Microsoft Head In The Cloud Feet On The Ground 1 10 2009 Final

Heads in the Cloud,
Feet on the Ground
Peter de Haas
Online Strategy Manager
peter.dehaas@microsoft.com

Historic Computing Transformations
1980s
1990s
Today
1970s
2009+
Monolithic
Client-Server
Web
SOA
Cloud Computing and Services

New aspects in Cloud Computing
Source: Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

Economies of scale
Economies of skill

Choice Matters
“…larger companies…can be expected to pursue a hybrid approach for many years, supplying some hardware and software requirements themselves and purchasing others over the grid. One of the key challenges for corporate IT departments, in fact, lies in making the right decisions about what to hold on to and what to let go.”
- Nick Carr, ‘The Big Switch”

Platform Continuum
On-Premises
Servers
Hosted Servers
Cloud Platform
Bring your own machines, connectivity, software, etc.
Complete control
Complete responsibility
Static capabilities
Upfront capital costs for the infrastructure
Renting machines, connectivity, software
Less control
Fewer responsibilities
Lower capital costs
More flexible
Pay for fixed capacity, even if idle
Shared, multi-tenant infrastructure
Virtualized & dynamic
Scalable & available
Abstracted from the infrastructure
Higher-level services
Pay as you go

Cloud
Premises
Security & Privacy
Compliance & Regulations
Control & Customizability
Power of Choice

Choice and Flexibility
SERVER
CLOUD
COMMUNICATIONS
COLLABORATION
BUSINESS APPS
STORAGE
Active Directory
AD/Live ID
IDENTITY
PLATFORM
CLIENT

Web Applications

San Antonio Data Center

Live Services
Online Services
3rd Party
Apps & Solutions
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services
Microsoft SharePoint Services
Building Block Services
Datacenters
Networks

Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS)
Bedrijfssoftware,
aangeboden als een pakket van online services,
gehost door Microsoft, als abonnement verkocht met partners

Microsoft Online Today
Business Productivity Online Suite Reference Customers

Heads in the Cloud, Feet on the Ground
Application runs on-premise
Buy my own hardware, and manage my own data center
Application runs at a hoster
Pay someone to host my application using hardware that I specify
Application runs using cloud services
Pay someone to host my application without specifying the hardware (they promise to be “infinitely” scalable)
Application is supplied by a vendor
Pay for someone’s hosted application. Don’t care about the hardware, as long as it works.
Control
High
Low
Economy of Scale
Low
High

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