Building on clouds Matt Deacon Chief Architectural Advisor Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd

What ISVs should know about hosting in the cloud? http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_deacon

The Cloud Maturity Model Innocence Dawning Awakened Web hosted Thin client Always Connected Multi-tenanted No software install End of upgrades Pay as you go No “standard” customer The perpetual eval Commercial models OpEx v CapEx Data Lock-In Versioning The issues ... The “outage” The security issue The data loss The SLA Customer choice Customer as a Partner Flexible commercial model Open Data model Flexible partitioning SLA Boundaries Hoster as a Service Hoster as a Partner

Web hosted

Thin client

Always Connected

Multi-tenanted

No software install

End of upgrades

Pay as you go

No “standard” customer

The perpetual eval

Commercial models

OpEx v CapEx

Data Lock-In

Versioning

The issues ...

The “outage”

The security issue

The data loss

The SLA

Customer choice

Customer as a Partner

Flexible commercial model

Open Data model

Flexible partitioning

SLA Boundaries

Hoster as a Service

Hoster as a Partner

Links Software+Service Self Assessment tool www.splussready.com Software+Service Roadmap for ISVs www.microsoft.com/hosting/ISV/default.msp Software+Service Incubation program www.microsoft.com/hosting/programs/incubationcenter.mspx Bizspark http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

Software+Service Self Assessment tool

www.splussready.com

Software+Service Roadmap for ISVs

www.microsoft.com/hosting/ISV/default.msp

Software+Service Incubation program

www.microsoft.com/hosting/programs/incubationcenter.mspx

Bizspark

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

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