These are the slides I presented at CloudSeminar Middlesborough on 28th January 2010

1. Microsoft And The CloudSimon DaviesMicrosoftsdavies@microsoft.comhttp://blogs.msdn.com/simondavies

3. Cloud offerings

4. What is the cloud being used for?

6. + Services Software Consistent, seamless experiences across multiple PCs and devices Choice of on-premise, partner-hosted or Microsoft-hosted delivery Federation between enterprises and cloud services Composition of multiple applications and services

7. Microsoft Cloud Services Applications Windows Azure Platform AppFabric

8. Windows Azure Platform

9. Windows Azure Platform Compute: Virtualized compute environment based on Windows Server Storage: Durable, scalable, & available storage Management: Automated, model-driven management of the service Database:Relational processing for structured/unstructured data AppFabric Service Bus: General purpose application bus Access Control: Rules-driven, claims-based access control

10. Windows Azure In One Picture Business Portal Developer Portal REST Service Management Service Customer Code … … Runtime API Storage Cluster VS Tools Compute Cluster … WA SDK WA Setup REST Microsoft Datacenters Desktop Cloud VM

13. Storage Blobs Small to very large files,BlockBlobs, Page Blobs (random readrites), Snapshots, Leases. Drives CDN Custom domains Tables Partitioned, dynamic schema, entity sets Queues FIFO –like persisted storage for inter process communication

15. Highly symmetrical

16. Highly scaled

18. Symmetry w/ on-premises database platform

19. Automatic high-availability and fault-tolerance

20. Automated DB maintenance (infrastructure)

21. Simple, flexible pricing – “pay as you grow”SQL Server Report Server (on-premises) T-SQL (TDS) T-SQL (TDS) SQL Azure Database

22. Windows Azure Platform Consumption Prices Pay as you go and grow for only what you use when you use it Elastic, scalable, secure, & highly available automated service platform Highly available, scalable, and self managed distributed database service $9.99/month(up to 1 GB DB/month) Compute Web Edition Per service hour Per database/month $0.12/hour + Variable Instance Sizes Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus & Access Control Scalable, automated, highly available services for secure connectivity Business Edition Storage Access Control Service Bus $99.99/month(up to 10 GB DB/month) $3.99/month Per GB stored & transactions Per database/month $0.015/10k Message Operations Per Message Operation Per Connection $0.15 GB/month $0.01/10K transactions Prices shown in USD only International prices are available

23. Some examples of cloud workloads

24. Case Studies RiskMetrics – financial simulations for portfolio risk analysis Dominos Pizza – peak load provision on Windows Azure TicketDirect – ticketing services for venues in Australia and New Zealand

25. New Services in the cloud

27. Observations Cloud computing likely to be business led or driven Not necessarily about cost saving BUT maybe about cost avoidance Hard to predict costs BUT opportunity to link them to business value Perception of what scalability is changes in the cloud Capacity planning is no longer an offline activity Many issues remain BUT most organisations have opportunities

28. Summary Software + Services Windows Azure Platform available now Opportunity to get started now

29. Resources Windows Azure Website http://www.windowsazure.com Windows Azure Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure UK Azure Community: http://ukazure.ning.com/ Case studies: http://tinyurl.com/yc9rneb

30. Thank You