Microsoft Windows Azure - Questions For ISVs Presentation
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This document discusses how the Windows Azure platform can potentially improve ISV applications and business. It asks questions about whether cloud storage and compute could benefit applications and whether building a SaaS application on Azure makes sense. It then provides an overview of Azure pricing and examples of typical monthly costs for cloud storage and compute workloads. It concludes by recommending ISVs determine if their applications could benefit from Azure and do a proof of concept if so.
Microsoft Windows Azure - Questions For ISVs Presentation
- 2. Can the Windows Azure Platform Improve Your Business?Questions for ISVs NameTitleMicrosoft Corporation
- 3. Questions to AnswerCan using the Windows Azure platform improve your applications?Can you benefit from cloud storage?Can you benefit from cloud compute? Do you want to build a SaaS application?Does using the Windows Azure platform make financial sense for you?How is the platform priced?What are typical monthly costs?
- 4. Can Using the Windows Azure Platform Improve Your Applications?
- 5. Can You Benefit From Cloud Storage?SQL Azure DatabaseWindows Azure BlobsWindows Azure PlatformInternetYour ApplicationCan you store data more cheaply in the cloud?As unstructured blobs and/or relational data?Can you provide data more effectively from the cloud?Or share it across multiple copies of your application?
- 6. Can You Benefit From Cloud Storage?Things to considerTechnical issuesWill performance be good enough?For relational data, can your application work within the scalability limits of SQL Azure Database?Business issuesDo you trust cloud storage to be available?Will your customers trust cloud storage?Is it legal to store your application’s data in the cloud?Do national laws or regulations prohibit it?
- 7. Can You Benefit From Cloud Compute?InstanceInstanceWindows Azure PlatformInternetYour ApplicationCould your application use extra compute resources on demand?Is there a discrete piece of new functionality that could run in the cloud?Does your application have a frequently updated module that could run in the cloud?
- 8. Can You Benefit From Cloud Compute?Things to considerTechnical issuesCan the functionality you want to build run on Windows Azure?Can any necessary existing code be ported to Windows Azure?Can the supporting software you need run on Windows Azure?Business issuesDo you trust cloud compute to be available?Will your customers trust cloud compute?Is it legal to run your application’s code in the cloud?Do national laws or regulations prohibit it?
- 9. Do You Want to Build a SaaS Application?SaaS ApplicationDataInstancesWindows Azure PlatformInternetCustomer 1. . .Customer NCould you compete more effectively with SaaS?Are your competitors already offering a SaaS option?Could you enter a new market with a SaaS application?Can any of your existing SaaS applications benefit from running on the Windows Azure platform?
- 10. Do You Want to Build a SaaS Application?Things to considerTechnical issuesAre the elasticity, scalability, and reliability provided by Windows Azure superior to in-house or hosted data centers?Can your critical existing code be ported to Windows Azure?Can the supporting software you need run on Windows Azure?Business issuesHow will a SaaS app affect your pricing?How will a SaaS app change your sales process?Will your customers trust cloud storage?What are the legal and regulatory issues around creating a SaaS application for your market?
- 11. Does Using the Windows Azure Platform Make Financial Sense for You?
- 12. How is the Platform Priced?An abbreviated summary (in US dollars)Compute: $0.12/hour to $0.96/hour for each instance depending on instance size Blob storage: Data: $0.15/GB per monthAccess: $0.01/10,000 operationsRelational storage:$9.99/month for a database up to 1 GB$99.99/month for a database up to 10 GB Bandwidth: $0.10/GB in, $0.15/GB out
- 13. What are Typical Monthly Costs? Example: Blob cloud storageStoring and accessing one terabyte of video Assumptions:Stored in Windows Azure blobsOperations on the data: 10,000,000/monthData transfer out: 500 gigabytes/monthData transfer in: 100 gigabytes/monthCosts:Storage: $160/monthTransfer: $85/monthTotal: $245/month
- 14. What are Typical Monthly Costs? Example: Relational cloud storageStoring 10 gigabytes of customer recordsAssumptions:Stored in SQL Azure DatabaseData transfer out: 10 gigabytes/monthData transfer in: 1 gigabyte/monthCosts:Storage: $99.99/monthTransfer: $1.60/monthTotal: $101.59/month
- 15. What are Typical Monthly Costs? Example: Cloud computeA cloud reporting service add-on to an on-premises applicationAssumptions:Two medium instances ($.24/hour each) running continuouslyUsed to create 300 reports a monthEach transfers 10 gigabytes in, 0.5 gigabytes outEach stores 10 gigabytes for 1 day/month in blobsOperations on the data: 30,000,000/monthCosts:Compute: $345.60/monthStorage: $45.00/monthTransfer: $322.50/month Total: $713.10/month
- 16. SummaryCan using the Windows Azure platform improve your applications?Can you benefit from cloud storage?Can you benefit from cloud compute? Do you want to build a SaaS application?Does using the Windows Azure platform make financial sense for you?How is the platform priced?What are typical monthly costs?
- 17. Call to ActionDetermine whether your any of your existing or planned applications can benefit from using the Windows Azure platformAnd whether this is likely to make financial senseIf so, choose one, and do a proof of conceptIf the proof of concept succeeds, create a production version of the application that uses the Windows Azure platformAnd deploy it to your customersThen choose the next application . . .
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