow them to compete now and in the future. Script:To make sure we’re all talking about the same thing, let me define what Microsoft means by “cloud.” For Microsoft, our overarching vision is to provide a continuous cloud service for every person and every business. It harkens back to Bill Gates’ vision of “A PC on every desktop and in every home.” That grounds you in how broadly we’re thinking about the importance of the cloud. To do this, we’re taking all of the years of experience we have at running applications at Internet scale, which started with MSN in 1995 all the way to Bing and Hotmail today, and we’re combining that with our expertise in on-premises software. We're pouring all of this into three cloud concepts:Private cloud—You or a partner controls your own separate infrastructure using cloud-enabled products (on-premises or hosted by a third party). AS NEEDED:A question we sometimes hear is, “What distinguishes cloud computing from a ‘highly virtualized’ environment?” Here are the key differentiators—the powerful attributes that make cloud computing unique:Pooled resources—In a private cloud, your core resources—compute, storage, and network—are transformed into a pool. This enables dynamic provisioning of applications and services. Self-service—Once resources are pooled, you can deliver applications and resources as services. Your customers can request, configure, and manage IT services as required through an interactive portal that allows for automated provisioning.Elastic—Because resources are pooled, they can quickly be expanded or contracted through automation or workflow. This means your environment and resources can scale up or down almost instantly to meet business requirements.Usage based—With resources as services, usage can be metered so that you and your customers pay for only for the resources that actually get consumed. Private cloud adds additional control and customization. Public cloud—We manage the platform for you in our data centers.Hybrid cloud—You have a mix of the two. We’re investing heavily in the concept of hybrid cloud. By hybrid, it's not just having a deep and broad set of services and platform capabilities across public and private. It's the ability to bridge the two. The commonalities between our private and public clouds provide the real magic in Microsoft’s business cloud strategy. These commonalities of identity, virtualization, management, and application development are what makes the Microsoft platform very unique.This entire hybrid cloud picture is where we believe businesses will achieve the biggest advantage with the cloud and what we’ll be discussing today.