Speaking Points:Microsoft has a comprehensive platform and set of applications that spans the client, server and cloud services tiers. Microsoft has been delivering internet services for over 15 years. Online properties comprise 15% of all users’ time online. In Xbox Live’s history, people have spent 15 billion hours on the services that more than 7 million hours per day of gaming, communicating, and accessing services and media. Microsoft is now on a 3rd generation datacenter design with cloud services offerings across all the continents. Bing is the fastest growing search engine with >2 billion queries a month. For simplicity’s sake, this diagram only includes Microsoft’s technologies but Microsoft’s success has been the result of the hundreds of thousands (over 600,000) partners building platform components and applications that address a large proportion of the world’s software needs. Particularly with Microsoft Online Services we have a large number of ISV and SI partners and Azure development ecosystem is being leveraged by Avanade/Accenture, Intuit, WiPro, and 1000s of other partners going live of january of this year! Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings are services delivered via the public internet. Microsoft’s enterprise offerings include Microsoft Online and Office but we have a number of SaaS consumer, Education and small business offerings as well. Microsoft Online Services are subscription-based, on-demand applications and hosted services, providing your end users with a consistent experience across multiple devices.The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), part of MS Online Services, delivers security-enhanced, hosted communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Exchange Online, MicrosoftSharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online. There are full IW versions as well as Deskless workers appropriate for retail and manufacturing line workers who need to communicate and collaborate but do not need high end communication and collaboration capabilities. Microsoft scales to meet your users needs. You saw examples of these in action in the previous customer example slides(starbucks, aviva, coca cola enterprises, City of Carlsbad)Exchange Hosted Services is a set of tools to help your organization protect itself from spam and malware, help satisfy retention requirements for e-discovery and compliance, encrypt data to preserve confidentiality, and maintain access to e-mail during and after emergency situations. These are provided to augment your on premises messaging solutions or are attached to our BPOS online services. Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Online provides marketing, sales, and customer service solutions deployed through Microsoft Office Outlook or an Internet browser tohelp your end users efficiently automate workflows and centralize customer information.Office Web Apps, in beta now, provides on-demand access to the Web-based version of Microsoft Office suite of applications, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. You can beta test these now via skydrive and these will release later this year. These are provided as a part of your intranet and in our msonline BPOS offerings. For instance we plan to include a more advanced version of our DW suite giving higher end DW workers such as insurance or real estate agents access to communication and collab capabilities as well as document authoring and joint collaboration via OWA. Platform as a Service (PaaS) The Windows Azure platform is a PaaS consisting of an operating system, a fully relational database, and consumable Web-based services that provide security-enhanced connectivity and federated access control for applications. As a family of on-demand services, the Windows Azure platform offers your organization a familiar development experience, on demand scalability, and reduced time to market for your applications.Windows Azure Platform – App Fabric – Compute, Storage, App deployment and Management Platform as a ServicesSQL Azure – SQL Realtional and Transactional Services via the cloud is a part of the WINDOWS Azure platformWindows Azure – Cloud Operating System which hosts Windows Azure Platform. Providing to hosters and soon enterprises that want to do their own private cloud deployments. More Azure Background http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)With IaaS, you get on-demand computing and storage to host, scale, and manage applications and services. Using Microsoft's data centers means you can scale with ease and speed to meet the infrastructure needs of your entire organization or individual departments within it, globally or locally. Take advantage of VM role, Full IIS, Remote Desktop, and familiar tools like System Center Operations Manager
Very important to emphasize that SQL Azure can stand alone as a data storage solution for ANY kind of application (front-end). Of course it can be used with Windows Azure, however, this is by NO MEANS a requirement. This is a key message in this deck.Again, point out that most early-adopting customers are using some type of hybrid data storage strategy, i.e. on-prem AND cloud, relational AND non-relational. Also, the application topology decision should really be based on the application workload…Is it chatty? Large amounts of data transferred?Code Far works with any type of code – i.e. Java, etc.. Does NOT have to be Azure or .NET