Educator Grants and Offerings for Azure Cloud

1. Azure Cloud

3. Azure

4. Nearly 50 million Office
Online users
Office for iOS has been
downloaded over 80M times

5. Azure compute regions

6. Azure compute regions

7. Azure Site Recovery: Protect VMWare and Physical Servers
in Public Preview
Azure Backup Generally Available
Azure API Management Premium simplifies high availability and
massive scale for APIs
ExpressRoute for Office 365
Azure Active Directory Dynamic Membership For Groups
Automatic Password Change for Social Media Shared Accounts
Compute-Intensive A10 and A11 Virtual Machine Instances
Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone support for Gateway
and Remote Resources
Informatica Cloud Agent availability in Linux and Windows Virtual
Machines
Azure DocumentDB Hadoop Connector
Azure HDInsight support for more VM sizes
Enterprise-Grade Array-Based Replication and Disaster Recovery

8. Customer VMs
are on Linux
New Azure customer
subscriptions/month
SQL databases
in Azure
Storage objects
in Azure
Developers registered
with Visual Studio Online
Azure Active
Directory Users
Azure momentum

9.  Using the best tools for the job
 Leveraging your existing skills/code/investments
 Deploying and integrating with multiple clouds
Flexibility means…

10. Other tools
(Eclipse, Xcode, Sublime, IntelliJ, etc)
Visual Studio Family
Best-in-class tools for every developer
Agile planning + collaboration tools
Source Control repositories
Bug and work item tracking
Continuous integration builds
Load testing
Application performance monitoring
Available on-premises with TFS
Crash analytics
Free for up to 5 users
Most complete developer IDE Code optimized editor

11. AWS Educate Azure in DreamSparkStudents
Educators
Research AWS Research Grants
Educator Grant
MSR Azure Grants
AWS Educate (private use)
AWS Grants for Educators (in-class use)
http://www.windowsazure.com/education

12. Cloud offering for Students

13. Student Cloud learning at a glance
Azure in Dreamspark
MS
Account
DS
Account
Access to services
 Website
 MySQL Database
 Visual Studio Online
 Application Insights
4 out of 43 services available
Edu Materials on MVA and Ch9
Access to Technet Virtual Labs
Azure
Portal
Stop services
when
maxed out

14. How does our Student Cloud Offer compare
Azure Student
Offer
AWS Educate Google Cloud
Free Trial
Services 4 of 43 7 of 49 All (some usage
limits)
Credit Unlimited $35/yr direct
$100/yr at
member schools
$300 one time
Duration Annual while
enrolled
Annual while
enrolled
60 days
Credit Card
Required?
No Yes Yes
Phone
Verification
Required?
Yes, via SMS Yes, via Voice Yes, via SMS
What Happens
When Maxed
Out?
Suspended until
end of month
Credit card
charged
Convert or lose
Azure Student Offer Services
 Web Apps
 VSO
 Application Insights
 MySQL
AWS Educate Services
 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
 Amazon CloudFront
 Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2
limited)
 Amazon SimpleDB Service (Amazon
SimpleDB) Amazon Relational Database
Service (Amazon RDS)
 Amazon ElasticMapReduce

15. Cloud offering for Educators
(for in class use)

16. Teaching cloud at a glance
Azure Educator Grant
Course and students
registration
Educator:
$250/month for 12 months
Student:
$100/month for 6 months
43 out of 43
services available
Edu Materials on MVA and Ch9
Access to Technet Virtual Labs

17. Educators Registration proces (for in class use) Collected Data
Educator Grant
 First Name
 Last Name
 E-mail
 Country
 Institution Name
 Course Name
 Course Description
 Course Start Date
 # of Students
 Course URL
 Faculty URL
 Course Syllabus
 University ID

18. Educators Offering (for in class use)
Azure Educator Grant
$250/month – for educator (for 12 months)
$100/month account – for student (for 6 month)
7 out of 49 AWS vs 43 out of 43 Azure
services are available for Educators (in class use)

19. Cloud offering for Research

20. Research Offering
MSR Grant
Grant Size $ depends on project.
Special Grant category for:
 Machine Learning
 Climate Data
 Ebola Research
 Food Resilience

21. Research Registration proces
MSR Grant
 1st step – On site application
 Waiting for the application review
# of clicks: 1
# of fields to fill in: 13
Bi-monthly deadlines for submitting grant applications.
Universities and non-profit Research Labs can apply.
Grant is for one year.

22. Azure MarketPlace
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/
Azure MarketPlace Data
http://datamarket.azure.com/browse/Data
Azure SaaS Application
http://datamarket.azure.com/browse/applications